Women's Super League-Dmart
8th round. 3 match.
Chernivtsi. "PVLU" Arena. January 26.
VC "Dobrodiy-Meduniversitet-ShVSM" - SC "Balta" - 3:0 (25:18, 25:8, 25:22).
VC "Dobrodiy-Meduniversitet-ShVSM": Dariia Kovalchuk (7 points), Anastasiia Kucher (7), Maryna Dehtiarova (13), Valeriia Yakusheva (16), Anastasiia Malysheva (0), Yana Zavala (8), Tetiana Rotar (L) - starting line-up; Svitlana Sopocheva (L), Liliia Vabishchevych (1), Anastasiia Lozynska (0).
SC "Balta": Daria Peretiatko (12), Anastasiia Berezovska (6), Svitlana Fartushniak (5), Alla Okhrimchuk (2), Anastasiia Sviatenko (2), Kateryna Volchenko (5), Tetiana Hrashchenko (L) - starting line-up; Sofiia Kalashnyk (L), Polina Beketova (0), Iryna Nohina (6).
In the only match of today's game day of the 8th round of the Super League-Dmart, "Dobrodiy-Meduniversitet-ShVSM" from Vinnytsia and SC "Balta" faced each other. As in the first two confrontations of the tour, in this one there was a clear favorite - the Vinnytsia club. The previous matches of the current season's teams spoke in favor of this. The club from Vinnytsia was stronger than the opponent three times and by the way, twice they won in the Super League-Dmart.
In the debut of the match, "Balta" quite unexpectedly took the lead with a margin of 3 points - 4:1. Yuliia Yakusheva, the head coach of "Dobrodiy" reacted to such a development with a timeout. The Vinnytsia team benefited from the mini-break. They organized an impressive 8-0 run. During the second half of the set, "Dobrodiy" confidently led and brought it to a victorious end - 25:18.
There was no real struggle in the second set either. Yuliia Yakusheva's team won the first half with an advantage of 9 points - 13:4. This set was completely under the dictation of Dobrodiy. The potential leader of the championship gave the Balta team only 8 points.
After a ten-minute break, "Balta" did everything possible to create intrigue in the match. They led in the first half of the third set 6:4, 12:9. As in the first set, the team from Vinnytsia was helped by a time-out taken by Yuliia Yakusheva. They immediately equalized the score (12:12), but then the opponents managed to return to "+3" (16:13). At the end of the set, the teams had equal chances to win it. At a decisive moment, the high class of the Vinnytsia club showed up. They won the set (25:22) and the match overall (3:0), which allowed the team with 39 points to return to the top of the tournament table.
