First round is a past, Siatkarz Wielun broke the ice

The league of the European champions started! Yesterday the first round of PlusLiga came to the end. Let’s see, how particular teams got through this.

 

 

Siatkarz Wielun – Skra Belchatow 1:3  (19:25, 21:25, 25:20, 23:25)
It was an inauguration of the season. David against Goliat. Although Skra run on the court without greatests stars like Wlazly, Winiarski or Antiga, they seemed to be very confident and it wasn’t nothing suprising. Jakub Novotny, another player who has got some health problems, also didn’t appear during the game. Instead of him, young and unexperienced Milosz Hebda got his chance (it was quite controversial, because polish federacion had to broke their rule to let Hebda play). He got 11 points. Match was interesting in the third set, when the alternates of Wielun was taken by their coach. Zajder and Blonski showed really good game and it helped Wielun to won this set. The last part of the game was also exciting, but in the end, Skra did better and took all three points.

MVP: Daniel Plinski (middle blocker)

ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle – Delecta Bydgoszcz 2:3 (25:15, 21:25, 25:22, 22:25, 13:15)
It was definietely the most exciting match of the weekend. Zaksa was the favourite and it looked like they were going to won this match 3:1. But we have to remember, that Delecta got some really good players and they had no intention to gave up. After really nice fight, they won fourth set and we had a tie break. It was the great show of spikers, gold medalist from last European Championships – Jakub Jarosz and Piotr Gruszka. The second one of them got a little injury in the end of the match but it is not very dangerous thing. Tie break bring to polish fans a lot of emotions, but after all, more satisfactied team was Delecta Bydgoszcz.

MVP: Jakub Jarosz

Jastrzebski Wegiel – AZS Poltechnika Warszawska 3:0 (25:19, 25:23, 25:21)
It was debiut of Pawel Abramov as Jastrzebski’s player and Radoslaw Panas as a head coach of AZS (previously he had got the team from Czestochowa). Russian reciever got 14 points (but the best in JW was Australian spiker, Igor Yudin 19 points). Hosts of the game hadn’t got any problems with beat their rival. It’s a big dissapointment for fans from the capital.

MVP: Benjamin Hardy (reciever)

Jadar Radom – Asseco Resovia Rzeszow  0:3 (21:25, 18:25, 18:25)
It was meeting of two quite new teams. Jadar Radom, which got well in pre-season tournaments, couldn’t stop their rivals. Althougt, Radom started this match really ambitiously (especally in defence), Resovia dominated all the way. They didn’t let Jadar to have their lead for a long time and they were playing better and better. Radom didn’t give up for two sets, but in the end of this, Marcin Wika served very well and got three aces. It didn’t motivate Jadar to fight and the last part was just a formality. Asseco Resovia got three points and went back to Rzeszow.

MVP – Marcin Wika

AZS Czestochowa – AZS Olsztyn (25:13, 25:22, 25:18)
It was the most dissapointing game of all. Everybody expected well fight of two youg teams. At the beginning, game was pretty nice and ball didn’t fell on the court quickly. After first technical time, AZS Olsztyn got worse and Czestochowa could build a big distance. They won this set and the rest of the match was similar. The strongest weapon of Czestochowa was for sure their serve. They got 13 aces (include Bartosz Janeczek with 7 aces) during only three sets! In addition, serves of the other players was difficult enough to win this game quickly. AZS Olsztyn has reasons to worry. In the next week, they are meeting Siatkarz Wielun.

MVP – Bartosz Janeczek