Tantoy Ferrer reveals coronary heart and soul in UST title run after ACL harm

UAAP Finals Recreation 3 – Dwell Updates

UST’s Tanto Ferrer raises her Finals MVP trophy after main the Growling Tigresses to their first UAAP girls’s basketball title since 2006.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web

MANILA, Philippines — Tantoy Ferrer simply proved why she was College of Santo Tomas’ coronary heart and soul.

With the Growling Tigresses trailing, Ferrer willed his workforce again as UST pulled off a dramatic 71-69 win to shatter Nationwide College’s dream of an eighth straight title on Wednesday within the UAAP Season 86 girls’s basketball match.

Ferrer gave every little thing she had in her swansong, ending with 19 factors and 14 rebounds to be hailed Finals MVP. She unleashed 9 straight factors down the stretch that paved the best way for Nikki Villasin’s title-clinching layup with 11.9 ticks to go.

“I used to be motivated as a result of it was the primary time that quite a bit confirmed as much as assist the UST group. That’s why I stored telling my teammates, my sisters that: ‘Women, we should play as one and present them that it’s value it to look at girls’s basketball and never simply males’s basketball or girls’s volleyball’,” mentioned Ferrer, who completed with 19 factors and 14 rebounds in Recreation 3, in Filipino

We wanted to point out that girls’s basketball can also be value watching.”

Tantoy Ferrer, proper, and Kent Pastrana have a good time after UST claimed the UAAP Season 86 girls’s basketball title.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web

Ferrer, who was coming off an ACL harm, averaged 15.7 factors, 11.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 1.3 steals within the finals.

“It appeared inconceivable as a result of I used to be coming off an ACL harm and right here I used to be preventing for the championship and even bought a bonus Finals MVP,” Ferrer mentioned.

“I’m actually grateful. Coach stored telling me that I may nonetheless compete regardless of the ACL as a result of they noticed that I labored laborious day-after-day to return again. I underwent rehab and I used to be decreased to watching them play. That’s what motivated my to provide every little thing I’ve because the first time I returned to coaching. Simply go all out and provides my 100%.”

“And this was the consequence. This was the reward after getting back from an ACL harm. We have been capable of get the crown again to España,” she added.

UST coach Haydee Ong praised Ferrer’s resiliency and management after making their comeback doable and return to girls’s basketball glory.

“Tantoy was a frontrunner, she was the center and soul once we have been making our comeback and that’s what I instructed Tantoy.  Through the second recreation, she was beneath the climate with flu however she nonetheless performed for us. I simply instructed her, Toy, I want you on Wednesday. I instructed her, you must swimsuit up as a result of we will’t win with out you,” mentioned Ong.

Ferrer attributed the workforce’s success to her coach, who trusted her to be a part of UST again in 2018.

“We are able to’t go away UST with out profitable a championship for you, coach. Thanks, coach as a result of we have been capable of deliver the crown again to España. We went by means of quite a bit and also you didn’t let me be by myself. You stored your religion in me.”