Lube <\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
Warsaw <\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
LUBE KITCHENS: D’heer 7, Gargiulo 9, Boninfante 4, Nikolov 26, Kukartsev 14, Bottolo 19, Balaso (L), Bisotto, Orduna, Podrascanin. NE Tenorio and Duflos-Rossi. Coach: Medei.<\/p>\n
PGE PROJEKT WARSAWA: Firlej, Klos 8, Tillie 16, Semeniuk 10, Bednorz 20, Weber 12, Wojtaszek (L), Gomulka 3, Firszt, Strulak, Koppers, Kozlowski. NE Kochanowski and Olerendek. All. Nalepka.<\/p>\n
Referees: Ivanov (Bul) and Kalin (Svi).<\/p>\n
Partials: 25-23 (31′), 24-26 (30′), 25-19 (26′), 22-25 (30′), 15-12 (22′).<\/p>\n
Notes: spectators 2.754; Lube missed serves 25, aces 3, blocks 15, reception 53% (perfect 34%), attack 50%; Projekt bs 21, aces 4, blocks 6, 65% (28%), 48%.<\/p>\n
The third tiebreaker in eight days finally smiled on Lube, who defeated Warsaw 3-2 at the end of a marathon 139-minute match. Already qualified for the quarterfinals as the top seed in Group E, the red and whites exited the opening phase with five wins in six games. A different Civitanova, with Kukartsev in the starting six and, more importantly, the return of captain Balaso to the starting lineup. Nikolov was MVP and set up a remarkable 15 blocks against their rivals. On Sunday, the team travels to Cisterna, and on Wednesday, the final regular-season match is at home against Monza. <\/p>\n
First set. Cheered on by thirty or so fans, Warsaw opened up a 0-3 lead, but Lube slowly settled in: 10-8. Tillie was blocked twice, and Civitanova went up by 4. The Poles tried to stay in the game, with Bednorz making it 22-20. Gargiulo made it 24-22, but the usual Bednorz (9 points, 70%) cancelled it out, then served, fired wide, and it was 1-0. <\/p>\n
Second set. Just like before, Lube opens poorly, this time up 2-7. Gargiulo produces attacks and blocks, while Nikolov plays smart and makes it 12-14. The service doesn’t quite complete the comeback (6 errors), and Warsaw remains ahead 15-19. Bednorz makes it 21-24, but he himself attacks out at 23-24. Advantage. The spiker again finds the block-out, then Kukartsev makes an error. <\/p>\n
Third set. On Bottolo’s service game, I take a 10-8 lead. The red and whites play well, D’heer’s block on Bednorz gives them a 20-16 lead, and Nikolov (7 points on 7\/8) takes a 5-point lead. Weber serves long, 24-19, but D’heer doesn’t imitate him at all, finding an ace to put Lube back in front. <\/p>\n
The fourth set. The set is the most evenly matched of all, a back-and-forth: 19-20. A disputed call (Cormio almost on the court), with the video check failing to show a touch that would have proven Lube right, leads to a 21-22 lead and Weber’s ace on Balaso. Boninfante, however, misses: 22-24, Klos’s block on Gargiulo makes it 2-2. <\/p>\n
Fifth set. Angry about the incident, Lube takes a 6-3 lead with defense and Bottolo. The match ends 8-7, with Nikolov making it 13-10. Firlej serves into the net, then a glacial Bottolo closes the final credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lube 3 Warsaw 2 LUBE KITCHENS: D’heer 7, Gargiulo 9, Boninfante 4, Nikolov 26, Kukartsev 14, Bottolo 19,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[13120,4264,6916,13118,13121,182,13117,181,13119],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-arm","tag-close","tag-first","tag-group","tag-iron","tag-poland","tag-red-and-whites","tag-warsaw","tag-wins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}