The Under 15 team of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza he closed his adventure at the BigMat National Category Final with a sixth place, which took place in Schio in the province of Vicenza. At the start of the event 28 teams representing all of Italy.
The Under 15 scudetto was won by Scuratti DVB who overcame Cucine Lube Civitanova at tie break in the final: 25-18, 23-25, 25-22, 17-25, 15-10 for the Lombards.
In the 5th place final the red and whites were overcome by the Lazio team Marino Pallavolo Bulls 3-1: 22-25, 25-14, 25-12, 25-15 for the Lazio team. Having won the first set, the red and white team then raised the white flag in the following three sets, failing to express their game and fight back against their opponents point for point.
Committed since Thursday in Schio, the red and white team, after finishing in second place in their group in the quarter-finals, were overtaken by Cucine Lube Civitanova while in the 5th-8th place semi-final they brilliantly beat the Ligurian team of ASD 3-0 Colombo Volley Genoa.
During the event, on their own path the red and whites found the two finalist teams for the scudetto: Scuratti Desio in the group, Civitanova in the quarter-finals.
The adventure for the Under 15s in the National Final in which they participated thanks to the victory of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Championship against the Bologna Volleyball team therefore ends with a flattering sixth place.
The red and white Under 15 team is in its third consecutive participation in the National Category Finals: the first year it stopped in the qualifying round, the second it climbed to the second step of the podium behind Treviso and now a sixth place finish.
The red and white team was included in group E together with GRM Club Arezzo first place in Tuscany, Materdomini Volley first place in Puglia and Scuratti DVB who won the qualifying group C.
After the debut with the dry defeat against the Lombard team of Scuratti DVB 3-0 (25-23, 25-15, 25-10), the young red and whites beat Materdomini Volley at the tie break in the second match of the group ( 25-9, 25-18, 23-25, 25-27, 16-14) after finding themselves ahead by two sets to zero. In the third match played against GRM Club Arezzo the red and whites won 3-0 (25-11, 25-19, 25-13).
The Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza Under 15 squad at the national final phase: Elia Aquino, Lorenzo Maffini, Fabrizio Fea, Dylan Cherrez, Diego Capasso, Yassine Chebbi, Fallou Benetti, Alessandro Gualla, Thomas Buzzetti, Giovanni Braghieri, Davide Filagrana, Dimitrije Janicijevic , Lorenzo Bonetti, Alberto Subacchi. All. Massimo Piazzi, Davide Aquino
