Super League-Dmart 2023/24 (women)
Series for third place. The third game. April 18
SC "Balta" — VC "Bukovynka" 0-3 (22:25, 24:26, 18:25)
"Bukovynka" defeated "Balta" for the third time in a row and won the bronze medals of the Super League-Dmart for the 2023/24 season. This time, the fact that the match took place on the rivals' court did not prevent the Chernivtsi team from winning.
On the serve of Kateryna Volchenko, who played the role of setter today due to personnel problems, the owners of the court immediately broke away in the score by two points (4:2). On the other side of the net, the answer was found in the person of Polina Dziuba. The latter knocked the opponent out of the reception with her power attack (4:6).
The players from Chernivtsi bravely continued to steadily score points, due to which the team secured a double advantage at the equator (6:12). Andrii Romanovych took two time-outs in a short period of time and made a substitution — Valeriia Dromova appeared on the court. It worked, because representatives of Odesa reduced their deficit to only two points (16:18). However, they did not manage to do more — 22:25.
Bukovynka started the second set strongly (0:4). However, their own mistakes prevented them from immediately consolidating this success (8:10). Already in the next rally, the block-out of Iryna Nohina forced Artem Dyhtiarenko to use a 30-second break.
Apparently, the players did not hear their mentor, because he had to talk to them again. Meanwhile, the score on the scoreboard announced equality (17:17). As a result, the incredible intrigue lasted until the end of the set, where the guests had the last word in the "more or less" game — 24:26.
The development of the third set resembled the previous one: once again, the starting total advantage of the Chernivtsi players melted right before our eyes (3:8, 8:10). But this time for "bukovynka" in the end, everything went without nerves — 18:25.
Starting line-up of SC "Balta": Volchenko (c) (2), Lysa (2), Ratii (1), Skliarova, Nohina (9), Strelbytska (8), Malysheva, Karasova (l). Substitutes: Dromova (5), Kalashnyk.
Starting line-up of VC "Bukovynka": Lohmanchuk (7), Starostenko (6), Dziuba (10), Kaplanska D. (8), Herasimchuk (5), Tverda (2), Rotar (l, c). Substitutes: Kaplanska M. (2), Zharkova, Huseinova, Cherkashina, Stravinskaite.
