Conegliano completes perfect first half of the year
Volleyball, results
Two matches on Saturday of the twelfth day of Series A1 Tigotà.
Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano closes the perfect round, graduating as winter champions thanks to a 3-0 win against Il Bisonte Firenze (already played the thirteenth round against Perugia). Thirteenth victory in as many matches, 39 sets won compared to only two left to the opponents. A peremptory path of domination, from which even the Tuscan lineup did not escape, annihilated in just over an hour by the attacks of Adigwe, 16 points for the substitute of Haak, and the’MVP Chirichella, 10 points with 80% from the field. Also in double figures were Lanier, 14 points, and Gabi, 11, awarded MVP of the Month for November at the beginning of the game. Fighting only in the second set, closed at 22, coach Bendandi’s lineup, left at 12 and 13 in the other two fractions and overwhelmed by the panthers’ 10 team aces (3 by Lubian, 2 for Lanier and Adigwe).
In contrast, very close match in Pesaro, where the Megabox Ond. Savio Vallefoglia lost its second consecutive tie-break, after the one at home in Milan on Wednesday, against’Igor Gorgonzola Novara. In the beginning, it is the guests who keep the ball of the game and even lead by five lengths up to 16-21, but in the end of the partial the great reaction of coach Pistola s team allows the 1-0 with the score of 29-27. The slip did not rattle coach Bernardi’s girls, who responded with two high tempo fractions, allowing them to tie and overtake with a 17-25 double. But as happened in Monza, the green-and-whites show they can compact in difficulties and play a fourth set of authority, dominating the initial stages and then containing the reaction of the Piedmontese for the 25-23 that sends the confrontation to the tie-break. A set that turns out to be very balanced, living of a back-and-forth that goes on until the final 17-19 that rewards Novara, dragged by an Tolok unstoppable 36 points, season record in Serie A. Also good Ishikawa, 17 points, and Squarcini, 13 with 3 walls, while for Vallefoglia Bici scored 20 points while Candi set another season record with her 10 walls (18 points).