Women’s Volley League: Qualifying thriller for Aris, defeats Thetis in gold set

After a thrilling game, Aris managed to earn a ticket to the Volley League semifinals by beating Thetida Voula’s resistance in the golden set.

Aris had won 3-1 last Wednesday and needed two sets to qualify, but Thetis made an impressive comeback and led the turn to the golden set where the Mercado breakout gave Aris the lead to end the match by one loss assess serve.

The game: In the first set, Thetis entered the driving position from the first points while Aris was constantly chasing the score (5-8, 8-8, 10-12, 13-14), but 17-19 became 17-23 with the to reaching guests 0-1.

In the second set, Aris started much better and quickly reached +4 (6-2), which it kept until 9-5, which went to 9-9 with errors from Mercado, while Thetis ran a new series at 10-9 and that 10- reached. 13. Aris reduced to the point with two blocks (12-13), but at 16-17 Dragoumanou’s performances caused terrible problems receiving Aris, who was at -5. After Tsairelis’ time-out, Aris closed in at 18:21 and lost a double counterattack in the next stage (18:22 to Mercado) to end the second set at 19:25.

Same scenario in set three, Aris leads 11-9 but accepts a new series at 11-13 while Thetida reaches 13-17. Aris made one last attempt to reduce to 19-20, losing a double draw to reach 23-24 where Martha Anthouli sent the series to the golden set with a terrible attack from three yards.

There Thetis put on an impressive performance and very quickly reached the 0-3 (Papageorgiou block in Mercado, but Aris quickly conceded the difference (3-4) and led 6-5 with a block in Anthouli and a red card in protest. The Guests recaptured the lead (6-7 attack from Anthouli) but at 8-9 Mercado’s breakout brought the ups and downs.

Ari’s diagonal tied 9-9 and formed with two blocks (in Peralta and Akta) for an 11-9, followed by two attacks from Evans to make it 13-9, with the Yellows reaching a four-way match bowl (14-10).

Anthouli got the change, Rousis threw Dragoumanou into the match for service and the score went 14-13 (out Mercado, Anthouli attack) with the thrill peaking but ingloriously ending as Dragoumanou netted the service and up the Mars sent semi-finals of the championship.

Aris – Thetis 0-3 (15-13 gold set)

The sentences: 18-25, 19-25, 23-25 ​​(gold set: 15-13)

TO LET. ARIS (Yiannis Tsairelis): Kioutsiouki, Merkado, Drakoulidou, Mylona, ​​​​Swan, Evans/Kourtidou (l), Kambouri (l), Tani, Gaitanidou, Lappa.

Α.Σ.Π. Thetis (George Rousis): Sirinina, Peralta, Anthouli, Rousnatsenko, Aktas, Papageorgiou / Maniatogianni (l), Dragoumanou, Panagopoulou.