Comunicato Stampa della Lega Pallavolo Serie A

The unceasing battle to finish top before the break between Macerata and Trentino had a thrilling epilogue with two tie-breaks. In the end, Macerata prevailed thanks to another great team effort in Piacenza. Leonel Marshall’s 37 points, a record this season, and the come back of Zlatanov were not enough for the hosts. Meanwhile, Martina Franca put an end to Trentino’s unbeatable record, which had been lasting since the 3^rd of April. Macerata’s PalaFontescodella and Cuneo’s gym are the only fortress left. Martina’s win over the Italian Champs represents a great breakthrough after Marco Bonitta’s resignation. Cuneo took third place thanks to an improving Vladimir Nikolov and Peter Platenik. Treviso keeps showing signs of improvement, but it paid the price for fading in the fourth.  Verona proved dominant away at Forli, taking revenge as they had been beaten by Forli in the A2 playoffs final last season. Thanks to this win, Alberto Giuliani moves up the table again, they are now sixth. Thanks to a 3-1 over Pineto, Padova is definitely back to life in this league. However, the big win of the day goes to Vibo Valentia, who surprised Montichiari in its own house 3-1 and snatch its ticket to the Italian Cup Final Eight. Gulinelli’s men had to get all three points against one of the most in-form teams and hope for Perugia not to take any points at home against Modena. And that all came incredibly true. Simeonov and co confirmed their recent progress taking the three points, as coach Zanini could not have dreamt for a better start. Indeed, Perugia was surprised by the appearance of Lee and Sartoretti in the starting line up. Brazilian Sidão had an explosive performance with 18 points and 7 blocks.

Serie A1 TIM, 13^th round

RESULTS

Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo – Sisley Treviso 3-1 (25-21; 23-25; 25-22; 28-26)
Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza – Lube Banca Marche Macerata 2-3 (25-23; 23-25; 25-23; 22-25; 13-15)
Itas Diatec Trentino – Stamplast Martina Franca 2-3 (25-21; 22-25; 27-25; 23-25; 12-15)
Yoga Forli – Marmi Lanza Verona 0-3 (22-25; 17-25; 19-25)
RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia – Trenkwalder Modena 1-3 (22-25; 17-25; 25-23; 18-25)
Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari – Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia 1-3 (26-28; 23-25; 25-16; 20-25) 
Antonveneta Padova – Framasil Pineto 3-1 (22-25; 25-17; 25-19; 25-19)

SERIE A1 TIM TABLE
Lube Banca Marche Macerata 31; Itas Diatec Trentino 29; Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo 26;  Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza 24; Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari, Marmi Lanza Verona 22; Sisley Treviso 19; Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia, RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia 18; Framasil Pineto 14; Trenkwalder Modena, Stamplast Martina Franca 15; Yoga Forl� 11; Antonveneta Padova 9.

 I TABELLINI E LE PAROLE DEI PROTAGONISTI

BRE BANCA LANNUTTI CUNEO – SISLEY TREVISO 3-1 (25-21, 23-25, 25-22, 28-26)

Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo: Wijsmans 13, Gonzalez 4, Fortunato 7, Vergnaghi (L), Jeroncic 8, Nikolov 21, Nuti, Biribanti, Pieri (L), Platenik 19. DNP Ariaudo, Curti, Abbadi. Coach. Prandi.
Sisley Treviso: Fei 20, Hubner 7, Papi 14, Farina (L), Kohut 8, Saitta, Endres 8, Cisolla 14, Daldello (L), Garcia 1. DNP Dolfo, Antonov, Gallotta. Coach. Dall’Olio Francesco.

Peter Platenik (Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo): “We’ve all played well, without any pressure. Then the ones that served better won. It’s a great satisfaction to beat Treviso, who is such a prestigious club”.

Pupo Dall’Olio (Sisley Treviso): “Cuneo was better in the counter attack, in the fourth set we had almost made it but then we faded”.

COPRA NORDMECCANICA PIACENZA – LUBE BANCA MARCHE MACERATA 2-3 (25-23, 23-25, 25-23, 22-25, 13-15)

Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza: Rak 11, Insalata 1, Meoni 1, Marshall 37, Grassano 5, Boninfante, Zingaro (L), Zlatanov, Durante (L), Bravo 10, Bjelica 18. DNP Dunnes. Coach. Lorenzetti
Lube Banca Marche Macerata: Lebl 4, Giovi (L), Vermiglio 1, Bartoletti, Saraceni, Martino 9, Monopoli, Corsano (L), Santana 11, Omrcen 30, Swiderski 20, Podrascanin 5. DNP Snippe. Coach. De Giorgi

 Gianluca Durante (Copra Nordmeccanica Piacenza): “It’s been a hard fought game, as we expected. We lacked a bit of cynicism to seal the deal. Zlatanov’s entry gave us great motivation, even though that was not enough. He’s a great leader, he spur the other ones on and the enthusiasm the fans showed when he came on is a testimony”.

Ferdinando De Giorgi (Lube Banca Marche Macerata): “It’s been a difficult but nice game, played at a high level. We had a good team performance, even though we still have some work on. I’m satisfied with that first half of championship. We have good material on which to work, but there are still things to improve”.

