Super League-Dmart 2023/24 (women)

1st round. First match. October 27

"Alanta" - "Halychanka-ZUNU" 3-0 (25:15, 25:17, 25:15)

After suffering an "easy" defeat in the Super Cup against "Prometey", the Dnipro players tried everything to rehabilitate in front of their own fans in the first match of the new season of the Super League-Dmart against "Halychanka". Looking ahead, we note that they succeeded.

Two unsuccessful attempts by representatives of "Alanta" to attack led to a double leadership of their opponents. The blockers of the Ternopil team paid a lot of attention to Yuliia Kaminska from the opening minutes. In the end, the outside hitter earned her first point with a serve. At that moment, her team seized the initiative (5:3).

Liudmyla Chornenka took a time-out at the equator of the set, when "Halychanka" was already five points behind the opponents (12:7). It was not possible to break the pace of the leaders, because they had finally found their game - 25:15.

The second set started with the spurts of Gariy Yegiazarov's wards: the attacks of the aforementioned Yuliia Kaminska and Mariia Protsenko, as well as the confident serving of Stanislava Parfionova did their job (4:0).

Thanks to Maryna Mircheva's aces, the volleyball players from Ternopil managed to stabilize the situation on the court and even equalize the parity (6:6). However, it did not last long. Despite the rotation of the team from the coaching staff of "Alanta", this team led 2-0 - 25:17.

In the next set, the Dnipro team continued to force events. In the first half of this set, the focus was on Kateryna Dzendzelovska, who knocked out her opponent from the reception and helped her club to secure a comfortable handicap (9:2). By the end of the set, the distance between the rivals only increased - 25:15. 

Starting line-up of "Alanta": Protsenko (6), Lozinska, Kaminska (10), Fedyk (4), Luchko (c) (1), Parfonova (2), Lutsenko (l). Substitutes: Dzendzelovska (12), Puhach (5), Hrytsyk (9), Boiko (l), Kravchenko (4), Dabeka.

Starting line-up of "Halychanka-ZUNU": Mircheva (11), Dzhyma, Popovych (7), Rybolovlieva (3), Tarnavskyi-Lys, Kimak, Samusenko (l). Substitutes: Ovcharenko (3), Stepura, Holod (c) (1).