Magis Eagles keeps the crown

Sanctified Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu (SHS-AdC) completed a progression of heartbreaks with a critical continue running in the most recent day to keep the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. young women's futsal title last Feb. 10 at the University of San Carlos (USC) rec focus.

With USC experiencing the field on its way to a 7-0 record, it required simply one more accomplishment to ensure the title all around by methods for compass. In any case, SHS-AdC had distinctive considerations and immediately roared a 2-0 lead in their last transfer round diversion good manners of Mikella Tolentino in the fifteenth and Yoo Jin Kim in the eighteenth.

Andrea Badinas made it 2-1 in the 27th yet it was past the final turning point as Ateneo engineered a knockout finals as the two gatherings finished with a 7-1 record each. USC gave Ateneo a 5-2 beating in their first assembling.

Ateneo, which moreover beat USC in the finals a year back, didn't ease up in the title arrange, seething to a 2-0 lead just 12 minutes in.

Sydney Gonzalez got the opener in the fourth minute while Yoo got the second in the twelfth minute.

After the break, USC pushed for the equalizer anyway couldn't find it, while Ateneo made it 3-0 in the 31st appreciation to Andrea Alforque before Katrina Tolentino put the outcome sure in the 39th.

"The Cesafi futsal title is a sweet strategy to end the season, especially for our seniors. The gathering expected to encounter high focuses and depressed spots this school year, including losing players, neglecting to meet desires in the Aboitiz Cup and Mandaue Division meet, and changing as per another tutor," said SHS-AdC athletic boss Rico Navarro.

That incident in the Division Meet was doubly bewildering as it inferred Ateneo wouldn't in all likelihood shield the Palarong Pambansa title it won a year prior.

Navarro was accessible in those horrendous disasters and paid applause to an old amusements superstition by evading the title, believing his gathering would win.

It worked.

"They wandered up without a minute to save, with the essential preoccupation disaster to USC as an update. We're grateful for the effort of the Lady Magis Eagles, the educating staff and the parent reinforce gathering," said Navarro.