Luxembourg sweeps San Marino in 2012 CEV Junior Volleyball European Championship match
The final round of the 2012 CEV Junior Volleyball European Championship – Small Countries Division is currently under way in Scotland with the city of Motherwell playing host to the tournament.
The first day of the championship saw a total of three matches being held. The first match was played between Cyprus as well as Ireland, with Cyprus ending up on the winning side by making a clean sweep over its opponent. The final set scores stood as 25-9,
25-7 and 25-11.
The second match of the day was competed between San Marino and Luxembourg. This match too did not take too long to determine a winner as Luxembourg was able to seal the deal in three back-to-back sets.
The coach of the Luxembourg squad, Dieter Scholl, expressed himself by making the following comments, “It was good to secure a victory today, as there are a number of dangerous teams in this competition, and we must be at our best at all times. I thought
that the first two sets showed us at our best, but we learned in the third set that we cannot give away any advantage. I was delighted not only to win the third set having been behind, but at the manner in which we fought back from 23:21 down.”
The last match of the day saw the host team paired up with Northern Ireland. As the previous twp matches of the day, the final match of the day also ended in a clean sweep. This time, it was the home team that did the honours of bagging three sets consecutively.
The Northern Ireland players did not give much of a competition to their opponents as each set was won by Scotland by a comfortable margin. The score board showed the following final set scores at the end of the day: 25-17 and 25-13 and 25-15.
The Scottish players played a well synchronised match all through but the players that stood most prominent in terms of their performance were Ross Kirkwood and Scott Wilson. Both Wilson as well as Kirkwood are the wing spikers of the team.
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