Salento d’amare Taviano: SALENTO D’AMARE TAVIANO – ACANTO MANTOVA 3-1
Time of the sets: 25-22 (23′), 18-25 (23′), 25-15 (22′), 29-27 (34′).
Notes: Salento d’amare Taviano: serving errors19, aces 4, positive blocks 4

Acanto Mantova: serving errors 10, aces 2, positive blocks 8.
Referees: Alessandro Zingoni from Livorno and Sandro Costantini di Vetralla (Vt)

SALENTO D’AMARE TAVIANO – Rodrigues 22, Popp 10, Pesenti (L), Pierini 0, Crisostomo ne, Postiglioni 3, Fiore 1, Paolucci 1, La Forgia 3, Cosi 1, Belardi 9, Ereu 16. Allenatore: Flavio Gulinelli
ACANTO MANTOVA – Kiossev 0, Hunter 0, Checchin (L), Milushev 13, Mitrovic 11, De Togni 12, Bernabè 9, Tamburo 1, Carletti 2, Mosca 11, Buti 0, Ricci Petitoni 0. Allenatore: Enzo Valdo.

The Coppa Italia effect fill up the William Ingrosso and let Salento get the 3 points in front of their crowd. Mantova, proud and generous, showed a great effort and tried its best to stop the local team
The game started with a Marcus Popp ace but Mantova keeps the match time up to the first time out (8-7) but in the second Salento is way ahead 16-12. Taviano keeps the advantage of 4 points until the end of the first set won 25-22.
In the second set tries to surprise the local time by being agressive from the fist ball. So the hosted team arrives to 12-8, then 16-11 and 18-14. Mantova keeps playing well and close the set 25-18.
After the loss of the second set Taviano starts the 3rd really focused and flies 9-4. The don’t grant anything to Mantova by keeping the level game very high. The score clearly shows 15-8 and 19-12. Taviano is sure to close the set and reaches 21-12 and the set is over with the score of 25-14
Ereu and teammates start strongly also in the 4th set arrivng at 14-10 but Mantova doesn’t give up and at the scond time out the score is 16-15. Mantova takes advantage of some Taviano mistakes and leads the set 22-20. The set now is really tight: 25-25. A winning attack of Popp sends the score 27-26 but Pierini get the serve wrong: 27-27. But then two consecutive points gives the victory to Taviano, the third consecutive one.

SALENTO D’AMARE TAVIANO – COMUNICATION AREA
Daniele Greco
areacomunicazione@stilcasavolley.it