Thursday, February 21, 2008

Another team in Euroepean the 'final four'

On Tuesday there was a match between Asecco Resovia Rzeszów and Ortec Rotterdam in Challange Cup. The teams were fighting for the 'final four' of this tournament. First match, which was playedin Holland, won Ortec with the score 3:0. So Resovia had to win this match, if they wanted to be in teh 'final four'. And they did it. Actualy it was an easy and quick winning (25:16, 25:20, 25:16). Asecco's players were absolutely amazing in their game. They had hard and difficult serves which caused a lot of problems to Ortec. Another great thing of Resovia was their defense. Krzysiek Ignaczak did an amazing job on Tuesday. I really don's understand why Skra didn't want him to play in Bełchatów this year. I think that they were really wrong. Anyway, Igła was incredible. He was 'everywhere' and took every ball from Ortec's players' attacks. Thanks to him, Resovia could do contra-attacks and receive next points. The block was working great too. Young Holland player, Kooy, who is pretty good, on Tuesday couldn't make lot of effective attacks because Resovia's block didn't allowe him to do this.
After this winning the teams had to play the 'gold set'. Tis is something like tie break (so only to 15 points) and the teams must play it in Challange Cup if both of them wone one match and they have to settle which of them will promote to the next level. This set was very nervous for me (and I think for other fans too) and of course for the players. Resovia had 3 points more than Ortec (12:9), but Holland players won next 3 points and it was 12:12. It wasn't the end of emotions. Resovia finally won the 5th match point! The gold set ended with the score 18:16. Now, we had second team in the 'final four' of European cups. Polish League's getting better.

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