The under 17 team of Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza he closed his adventure in the National Category Phase with a fifteenth place, which will award the tricolor tomorrow. And in which the red and whites participated for the second time at the start of the event 28 teams representing all of Italy. Committed since Thursday in Lanciano in the province of Chieti in the National Finals of the category, the red and white team after finishing in fourth place in their final group, this morning in the Semifinal for 9th – 16th place was defeated by the same age group of Invicta Volleyball Grosseto by 3-1 (25-21, 19-25, 25-22, 25-16 for the Tuscans). Then in the afternoon, in the final for 15th place, they beat the Sardinian team of Cus Cagliari 3-0 (27-25, 25-18, 25-15).
The adventure therefore ends for the Under 17s in the National Final in which they participated, for the second time in a row, thanks to the victory of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Championship against the Bologna Volleyball team. The red and white team was forced to face almost the entire event without Manuel Zlatanov: the young red and white spiker was injured during the first set of the first match played with Cucine Lube Civitanova and never returned to the court for the rest of the event. The extent of the injury will be assessed in the next few days. Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza was included in group F together with Cucine Lube Civitanova first classified in the Marche, Volley Treviso first classified in Veneto and Pallavolo Bologna which won the qualifying group B.
After the debut with defeat in the tie break against Cucine Lube Civitanova (24-26, 25-13, 23-25, 25-17, 15-13 for the Marches), the young red and whites were defeated in the second match of the group by Volley Treviso 3-0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-13 for the Venetians). In the third match played with Pallavolo Bologna leading by two sets, the red and whites then prevailed at the tie break: 25-21, 25-16, 19-25, 13-25, 18-16. The Gas Sales Bluenergy Volley Piacenza Under 17 squad at the national final stage: Leonardo Molesti, Nicola Volpato, Lorenzo Balordi, Leonardo Alessi, Federico Luciani, Manuel Zlatanov, Gianmarco Barretta, Roberto Paounov, Lorenzo Gabellini, Alessandro Balatri, Gabriele, Elio Capurri, Lorenzo Basso, Russell Medici. Herdsmen Renato Barbon, Nicola Barbon.
