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[Title] => Blue Girls bat for Asian Games breakthrough
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[Title] => Asiad-bound Blu Girls take the podium at PSA Forum
[Summary] => The Asian Games-bound Philippine Blu Girls will talk about their coming campaign in Nagoya, Japan in the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday, August 4.
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[Title] => Manila softbelles ascend back to World Series throne
[Summary] => Team Manila-Philippines showed its finest form and top class as it beat Texas Pride Elite Team from host Rio Grande Valley region, 8-1, in a thrilling battle to win and regain the title.
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[Title] => Philippine batters strike in Pony WS
[Summary] => The Philippines brought home a pair of championships from the recently concluded Pony International Softball World Series in McAllen, Texas with Manila reigning supreme in the 18-under division and Sagay City claiming the 14-under crown.
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[Title] => Blu Girls stun Puerto Rico to stay alive in Softball World Cup qualifiers
[Summary] => The Philippine Blu Girls pulled off a miraculous seventh-inning effort and eked out a shock 5-4 victory over the World No. 3 Puerto Ricans Friday that breathed life to their WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup Group Stage campaign in Lima, Peru.
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[Title] => Blu Girls blanked by Japanese for second straight loss
[Summary] => The Philippine Blu Girls got suffocated by the Japanese’s pitching brilliance and absorbed a numbing 4-0 defeat, the former’s second straight in the WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup group stage.
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[Title] => Blu Girls fall vs Venezuela in Softball World Cup group stage opener
[Summary] => The Philippine Blu Girls sank under the quagmire of the Venezuelans’ barrage of runs and suffered a stinging 8-5 defeat at the start of the WBSC Women’s Softball World Cup group stage.
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[Title] => Blu Girls open World Cup Group Stage campaign vs Venezuela
[Summary] => The road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics for the Philippine Blu Girls begins Wednesday as they battle the Venezuelans at the start of the WBSC Women’s World Cup Group Stage in Lima, Peru.
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[Title] => Blu Girls eye Japan training for Softball World Cup Group Stage bid
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[Title] => Blu Girls set for multi-country buildup for World Cup, Asian Games
[Summary] => The Philippine Blu Girls will go on training camps in South Korea, Japan and the United States in preparation for the WBSC Women’s World Cup Group Stage and the Asian Games this year.
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[Title] => Asiad-bound Blu Girls take the podium at PSA Forum
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[Title] => Manila softbelles ascend back to World Series throne
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[Title] => Philippine batters strike in Pony WS
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[Title] => Blu Girls blanked by Japanese for second straight loss
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[Title] => Blu Girls fall vs Venezuela in Softball World Cup group stage opener
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[Title] => Blu Girls open World Cup Group Stage campaign vs Venezuela
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[Title] => Blu Girls set for multi-country buildup for World Cup, Asian Games
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