Super League-Dmart 2023-2024

II round. November 18, 2023

VSC "Bukovyna" - VC "Reshetylivka-Barkom-Kazhany" - 3:1 (25:19, 23:25, 25:17, 29:27)

Starting line-up of VSC Bukovyna: Tomilin (scored 11 points), Shteryk (19), Riabov (4), Klepko (10), Oleksiuk (13), Cheleniak (16), Patratii (l), Dzhul (l). Substitutes: Troianovskyi (2), Tonkonoh (0).

Head coach: Volodymyr Orlov.

Starting line-up of VC "Reshetylivka-Barkom-Kazhany": Shavrak (scored 16 points), Kurlapov (17), Polishchuk (3), Tyshchenko (4), Osypenko (4), Hriuk (9), Boiko (l), Yakovlev ( l). Substitutes: Drofa (6), Zalizko (0).

Head coach: Serhii Sosnin.

One of the most interesting matches of the second round of the Super League-Dmart began with the dominance of the Chernivtsi team (5:0). As noted at the pre-match press conference by the libero of VSC "Bukovyna" Vadym Patratii, they will try to play "their game". That's how it turned out. Taras Oleksiuk stood out in the Bukovyna team, who scored 5 out of 8 attacks, and they made fewer mistakes overall. 25:19 - in favor of Chernivtsi.

Changing sides of the court also changed the leader. The people of Poltava took the lead (2:0). But it didn't last long and an interesting and tense fight for every point ensued (5:5 - 13:13). The resolution, as happens in most cases, happened at the end. "Reshetylivka" was a little more lucky - 25:23.

After a 10-minute break, Serhii Sosnin's team took the lead again (2:0 – 9:6), but again their lead was short-lived. The service of Bukovyna's setter Serhii Riabov made certain changes in the game (9:9). Attachers Taras Oleksiuk and Eduard Shteryk implemented most of the attacks (15:11), and the ace of Heorhii Klepko and his generally rather difficult serve decided the fate of the set (17:11). In the end, 25:17 in favor of the team from Chernivtsi.

And the fourth set is the most spectacular in this match. The score was even for almost the entire time (6:6 – 18:18). In the end, the Poltava residents managed to take the lead (23:20). Serhii Sosnin's team even had a set ball (24:21). However, as Eduard Steryk noted after the match, the players of Chernivtsi "showed their game". They won three rallies in a row (24:24), and then they won a three-point victory - 29:27.

The MVP award was won by Eduard Shteryk, an outside hitter of VSC Bukovyna.