Defeat for National Women’s Volleyball from Ukraine

In an interesting match, the Women’s National Volleyball team lost 2-3 sets to Ukraine’s Melina Merkouri in their first warm-up match ahead of next month’s European Championships.

The National Team started with Nikologianni, Strandzali, Kalandatze, Todai, Konstantinidou, Anthoulis and libero Artakianou.

In the tie break, Greece played with Tsitsigianni, Spanou, Totai, Nikologianni, Xanthopoulou, Terzoglou, Kakouratou. With 4 points from Tsitsigianni, it became 5-3 and 5-7 after Totai’s out. Spanou’s ace made it 8-9, Todai’s block made it 8-11, Xanthopoulou’s ace 11-13, but Todai’s block and Terzoglou’s ace shaped the final result.

On Friday, the two teams will meet again in Rentis at 18:00.

The sets: 23-25, 19-25, 25-13, 25-14, 11-15 in 104′

*Greece’s points came from 6 aces, 60 attacks, 17 blocks and 20 opponent errors and Ukraine’s points came from 4 aces, 58 attacks, 8 blocks and 22 opponent errors.

GREECE (Younos Otsal): Anthoulis 20 (19/33 ref., 1 block), Todai 2 (1/6 ref., 1 ace), Nikologianni 17 (13/32 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks, 56% sub. – 22% excellent) , Kalandatze 6 (5/7 ref., 1 block), Konstantinidou 8 (3/6 ref., 5 blocks), Strandzali 15 (10/23 ref., 1 ace, 4 blocks, 31% sub. – 11% excellent ) / Artakianou (l, 67% sub. – 67% excellent), Kakuratou (l), Spanou 2 (1/3 ref., 1 ace, 36% sub. – 00% excellent), Lamprousi 3 (3/9 fr. ., 1 block), Terzoglou 3 (1/4 ref., 2 blocks), Xanthopoulou 1 (1 ace), Tsitsigianni 5 (4/8 ref., 1 block)

UKRAINE (Ivan Petkov): Milenko 11 (10/21 ff., 1 block, 51% sub – 31% excellent), Dormsan 9 (8/22 ff., 1 block), Sarkhorska 2 (0/2 ff., 2 blocks), Majevska 7 (5/7 f., 1 ace, 1 block), Dimar 3 (3/9 f., 50% sub.-25% excellent), Kraiduba 14 (12/18 f., 2 aces) / Nemcheva (l, 68% sub. – 39% excellent), Meliuskina 7 (4/12 ref., 3 blocks), Olynyuk, Dadask 12 (11/26 ref., 1 ace), Kondola 5 (5/17 ref., 39% sub .-22% excellent)