Men's Super League-Budinvest
6th round. 4 match.
Chernivtsi. SC "Malenkyi Paryzh". December 9.
"Epicenter-Podolyany" - VSC "Law Academy" - 3:0 (25:15, 25:17, 25:20).
"Epicenter-Podolyany": Volodymyr Ostapenko, Yevhenii Kiciliuk, Andrii Rohozhyn, Serhii Yevstratov, Nikolai Penchev, Yurii Tomyn, Horden Brova (L) - starting line-up.
VSC "Law Academy": Ihor Antoniuk, Vitalii Sukhinin, Illia Polishchuk, Oleksandr Tereshchuk, Viktor Shapoval, Pavlo Plotnik, Viacheslav Perekhodniuk (L) - starting line-up; Denys Dehtiar, Mykyta Arbuzov, Artem Troianovskyi.
In the evening match of today's game day, "Epicenter-Podolyany" from the city of Horodok and "Law Academy" from Kharkiv came to the court of "Malenkyi Paryzh". The main intrigue of today's confrontation was that in the first round, the Kharkiv team managed to raise one of the main sensations of the championship, beating one of its favorites in four sets.
The head coach of "Epicenter" Mariusz Sordyl could already count on the Bulgarian legionnaire of the team Nikolay Penchev today. Nikolay and his teammates played the opening part of the match much better than their opponent - 5:2, 8:4, 12:6. For their part, Kharkiv club halved the gap, but could not develop their local success. The 4:0 surge of the Horodok team with a score of 13:10 in its favor largely determined the outcome of the set. The final handicap of Mariusz Sordil's team was 10 points.
The second set developed according to a similar scenario: the leader of the match achieved a more or less comfortable advantage in the first half of the set, and at the beginning of the second one, the handicap of the team from Horodok amounted to 9 points (18:9). Serhii Kovalenko's team reduced its deficit in the score, but only by one point - 17:25.
After a ten-minute break, the "lawyers" did everything they could to get the match back on track. Only at the equator of the set did they let the opponents go by 4 points (9:13), but then they left behind 3 rallies in a row. This effort of the Kharkiv team turned out to be not enough: "Epicenter" did not lose the initiative and step by step came to take revenge on the opponent for the defeat in the first circle.
