STREAKY streaks – Mind-boggling this subject matter is. In case you have not noticed, the current local college sports scene has produced several winning streaks by school teams that have stretched through multiple seasons.
As a result, multiple championships also have been won by these “streaking” teams in their respective sports. Consider the following:
+ The Adamson University Lady Falcons beat the National University Lady Bulldogs via a two-game finals sweep to romp away with the 2013-14 University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) women’s softball crown for a fourth consecutive season.
So invincible were the Lady Falcons that they finished Season 76 with a lily-white 14-0 record and gained a two-to-win, thrice-to-beat advantage in the finals because of their 12-game sweep of the elimination round.
With their third “four-peat” performance in 16 seasons – and the 13th title overall in school history – the Lady Falcons now have won 48 consecutive matches dating back to 2010.
+ The University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Altas swept the Emilio Aguinaldo College Generals in the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s volleyball finals for the second year in a row to secure their fourth straight championship.
With the title victory, the Altas are now unblemished in 47 straight games since 2010.
+ The De La Salle University Lady Spikers have swept the 14-game elimination sked of the 2013-14 UAAP women’s volleyball tournament and now await the winner of the No. 2 seed National University vs. No. 3 Ateneo de Manila University stepladder series in the finals armed with a two-to-win, thrice-to-beat advantage. (The Lady Bulldogs own a twice-to-beat incentive against the Lady Eagles.)
The Lady Archers enter the finals with a 30-game winning streak. DLSU’s most recent loss came in its 2012-13 season opener against the University of Santo Tomas Tigresses, having dropped a five-setter to the Lady Tigresses.
Since the time, the Lady Spikers were victorious in their remaining 13 elimination assignments, the single-game semifinals and a two-game sweep of the Lady Eagles in the 2013 finals to annex their second titular “three-peat” (duplicating the feat of 2003-2004-2005) and the eighth UAAP crown overall in school history.
That’s 16 straight victories in Season 75. And adding the 14 consecutive triumphs it has compiled so far this season, the DLSU women’s volleyball team currently has a 30-game win skein.
Regardless of the women’s volleyball finals outcome, De La Salle University has already clinched the UAAP overall championship as it holds an insurmountable 11-point lead over 39-time titlist University of Santo Tomas.
Last campaign, DLSU snared the UAAP general championship for the first time ever, having broken a 14-year stranglehold by UST.DLSU joined the UAAP in 1986 – or six years after quitting the NCAA, where it was a founding member in 1924.
The record for the longest winning streak in Philippine college sports history still belongs to the University of Manila men’s basketball team, which won 86 straight games between 2001 and 2005 in the National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (NAASCU).
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