Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia – Cucine Lube Civitanova 0-3 (16-25, 18-25, 18-25) – Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia: Coscione 2, Alves Soares 5, Barone 0, Michalovic 9, Barreto Silva 8, Diamantini 4, Marra (L), Costa 2, Torchia 0, Izzo 0. DNP Maccarone, Rejlek, Corrado. Coach. Kantor. Cucine Lube Civitanova: Christenson 5, Juantorena 14, Stankovic 10, Sokolov 11, Kovar 13, Candellaro 4, Grebennikov (L), Pesaresi 0, Corvetta 0, Cebulj 0. DNP. Cester, Casadei, Kaliberda. Coach. Blengini. REFEREES: Vagni, Cappello. NOTES – sets: 21′, 24′, 26′; tot: 71′. Mvp: Christenson
It was an easy one for Lube at PalaValentia. Gianlorenzo Blengini’s team won clearly 3-0 on Tonno Callipo and gained the Semifinals’ spot, waiting for the winner of Calzedonia Verona-Azimut Modena series. No way for Tonno Callipo, never into the game except early in third set. A great performance by american setter Micah Christenson (Mvp of the match), in front of brasilian national team head coach Renan Dal Zotto, arrived in Vibo to watch Tonno Callips brasilians Kadu, Thiago Alves and Junior Costa. The best scorer of the game was Osmany Juantorena with 14 points (52% in attack), well supported by Jiri Kovar, Tsvetan Sokolov and captain Dragan Stankovic. Tonno Callipo tried to do something in attack with Peter Michalovic, but any spiker of Vibo reached the double digits in attack, also thanks to an usual great performance by frenchman libero Jenna Grebennikov. In the perfect game by Lube, the only weakness has been the mistakes in the fundamental of serve, especially in first set. Now for Tonno Callipo two weeks of bye, then they will face Bunge Ravenna (again) in the Play Off Challenge quarterfinals, starting on 26th march.
Mvp: Micah Christenson
Manuel Coscione (Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia): “We weren’t able to keep their rhythm. Now we have to reset, and think to Play Off Challenge, where we want to do our best”.
Gianlorenzo Blengini (Cucine Lube Civitanova): “It’s an important win, we were good in being always focused on our goal, we approached and handled the game the right way, we knew they were a good team, but the players were great in keeping high the attention, any discount to the opponent”.
