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23 дек. 2010 г.

At last: Lokomotiv claims its first victory in the Superleague.

Last day with three interesting matches the 4th leg of the Azerbaijani Super league came to the end. Lokomotiv Baku claimed its first victory.
In the first match of the tour the leader Rabita Baku tested the young fighters of Adnan Kistak "VC Shirvan". Shirvan tried to show some nice actions but Rabita did not let the girls of Kistak to open their eyes winning the match in three sets 3-0 (25-13: 25-17: 25-16)

The best players of the match were: Bojana Doganjic (Rabita) and Alina Aliyeva (Shirvan)
In th second match of the day another debunant of the Super league "VC Baki" faced Lokomotiv BAku which was hungry for the victory in the local arena. Match started with nice actions of Richards and Metcalf from Loko and new transfer of Baki Juliana Valnte and Sarai Alvarez answered the opponents with not weaker attacks. The first set was closed with win of Loko 25-20 and in the second set Baki won win the same result with great game of the setter Engle and Michaela Manzoni.
The following two sets were staged to a dramatical game,but Loko was not going to lose the match and closed the sets 25-19 and 31-29. 3-1 (25-20: 20-25: 25-19: 31-29)

The best players: Nicole Davis (Lokomotiv) and Juliana Valente (Baki)
The closing match of the tour was between Azerrail and Igtisadchi which had the same points and the result of the match was very important of the ranking case. Igtisadchi played without the head coach,although the new coach of the team Jan de Brandt was in Baku and watching the match from the tribunes.
The first two sets Igtisadchi was looking for "adventures" replacing players in a row and that`s why lost the first two sets 25-27 and 14-25. Polina Rahimova and Jennifer Tamas showed super performance and lead their team to the victory in these two sets. Especially with the strongest aces of Rahimova Igtisadchi had quite serious problems in reception,despite of having such a great player like Yuko Sano,Riikka Lehtonen and Alice Blom.
But the third set was the beginning of Igtisadchi`s coming back. The German setter of Igtisadchi played very big role in that with her serves when the score was 20-16 and Azerrail was very close to win the match in three sets. But Weiss brought the score to 21-23 and with Alice Blom`s perfcet attacks they won the thrid set.
The fourth set showed that Igtisadchi was not going to give up,Fin Riikka Lehtonen and Spanish Marisa Fernandez answered Polina Rahimova and Elisangela Pereira Paulino`s powerful attacks and closed the set in tie-break part - 26-24.
In the fifth set Azerrail was a bit nervous and Igtisadchi had two points advantage but one again rising star of Azerbaijani volleyball Polina Rahimova and American NT captain Jennifer Tamas showed great performance in tie-break and finishd the set 15-12 and the match 3-2 (27-25: 25-14: 22-25: 24-26: 15-12)
The MVP of the match was Polina Rahimova. The best of Igtisadchi was the Dutch star Alice Blom.