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Tennisters seek to continue UAAP dominance

With a stellar performance during last year’s UAAP season, the DLSU Green Tennisters & Lady Tennisters look to build on their momentum in the upcoming UAAP Season 76 Lawn Tennis tournament. This season, the Lady Tennisters seek to repeat their championship while the Green Tennisters aim to improve last season’s third place finish. Lady Tennisters…

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Fencers enter UAAP wars with nothing to lose

Two teams who will be raring to help defend DLSU’s UAAP General Championship in the second half of the league are the DLSU Green Fencers and Lady Fencers, who are hoping to improve from their respective third place finishes last season. “We all have to have our own contributions to the general championship kasi it…

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Woodpushers riding the tides of success

DLSU athletes are now geared up for the second and final half of UAAP Season 76. One of the teams stationed on the frontlines are the DLSU Woodpushers who racked up valuable experience during the off-season. Both the Green Woodpushers and the Lady Woodpushers now await the beginning of their UAAP campaign as they seek…

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Lady Spikers seek 4-peat; Green Spikers raring to end title drought

Perhaps one of the most respected teams in the league to date, the reigning UAAP Women’s Volleyball champions, the DLSU Lady Spikers hope to extend their dominance towards a rare four-peat. Hanging on to the volleyball championship trophy for three straight years, the Lady Spikers stunned their opponents in the previous season with a 13-1…

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Athletics standouts ready for UAAP 76

Update: The UAAP Athletics tournament will run from December 5 to 8 at DLSU-Dasmarinas. Running, leaping, and throwing may come up as simple tasks to the ordinary person. Despite being labeled as such, the DLSU Green Tracksters and Lady Tracksters take these tasks to a whole new level with athleticism that combines both power and…

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Green Batters, Softbelles hope to swing La Salle to Final Four

The most recent comeback in the World of Sports would be the 2013 World Series Champions, the Boston Red Sox. Coming from a 69 win season in 2012, they went atop their division and won the Fall Classic, a great improvement to say the least. The DLSU Green Batters and DLSU Softbelles, La Salle’s baseball…

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Greggy Yang & Adrianne Yñiguez: The pillars of La Salle’s defense

To the ordinary fan, goals are the most beautiful sight at any football match because of the combination of skills, precision and timing necessary to complete one. On the other end of the spectrum, defenders aim to outhustle and outsmart their crafty opponents to prevent them from scoring these goals. Leading the defense is no…

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May Montenegro & Rayd Orozco: Two Paths diverging on one mat

If you ask an athlete why they took up their sport, you will get different answers, varying from pursuing their passion to getting a scholarship to their dream school. But for May Montenegro and Raymond Victoria Orozco, their paths to fencing were paved by different and unlikely situations. “When I was in third year high…

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Miguel Olmos and Vanessa Borbon: Protecting the Hot Corner

The sport of baseball is not just about eye-popping offense, where the home run reigns supreme. It is also, however, a sport of defense where pitchers strike out batters at key moments or when the Third Baseman makes an outstretched diving grab then fires to first, just barely getting the out. Offense helps, but in…

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Mika Reyes & Red Christensen: Stepping into the spotlight

Volleyball season is on its way once again. As La Salle has already reclaimed the men’s and women’s basketball crown, hopes are high for the Taft-based Spikers, the Lady Spikers being the queens of the league for the past three years, and the Green Spikers committing to clinch the gold this time around. A whirlwind…