Super League-Dmart 2023/24 (women)
Semifinal. The second game. March 23
SC "Balta" — SC "Prometey" 0-3 (18:25, 23:25, 7:25)
The second match between "Balta" and "Prometey" in the semifinals of the Super League-Dmart was also without sensation. Ivan Petkov's wards defeated their rivals with an "easy" score on the scoreboard and confidently advanced to the finals, where the players of "Alanta" are already waiting for them.
Representatives of Odesa probably surprised their opponents at the start of the match with their thirst for victory. Anastasiia Strelbytska's powerful attacks repeatedly changed the score on the scoreboard (6:2). However, our girls quickly came to their senses, and soon the double block of Anastasiia Maievska and Viktoriia Danchak leveled the parity (8:8). This episode became the reference point of the spurt and, as a result, the victory of "Prometey" in the first set - 18:25.
Andrii Romanovych's wards put up decent resistance in the next set as well. They desperately saved every ball, which for a long time allowed them to be on par with the opponents (8:8, 18:18). At a certain moment after Ksenia Ratii's dink, the Balta team took the lead and came to the endgame as the leaders (23:22). However, the athletes from Odesa did not manage to become the first team that could take at least a set from the "red and whites" in the current season. Because during such a game, the class of the sides came to the fore, which prevails in "Prometey" — 23:25.
However, in the third segment, the struggle did not work out at all. Perhaps it was difficult for the players of "Balta" to gather themselves psychologically after the regret of the previous failure, hence such a crushing score on the scoreboard - 7:25.
Starting line-up of SC "Balta": Volchenko (c) (1), Ratii (10), Dromova (11), Nohina (5), Strelbytska (4), Malysheva (1), Karasova (l). Substitutes: Lysa, Horbachenko (1), Kalashnyk.
Starting line-up of SC "Prometey": Khober(7), Danchak (20), Maievska (6), Meliushkyna (5), Sharhorodska (6), Milenkovych (16), Niemtseva (l), Vasylieva (l). Substitutes: Oliinyk.
