Joan Doguna of the Lyceum of the Philippines University has been named the Collegiate Press Corps NCAA Player of the Week as the open spiker helped the Lady Pirates strengthen their Final Four hopes in the ongoing Season 98 women's volleyball tournament.
With Doguna being at the forefront of Lyceum, they were able to pull off a convincing win over Emilio Aguinaldo College, 23-25, 25-18, 25-23, 25-23 on Tuesday, followed by a clean sweep against San Beda University, 25-20, 25-16, 28-26 on Sunday to improve their record to 5-2 and move to third place in the ladder alongside Mapua University.
In those two games, Doguna was nothing short of impressive, scoring 18 points built on 12 attacks and six aces laced with 15 excellent digs against the Lady Generals. She followed it with a 13-point, 11-dig performance in their next game, ending the Lady Red Spikers’ semi finals hopes in the process.
With these, Doguna earned the weekly honors presented by San Miguel Corporation and Philippine Sports Commission, as well as minor sponsors MNL Kingpin, Tinapayan Festival and Jockey.
She edged out Jade Gentapa of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, KJ Dionisio of San Sebastian College-Recoletos, and Marianne Padillon of Arellano University.
“Masaya po pero hindi pa rin kami kampante, kailangan pa din namin pagtrabahuhan para makuha po namin 'yung goal namin,” she said.
("Happy, but we're still not comfortable, we still need to work so we can achieve our goal.")
Doguna and Lyceum will look to bring this momentum in the penultimate week of the elimination round as they are set to face Colegio de San Juan de Letran and University of Perpetual Help System DALTA in their final two games.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
