Men's Super League-Budinvest
7th round. 7 match.
Chernivtsi. Arena "PVLU". January 21.
"Epicenter-Podolyany" - "The team of the Poltava region. VC Reshetylivka" - 3:1 (25:19, 25:14, 22:25, 25:15).
"Epicenter-Podolanyi": Ivan Raich, Volodymyr Ostapenko, Oleksandr Koval, Vladyslav Didenko, Nikolai Penchev, Volodymyr Cydorenko, Horden Brova (L) - starting line-up; Denys Fomin, Serhii Yevstratov, Yurii Tomyn.
"The team of the Poltava region. VC Reshetylivka": Denys Hurshal, Danylo Fedosieiev, Nik Sotnyk, Oleksii Drofa, Dmytro Loitarenko, Mykola Bovsunovskyi, Anastasii Ostroumov (L) - starting line-up; Volodymyr Skorbatiuk, Pavlo Valiaibaba, Oleksandr Sokhin, Borys Yakovliev.
The final game day of the 7th round of the Super League-Budinvest began with a match between "Epicenter-Podolyany" and "The team of the Poltava region. VC Reshetylivka". The rivals approached the confrontation in a great mood. The club from Horodok performed the "obligatory program" in its first match of the tour beating "Zhytichi-Polissya" from Zhytomyr, and the representative of Poltava region reinforced his victory over "Security Police" with a good level of the game.
Today, Oleksandr Frolov's team put up a worthy fight against one of the leaders of Ukrainian volleyball. In the first half of the starting set, the teams alternated with each other in the leader status. The biggest gap was only two points and it belonged to "Epicenter". In the second half, the character of the game did not change, and the score was constantly led by Podolyany. "Epicenter" spent the final part of the set very powerfully and deservedly became its winner - 25:19.
In the second set, the Horodok team immediately went ahead - 5:1, 11:3. Having achieved such a comfortable advantage, Mariusz Sordyl's team continued to act very collected and went into the ten-minute break leading the match with a score of 2:0.
After the rest, "Reshetylivka" adjusted well to the fight and in the first half of the third set not only did not concede to the favorite of the match, but also created a gap of 4 points from him (11:7, 12:8). In the first half of the set, the Podolians twice reduced their deficit to a minimum, and then equalized the score (13:13, 14:14). In response, the team from the Poltava region showed that they can hold the shot perfectly. Oleksandr Frolov's players absolutely deservedly won the set - 25:22.
At the beginning of the fourth set, "Epicenter" regained the initiative - 6:2, 9:4. When in the second half of the set the handicap of the reigning champion of the country reached 8 points (16:8), in general, everything became clear not only in this set but also in the match as a whole.
The victory of "Epicenter" allowed it to score 45 points and finish the 7th round of Super League-Budinvest in first place. "Reshetylivka" has 12 scoring points.
