Copra Piacenza – Lube Banca Marche Macerata 3-2 (25-21; 16-25; 25-17; 22-25; 15-11)
Copra Piacenza: Bjelica 10, Granvorka 8, Zlatanov 24, Cozzi 3, Meoni 3, Rodriguez 13, Sergio (L), Simeonov 5, Bovolenta 6, Boninfante 0. N.E. Bravo. coach Lorenzetti
Lube Banca Marche Macerata: Paparoni 5, Geric 16, Omrcen 22, Swiderski 9, Lebl 16, Vermiglio 1, Corsano (L), Monopoli 0, Snippe 0, Bartoletti 3, Saraceni 4. N.E. Smerilli, Rodrigao. coach De Giorgi.
Refs: Lavorenti, Bartolini
NOTES – Audience 3145; takings 10978 euros; set lenght: 24’, 22’, 23’, 30’, 19’ ; total lenght 121′. yellow card to Vigor Bovolenta on 8-8 in the 5th set.
Piacenza – Copra Piacenza gets to the seventh Monday Night appointment with just enough men. Gromadowski and Bravo are injured, Angelo Lorenzetti keeps Vencentslav Simeonov on the bench due to a problematic knee, playing french diagonal player Frantz Granvorka. On the other side, Lube Banca Marche Macerata goes for the starting six that defeated Sysley Treviso in order to get their first away victory this season.
The final tie break is the consequence of a wavy match that saw the teams alternating in playing the better game. The first and third sets are singed by Copra Piacenza that shows off Meoni, Zlatanov and Bovolenta. Perfect directorship by Marco Meoni who instpired Hristo Zlatanov, MVP.
Lube Banca Marche Macerata is good at not giving up. In the second and forth set they have more continuity in their blocking and serving, finding in Omrcen and in the MB’s Lebl and Geric the most dangerouns men.
Macerata goes to their third consecutive tie break to find their first away victory this season and break the fasting started on the 25th of March 2007.
The start of the decisive match belongs to Lube who uses Copra Piacenza’s edginess and mistakes. Martin Lebl nails two balls to the ground and Lorenzetti is forced to stop the game on 3-6. The emotions are not over because an amazing Hristo Zlatanov starts the recovery from the back lines. It is 8-8 then an exausting and passionate head to head. Saraceni shoots out on the parallel that gives his team the 13-11. Copra continues their monologue with an indivisual block by Marco Meoni on Saraceni worth three match points. They will only need the one because Bartoletti makes another mistake for Lube. Copra Piacenza celebrates.
Angelo Lorenzetti (Copra Piacenza): “I am satisfied for the attitude seen today and that was probably missing at the beginning of the season. I rotated all the players available due to some precarious conditions, using them as little as possible, but the results have been good”.
Ferdinando De Giorgi (Lube Banca Marche Macerata): “Given how the match was going, the one point we got is a loss more than anything. We have players who could close matches a lot earlier but we let the third and first sets go too easily”.
MVP: Hristo Zlatanov (Copra Piacenza)
SERIE A1 TIM 7TH ROUND RESULTS
M. Roma Volley – Prisma Taranto 3-0 (25-19; 25-21; 25-19)
Cimone Modena – Sparkling Milano 1-3 (25-21; 22-25; 22-25; 24-26)
Itas Diatec Trentino – Antonveneta Padova 3-2 (22-25; 28-30; 25-18; 25-19; 15-12)
Sisley Treviso – Andreoli Latina 3-0 (25-12; 25-21; 25-14)
Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo – Famigliulo Corigliano 3-0 (25-22; 25-20; 25-22)
RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia – Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari 2-3 (25-20; 19-25; 23-25; 25-17; 14-16)