ITAS DIATEC TRENTINO – STAMPLAST MARTINA FRANCA 2-3 (25-21, 22-25, 27-25, 23-25, 12-15)

Itas Diatec Trentino: Kaziyski 25, Segnalini (L), Birarelli, Della Lunga 3, Grbic 8, De Paola 2, Winiarski 4, Garcia Pires Ribeiro 12, Bari (L), Stefanov 17, Piscopo 10. DNP Zygadlo, Vissotto Neves. Coach. Stoytchev
Stamplast Martina Franca: Ricciardello (L), Coscione 3, Stancu 12, Cernic 16, Mastrangelo 11, Corsini, Sequeira 23, Rodriguez 22. DNP Guglielmi, Stoijkovic, Quartarone, Granvorka. Coach. Paglialunga

Cosimo Marco Piscopo (Itas Diatec Trentino): “Many factors contributed to this bitter end: bad luck, injuries, a sub-par performance and above all, the great performance by Martina Franca. It’s a bad loss but to be honest, there wasn’t much more we could do, because we played set after set with a different team and we struggled. Let’s forget about it and try to be ready for Sunday’s game at Forli”.

Valdir Sequeira (Stamplast Martina Franca): “We have been training well for weeks, despite the difficulty and all the turmoil. I knew we could do something positive. We did not think of the thing that occurred during the week and we pulled together. In the fourth set, with Trento mistake in the line up (De Paola instead of Piscopo) helped us and we started to believe we could make it”.

YOGA FORLI – MARMI LANZA VERONA 0-3 (22-25, 17-25, 19-25)

Yoga Forli: Henno (L), Molteni 11, Bittar 2, Haldane 5, Redwitz 1, Casadei 8, Loglisci 7, Patriarca 10. DNP Bendi, Di Franco, Dolfo, Bozko. Coach. Molducci
Marmi Lanza Verona: Latelli (L), Parodi 10, Popp 8, Sottile 2, Lasko 19, Dehne, Colaci (L), Semenzato 8, Bontje 10. DNP Volpini, Szabo, Maric, Mosterts. Coach. Giuliani.

Giuseppe Patriarca (Yoga Forli): ‘It did not go well at all tonight against Verona. They proved to be superior in every area of the game, and that made the difference. In the crowd, though, I think they’ve seen we put everything we had, but obviously that’s not enough right now’.

Rob Bontje (Marmi Lanza Verona): “We’ve led the game from start to finish. We did a good job of putting to practice what we did in training this week, forcing the serve at the beginning. We’ve all played well, even though we have to say that Lasko really stood out”.

RPA-LUIGIBACCHI.IT PERUGIA – TRENKWALDER MODENA 1-3 (22-25, 17-25, 25-23, 18-25)

Rpa-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia: Kovacevic, Savani 16, Nemec, Serafini 1, Cruz De Carvalho, Sintini 2, Felizardo 9, Pippi (L), Vujevic 11, Stokr 11, Fanuli (L), Bovolenta 3, Botti 1. Coach. Di Pinto
Trenkwalder Modena: Lee 6, Ciabattini (L), Tencati, Kooistra 12, Rinaldi (L), Dennis 19, Sartoretti 13, Santos 18, Smuc, Travica, Siebeck 3. DNP Pagni, Bartoli. Coach. Zanini

Claudio Sciurpa (Presidente RPA.LuigiBacchi.it Perugia): “Not to be in the Italian Cup is a failure. We’ve always lost the games that mattered and now players and staff will have to assume its responsibility. We’ll sleep over it and decide what to do next”.

Emanuele Zanini (Trenkwalder Modena): “I tried to change the team, shuffling my cards and trying to surprise the opponent. But then Perugia gave us a hand and everything went well”.

ACQUA PARADISO GABECA MONTICHIARI – TONNO CALLIPO VIBO VALENTIA 1-3 (26-28, 23-25, 25-16, 20-25)

Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari: Sala 11, Rauwerdink 5, Horstink 13, Tiberti 1, Paparoni 2, Esko 4, Howard 7, Gavotto 30, Zito (L), Mani� (L). DNP Pesenti, Forni, Bellei. Coach. Berruto
Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia: Ditlevsen, Contreras 14, Cozzi 8, Sammelvuo 1, Vieira De Oliveira 2, Ferraro (L), Diaz Mayorca 21, Simeonov 17, Shumov 8, Bozidis 1, Cicola (L). DNP Divis, Barone. Coach. Gulinelli

Mikko Esko (Acqua Paradiso Gabeca Montichiari): “We made it to the Italian Cup but all the points are important. Tonight we had the opportunity to win 3, but we lost. Now, we have to focus already on the next game. Anyway, I saw Vibo Valentia was really up for it tonight, they were surely more motivated than us and they deserved to win”.

Ventceslav Simeonov  (Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia): “We’re extremely satisfied because, more than the Italian Cup, our target was to get some points because the table is very tight, a victory or a defeat makes a big difference. I’m happy with the fact we won in the house of a team that played great volleyball lately. We might have wanted the win more than them today”.

ANTONVENETA PADOVA – FRAMASIL PINETO 3-1 (22-25, 25-17, 25-19, 25-19)

Antonveneta Padova: Garghella (L), De Togni, Maniero, Raymaekers 12, Kral 7, Mattera 5, Gato 10, Perazzolo 12, Kromm 22, Maruotti 3. DNP Gottardo, Meggiolaro. Coach. Bagnoli
Framasil Pineto: De Oliveira 13, Hietanen 6, Fantin 6, Vicini (L), Lampariello (L), De Gennaro Leme 1, Rodrigo 18, Buti 4, Fabroni, Ravellino 6, Vigilante. DNP Sborgia, Mancini. Coach. Montagnani

Bruno Bagnoli (Antonveneta Padova): “It’s not been the greatest of games, but it was important to get the three points and we managed to do so. In the first set, the y dictated the play, but then we reacted with character thanks to a good performance from Kromm and Raymaekers who, when he came in, was very active. Now, we’re right back on track before the return games”.