Women's Super League-Dmart
8th round. 6 match.
Chernivtsi. "PVLU" Arena. January 28.
SC "Balta" - "Halychanka-ZUNU" - 3:2 (22:25, 25:21, 17:25, 25:21, 15:13).
SC "Balta": Daria Peretiatko (18 points), Anastasiia Berezovska (2), Polina Beketova (3), Iryna Nohina (26), Alla Okhrimchuk (1), Kateryna Volchenko (13), Tetiana Hrashchenko (L) - starting line-up; Sofiia Kalashnyk (0), Anna Lysa (1), Svitlana Fartushniak (5), Anastasiia Sviatenko (4).
"Halychanka-ZUNU": Valeriia Dromova (24), Diana Holod (5), Liliia Popovych (17), Vitalina Kimak (7), Anastasiia Liakh (9), Vladyslava Hubenko (0), Oleksandra Ovcharenko (4) - starting line-up; Sofiia Samusenko (0), Mariia Rybolovlieva (0), Oleksandra Osypenko (9), Dariia Stepura (1).
The fourth game day of the Super League-Dmart opened with a match between "Balta" and "Halychanka-ZUNU". Before this confrontation, the Balta team were ahead of their rivals in the standings by 6 points, and in the two previous matches of the championship against "Halychanka" they celebrated success with a score of 3:0. And yet, today, the teams were approximately equal in terms of class, so it was not necessary to assign "Balta" the status of a clear favorite.
The third confrontation between the teams in the season contained maximum intrigue. Ternopolyanka started the match quite well – 2:0, 5:3, 11:7. "Balta" reduced its deficit to a minimum at the equator of the set, and at the beginning of the second half finally equalized the score (14:14). However, after that, "Halychanka" again went into the lead with a 5:0 run, and it was already a strong bid to win the set. In this team, Valeriia Dromova acted very effectively - 8 points in the set. The team from Ternopil deservedly took the opening set - 25:22.
In the debut of the next set, "Halychanka" led again most of the time. However, this time "Balta" managed to seize the initiative - 10:7, 13:9. The club from Ternopil began to make mistakes that were not characteristic of them in the first set. At the end of the set, they reduced their deficit to two points (21:23), but they could not save it. The overall score in the match was equal - 1:1.
The third set, like the previous two, was confidently started by "Halychanka" - 5:2, 13:8. When their team was significantly behind by 5 points, the head coach of "Balta" Serhii Koltsov took a time-out, but he could not speak through to his players. In the second half of the set, the Balta team was losing by 8 points. It was with such a convincing advantage that "Halychanka" won this very important set.
In the fourth set, "Balta" did everything possible to change the course of events in the direction they wanted. Serhii Koltsov's team won the first half of the set - 13:11. In the second half, the Balta team was constantly in the lead and, without losing the initiative, postponed the determination of the winner of the match to the fifth decisive set.
"Halychanka" started the set more confidently - 4:2, 6:3. "Balta" responded with a 5:0 run and won the first half of the set. The "swing" continued in the second half. With the score tied at 12:12, "Balta" managed to win 3:1. The most effective player of the match Iryna Nohina (26 points) brought the decisive point for her team.
"Balta" scored 16 points in the championship, and "Halychanka-ZUNU" has 9 points.
