Ex-coach of the Russian national team didn’t make a miracle. His Modena lost with Treviso 1-3. Castellana Grotte played with heart and won over Latina in 5 sets.
It was the 100th match between Sisley Treviso and Casa Modena. With the team from Emilia-Romagna Daniele Bagnoli, for the 3rd time as a coach of Modena. However, after 3 days he couldn’t make a miracle, his first match wasn’t as good as expected. Hist team lost 1-3 (21:25, 12:25, 25:23, 26:28). Treviso played better in service and block (18 to 7 of Modena). The game restarted in the 3rd set when Sisley made 9 errors in the service (0 aces). Angel Dennis played the best game of the year (24 points gained). The best from Treviso were Alessandro Fei and Jiri Kovar (MVP of the game). Together they made 38 points. Roberto Piazza (Sisley Treviso) said: “We had to bring home a victory of 3-0, but we lost some power in the service in the 3rd set. Emotions of beating Bagnoli? Surely not! At the end we were joking: he said I had stolen him a point, I said they should have lost 3-0.”
Castellana Grotte broke a streak of failures and conquered the ground of Latina with the result 3-2. The match well played by the hosts in the two first sets (good game in block of Riccardo Spairani, Nikola Kovacevic and Emanuel Kohut), then they let the guests make a good recovery. In Latina shined Sasa Starovic (27 points), from Castellana Grotte the best was Israel Rodriguez (16). MVP: Paolo Torre.
