The finale of the six, DAY THREE. 14 parties in fire
27.03.2025 / 21:01
On the third day of the final of the six youth volleyball league, the team gave out almost the maximum possible number of sets to the mountain - 14 The th round started on Friday with Ural's home win over Fakel 15. Two Dynamo teams were the first to tighten the struggle. Sosnovoers, Loosing in the debut (19:25), gnawed in the stubborn struggle the next two sets (30:28 and 25:23). Muscovites returned to the game (25:20), but in the tiebreaker “Dynamo-LO-2” deservedly achieved the first victory in its history in the Finals of the Six MVL.
In a head-to-head match between the most titled MVL team - Lokomotiv-SSHOR - and the champion of the last two years - Fakel-Yamal, everything immediately started with a fight, 30:28 in favor of Novosibirsk. "Fakel" takes revenge, 25:22 – and again Lokomotiv claws out an advantage, 30:32. "Torch" persistent: another set with a score 25:22 sends the game to a tiebreaker.
About this in a little more detail. Before the change of sides, the Yamal team managed to lead with two breaks, taking advantage of the knocked out technique of the Novosibirsk residents, 7:5. Vasily Kapranov had a finishing game and a chance to change sides of the court with a good advantage, but the finisher failed. And then Mikhail Vishnyakov from Lokomotiv makes an ace - 7:7! Another excellent serve and again Kapranov fails to decide on a difficult ball, 7:8!
After switching sides, a powerful save from Fakel’s libero helps Kapranov get back from the block (10:10) and as a bonus Vasily gets an ace, 11:10. After the mark 12:12 Vishnyakov confidently withdraws, and the diagonal “Torch” from the second zone makes a fatal mistake, 12:14. Lokomotiv-SSHOR takes risks on serve - net, and the Novosibirsk coaching staff, in which head coach Georgi Petrov was absent, takes two timeouts in a row. The Novosibirsk team wins the decisive ball from the fourth zone from a block into touch and continues to go through the tournament without defeat.
In the last match of the day, YUKIOR tried to beat Zenit-UOR, but failed to cope with the difficult task. More experienced Kazan players played cleaner and deservedly won. The first set ended at 22:25, Surgut residents missed the ending with 22:22. In the second game, the change of setter at YUKIOR led to a monotonous game through the fourth zone, Where, Nevertheless, Serov and Kostadinov managed it - plus the serve flew, 25:22. Complete symmetry in the score in the third and fourth sets turned in favor of Kazan. The games followed approximately the same scenario: equality to mark 9:9, Matvey Pisarev's serve failure, attempted chase and lost endings. The match was finished in beautiful style - with three aces in a row - by the former YUKIOR player, and now – “Academy-Kazan” Alexander Krasilnikov.
2: 3 
Dinamo-LO-2 (Pinery)
2: 3 
Lokomotiv-SSHOR (Novosibirsk)
1: 3 
Zenit-UOR (Kazan)
