{"id":145964,"date":"2025-11-03T05:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=145964"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:53:40","slug":"xyz-rayco-leads-philippines-u16-past-iran-for-historic-avc-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/xyz-rayco-leads-philippines-u16-past-iran-for-historic-avc-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Xyz Rayco Leads Philippines U16 Past Iran for Historic AVC Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>AMMAN, Jordan \u2014 The Philippines stunned Iran with a 25-21, 25-22, 25-22 victory to move on to the next round of the 2nd AVC Asian Women\u2019s U16 Volleyball Championship on Sunday at Princess Sumaya Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines turned to its team captain Xyz Rayco, who stood tall with 13 points built on nine kills, three blocks, and an ace to bounce back from a four-set loss to defending champion Japan on opening day.<\/p>\n<p>Rayco took matters into her own hands, putting on the finishing touches in the last two sets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy because we didn\u2019t expect this.&nbsp;&nbsp;Iran is such a strong team, but we still found a way to win,\u201d Rayco said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just kept a positive mindset on the court. Whatever we could do, we gave it our all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madele Gale also stepped up with nine points including the game-winning joust that sent the Filipinos onto the next round, facing either the top seed of second seed of Pool D, depending on the result of the Japan-Iran match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran fell to a do-or-die game against Japan amid the 12-point effort of Bani Bogari Aynaz.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Thailand and Chinese Taipei entered the next round after sweeping separate foes for identical 2-0 records.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand continued to dominate its opponents in Pool D with a 25-7, 25-12, 25-10 rout of India to stay unbeaten in two games.<\/p>\n<p>A day after sweeping Australia, Thai coach Jarun Niemtuptim had another chance to field all of his players, with Thanyarat Donseenet leading the onslaught this time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanyarat scored eight of her 12 points in the first set to set the tone of their 67-minute sweep before facing Chinese Taipei on Monday at 3:30 (Jordan time).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was happy and so proud of my team and myself, and this win gave us a chance to advance to the next round,\u201d said Thanyarat. \u201cI hope that our team&#8217;s block would work [against Chinese Taipei] and our offense would work so we could win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phitchayada Kunrat chipped in 10 points. Umarin Kaewkalong had eight points, while Chayanut Inthanoo and Chamikon Cankawe added seven each.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;&nbsp;Chen Ting-Yi and Chang Yun-Chen delivered 10 points each, as Chinese Taipei eliminated Australia from contention, 25-19, 25-15, 25-14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s my first game, so I was a little nervous, so I need to get used to the environment and hope the next game, I will be better,\u201d said Chen as they take on Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Hsu Ya-Ping also stepped up with nine points to send Australia to a 0-2 record and to the classification phase.<\/p>\n<p>Devaki Amit Rawat was the top scorer of India with four points after sliding to a 0-2 record.<\/p>\n<p>India and Australia clash for the first win on Monday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN, Jordan \u2014 The Philippines stunned Iran with a 25-21, 25-22, 25-22 victory to move on to the next round of the 2nd AVC Asian Women\u2019s U16 Volleyball Championship on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":145965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,100,223,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avc-news","category-slider","category-u16-women","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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