The penultimate round of the cadet championships brings a lot of joy to our local volleyball.
In B1 female success never in question for the Rothoblaas Flywheel, with the Lagarine Corsairs on the Volley Academy Sondrio field in three one-sided sets: 16-25, 17-25, 14-25. With this success, coach Parlatini’s Lagarine remain in fourth place in the standings with 46 points in 23 matches, just one point behind the playoff zone occupied by Giorgione, Vicenza and Fantini Cremona. On the last day of the championship, an internal match for Lagarine on Saturday evening against Cr Transporti Ripalta of Ripalta Cremasca, eighth in the standings and now calm. To hope to get into the playoffs and therefore among the top three, you will need to win on the last day and then hope for a few missteps up front.
In women’s B2 series the leaders Argentario Trentino Energie wins in three sets in Lurano and mortgage, with a round to spare and thanks to the ninth consecutive success, the victory of the group and the qualification from top of the class to the promotion playoffs towards B1. The success with scores of 22-25, 19-25 and 26-28 at Volley Lurano gives the team a +4 over Promoball Sanitars Brescia in the standings with just one matchday to go before the end of the regular season. With this first place now in the safe, Argentario earns the right to compete for direct promotion to B1 in the double match with the first place in group C.
That is, one between Sarmeola Padova (57 points), Officina del Volley Padova (57) and Usma Padova (55) who will compete for first place on the last day. On the weekend of 18 and 19 May the first leg play-off will most likely be played in Padua, while the return match will be played in Trento on 25/26 May if Argentario finishes with more points (today they are 58) than their opponent. The winner of this play-off goes directly to B1, the loser goes to play the playoffs with the runners-up from the other groups.
The streak of consecutive victories also stops at nine Studio55 Ata Trento. Coach Marco Mongera’s girls must fall to Almenno San Bartolomeo, in the Bergamo area, in the fifth set (25-20, 20-25, 25-22, 20-25, 15-11) at the home of the third-to-last in the rankings. And thus the dream of second place for the Atines, fourth in the standings with 49 points, now 5 points away from second place, is also mathematically interrupted. The Studio55 championship will thus end next Saturday, at home, against second-placed Promoball Sanitars Brescia.
In men’s B serieswith the playoffs now in the safe for some time, the victory in the fifth set (25-21, 17-25, 19-25, 25-22 and 15-12) won tonight at Sanbapolis against Trebaseleghe from Treviso allows theUniTrento dremain at the top of the standings with 64 points, two more than Monselice with whom they will compete for first place on the last day. One last round, Saturday, in which the derby will be played against the now quiet Bolghera at Sanbapolis.
In the event of a victory by at least 2 points and therefore guaranteed first place, coach Conci’s UniTrento will be placed in a group with the first-placed teams from groups A (Sant’Anna Torino 58 points or Caronno 57) and B (Scanzorosciate 60 points) with which a triangular match will be played. That is, an all-against-all Italian round, for baby Itas there will be three matches (18/19 May, 21/22 May and 25/26 May) which will directly promote the first place to A3. In the event of a second place finish in the regular season, the same triangular tournament will be played, but obviously among the runners-up, or in the event of defeat in this triangular tournament, the second phase of the playoffs will be played, i.e. a new triangular tournament to look for the last passes for the A3 .
Painless defeat, in the last home match, for the Bolghera Trentino lost in four sets (21-25, 25-23, 25-27, 21-25) at the hands of Volley Treviso. With this defeat, coach Matteo Saurini’s Bolghera also mathematically bids farewell to the dream of a third place finish, falling to seventh place in the rankings with 42 points.
In the photo the girls of Argentario Trentino Energie rejoice
