Coppa Italia, Milan folds Scandicci in tie-break and goes to final with Conegliano
Italian Cup, Milan folds Scandicci in tie-break and goes to the final with Conegliano
It’ll be between Imoco Conegliano and Numia Vero Volley Milano in the final of the women’s Serie A1 Italian Cup to be played tomorrow at the Unipol Arena in Casalecchio di Reno, site of the Final Four. The Panthers will be hunting for their sixth consecutive victory, the seventh in their history, and for the third year in a row they will face the Milanese.
Daniele Santarelli’s Venetian women, although in three fairly tight sets (25-21 25-23 25-23 the partials) did not give Igor Gorgonzola Novara a chance. For Conegliano 15 points from Isabelle Haak and 14 from Sarah Fahr, for Lollo Bernardi’s Piedmontese 17 from Tatiana Tolok.
Milan, on the other hand, had to struggle as usual against Savino Del Bene Scandicci but in the end è managed to prevail at the tie-break: 25-21 19-25 25-23 19-25 15-12 the partials in favor of Stefano Lavarini’s girls.
It held court, as always when these two teams play, the duel between Olympic champions Paola Egonu and Ekaterina Antropova, authors of 30 points each. For Milan also 14 by Myriam Sylla and 11 by Anna Danesi, for Marco Gaspari’s Tuscans, who led them against his former team, also 14 by Linda Nwakalor and Britt Herbots.
