Men's Super League-Budinvest
6th round 1 match.
Chernivtsi. SC "Malenkyi Paryzh". December 8.
"The team of the Poltava region. VC Reshetylivka" - "Barkom-National team of Ukraine U-18" - 3:2 (25:23, 25:10, 17:25, 24:26, 15:13).
"National team of the Poltava region VC "Reshetylivka": Ruslan Shevtsov (30 points), Denys Hurshal (14 Oleksandr Prokopets (4), Nik Sotnyk (12), Dmytro Loitarenko (4), Oleksandr Sokhin (5), Borys Yakovliev (L) - starting line-up: Pavlo Valiaibaba (1), Anastasii Ostroumov (0).
"Barkom-Ukrainian National Team U-18": Eduard Shteryk (20), Yevhenii Boiko (23), Denys Dehtiar (0), Ruslan Chervatiuk (15), Ihor Shchavinskyi (4), Andrii Cheleniak (9), Mykola Dzhul (L) - starting lineup; Maksym Svyrydov (1), Artem Zelinskyi (5), Ihor Cheleniak (0), Vitalii Kravchenko (0), Pavlo Horodiuk (1).
The 6th round of the Super League-Budinvest was opened by "The team of the Poltava region. VC Reshetylivka" and "Barkom-National team of Ukraine U-18". After 12 matches of the championship, the team from the Poltava region was behind the opponent by one scoring point, but in the confrontation of the first circle, it was they who celebrated success with a score of 3:1.
In today's match, "Reshetylivka" also won, but for this, it needed the maximum number of sets. Oleksandr Frolov's team started the match very confidently - 7:4, 8:5. For its part, the U-18 national team quickly equalized the score (9:9, 10:10). Real "swings" were also observed in the second half of the set. The 6:1 surge of Oleksandr Frolov's team was replaced by the fact that the "national players" left behind 4 draws in a row. The youngest team of our championship did not stop there and took the lead (18:17, 19:18). However, the end of this very interesting set remained for "Reshetylivka" - 25:23. At the decisive moment of the game, for the parity of 20:20, Nick Sotnyk successfully attacked twice from the 4th zone.
The debut of the second game was successful for "Reshetylivka" - 5:0, 12:3. Experienced Ruslan Shevtsov (9 points in one and a half games) consistently brought points to his team in this game segment. The mistakes of the "national platers" in simple situations also contributed to the constant increase in the handicap of the team from the Poltava region. "Reshetylivka" easily took the set, giving the youth only 10 draws.
After a 10-minute break, the U-18 national team tried to intrigue the match - 8:6, 9:8 in its favor at the start of the next set. Volodymyr Romantsov's team minimally won the first half of the game (13:12). In the second half, the "national players" managed to increase their handicap to "+9" (23:14), after which they deservedly won the set.
In the fourth set, it was difficult to give someone an advantage. "Reshetylivka" minimally won the first half of the game (13:12). In the second half, the team from the Poltava region pulled away from the opponent by 3 points (19:16, 20:17), but lost to the opponent 3 rallies in a row, after which the score was equalized (20:20). At the end of the set, the captain of the U-18 national team Yevhenii Boyko was simply unstoppable. In many ways, thanks to the efforts of Yevgeny, his team won the right to set the ball (24:23). The opportunity to win the game was not used, but the "national players" still achieved their goal in the "more or less" game - 26:24.
In the decisive fifth set, both teams had absolutely equal chances to win this dramatic match. The U-18 national team won the first half of the game with a score of 8:6. In the second half, "Reshetylivka" was ahead by 2 points (12:10). "+2" in favor of the team from the Poltava region was also recorded after the end of this set.
After this match, both teams have 9 scoring points in the championship.
