F2 Logistics delivered a win so compelling it could define its campaign in the Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference, beating Creamline in a match that boiled down to heart and nerves, 22-25, 23-25, 25-20, 25-19, 15-11, before a huge, roaring crowd at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Tuesday.
In a PVL game held for the first time at the Big Dome and marked by many deadlocks and lead exchanges in all five sets to the delight of the fans, the Cargo Movers proved steadier and fiercer, battling back from two sets down against a team that had swept its first five games in convincing fashion to crash into the semis.
That thriller of an escape did not only stretch F2 Logistics’ win run to three after dropping its first two matches but it also moved the Cargo Movers to fifth at 3-2 heading to the final stretch of the single round elims of the season-ending conference organized by Sports Vision.
Yielding the first two sets in heart-breaking fashions, the Cargo Movers struck back hard late in the third, and dominated the fourth before unloading a decisive closing 7-3 kick that ended Creamline’s run in a match it controlled early on.
Three lead changes and seven deadlocks marked the deciding frame but a Kalei Mau kill shattered the last tie at 8 and after F2 took the next point, the Cargo Movers held on to the two-point cushion they padded to four on a Shola Alvarez ace.
