Volley BERGAMO sweeps Scavolini PESARO – 2012 CEV Volleyball Champions League
One of the quarter-finals of the 2012 CEV Volleyball Champions League - Women saw the Volley BERGAMO squad compete with Scavolini PESARO team on February 2.
The matches of the tournament are being staged in many of the European cities while the contest between BERGAMO and PESARO was hosted in the Italian city of Treviglio.
The venue of the competition between the two sides was the Pala Facchetti which housed a total of 1000 fans that had come to watch the show. However, it did not take long for the winner to emerge as BERGAMO was able to defeat their opponents by making a
clean sweep over them. Not only did BERGAMO win the match in three back-to-back sets, they did so by bagging each frame by a comfortable margin.
By the time that PESARO was heading out of the court in disappointment, the BERGAMO squad started celebrating their win at the following final set scores, 25-16, 25-20 and 25-22.
The head coach of the winning team, Davide Mazzanti, expressed himself in the following manner when the match had reached its close, “This is a very important victory. It was very important to take this match tonight and we are happy with the result. We
had a good start with the spikes of Quaranta, but also Arrighetti and Nucu registered good efficiency in attack. I hope we will play like this also next week in Pesaro.”
The first set of the match saw the BERGAMO take the lead early on at 8-4. Once they had the lead, they did not let go of the advantage and stuck with it until the end at 25-16. The second set of the match was the toughest one as the PESARO squad tried to
turn things in their favour but to no avail as BERGAMO secured another win at 25-20. The third set saw the BERGAMO stay in control all the way to achieve a win at 25-22.
The player that was able to achieve the honour of being called the Most Valuable Player of the match was Annamaria Quaranta. Quaranta earned herself the title after scoring 16 points in the entire match that made her the best scorer as well. The attack efficiency
that was achieved by Quaranta was 67 percent.
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