{"id":3814,"date":"2015-07-10T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:26:09","slug":"philippine-volleyball-team-loses-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Volleyball team loses to Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SINGAPORE<\/span><\/strong>\u2014The Philippines played its swan song in the women\u2019s volleyball tournament in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, losing to powerhouse Vietnam in straight sets, 25-16, 25-21, 25-23, on June 12.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite the encouragement of the Filipino fans who trooped to the OCBC Arena Hall 2 every game day, the Filipinas were just no match against the Vietnamese who were mechanical in the first two sets and hardly flinched when the Nationals tried to mount a comeback in the third.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines will thus end its first SEAG campaign in 10 years with a 1-2 record in women\u2019s. Vietnam and Indonesia will join the qualifiers from the other pool Thailand and host Singapore in the semi-final round.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team, at 1-1, was to face powerhouse Thailand on Sunday to cap its preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Valdez, former Ateneo volleybelle star, top scored with 11 points, while Santiago finished with 10. <strong>(inq.net) <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE\u2014The Philippines played its swan song in the women\u2019s volleyball tournament in the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, losing to powerhouse Vietnam in straight sets, 25-16, 25-21, 25-23, on June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}