Chieri '76 vs Novara | Italian Volleyball LVF SerieA1 2024/2025

Watching from the sideline with talking to his team. For the first swing. Ishikawa tries to squeeze that ball inside the block. Chopstick gets another go. Third bite of the cherry. Well, let's say three is a magic number. The USA squad in the PNL. Games. Tight set. It shapes up all so well. With this platform for Myles Wyatt. Ishikawa does get the angle this time. Looking for a few points to go. Monster player. Comes up with the serve. What a brilliant reach. Ishikawa tries to drop that ball short. But another middle attack this time coming in. Dream start. In front of the home crowd. Has to change it up. Takes out. Forgets about Skinner on the back line. Lovely tape from Oh, what an angle. What a reach in Turkey. Another tight pressure. Serve. Keep it alive and then all they can do is just watch that ball. Ball now. It's all the hitters. Finding the rhythm. Find the range. It's a really nice set. So look for the first real required for Kerry but the scoreline's a little bit tighter. Here he's snatching at the ball. Not able to get the attack away. And Aleksic says, thank you very much. I'll have that one through the middle. And this one is good. A first point against. Good aggressive swing. Nice take. Second time of asking into the block. It's kept alive. Is he going to drift over? It is. Great work from Kerry. But Navara come with Ishikawa to put it away. And now confusion sets in for Kieri. Quick attack down the centre. Powerful swing. Two point difference here for Kieri. No mistakes with the footwork there from Tatiana Tolok. Navara just been able to put the ball away. A little bit more frequency here in this second. Back to serve. Tolok dissects the two defensively between one and two. Serving against a former employer. That's one short on Again, it's a massive block. Back to back blocks that make such an impact to the game. Skinner. Left-handed. Comes over. Oh, confusion for Kieri. Just required three. Oh, it's on the corner. It isn't a serve right in the corner. Coming in to serve. Sixteen twenty-four down. First time asking. Ishikawa knocks it on the side of Kieri. And takes the set. Twenty-five sixteen. They level the game out. It's tight. Kieri, can they put it away? Ishikawa has to set the ball behind the head into early. Skinner. Ishikawa into the block. Fall across the left hand side. That has enough. Up in on the ball. Drop it into play. From the back line, big aggression from Ishikawa. Recycled for Kieri. Skinner. Oh, the snap of the wrist. Lovely. To really get up that ball in. So it's so that the Nardi has shifted all the way across there. Top lock. Orfasio has found that relationship with her opposite. Tight one-handed set. Big block. Should have gone the way for Kieri. Skinner wants it back though and gets it back. with the serve. Down the line. That one's gone through the block but picks up nicely. Chance for Kieri but no! Shuts out block from Navarro. Who wants a block? Ishikawa do from the service line. Nothing about it that she can do because that ball gets received well. Ishikawa using it well. Nice position on the block from Kieri. They're going to get a free ball back from it. Wants to run the middle. The slide attack. First slide we've seen in the game for Kieri. Navarro read it well and somehow get the point back. Nice side out with Skinner. Skinner tries to hammer that ball down the line. Lovely set. Seven points difference now. It's another tight one for Manala to deal with. Nice play. Spirito with the jump set on the pipe attack for thirteen seventeen. Back to the timeout. It's immediate response. Ishikawa way off the net. Oh it's still alive. Skinner. Ishikawa. Well the ball was on the money for Ishikawa. Competition last year. Seems about apt. There's a great ace serve on the angle. Come in for Bosio on the set. This time goes back to Lina Alsmaier. Bosio's won a third battle at the net. Kieri fans there in the blue t-shirts making all the noise. Great pick up from Chiquelle. And Skinner turns it around. Puts her hands up through the net to arm Chiquelle there. Look at that. Take. Skinner. Six four. It's tight. Chance here for Kieri. Sets us out though. Skinner says cross court. causing trouble from the service line and now it's a free swing coming in for Skinner. Four points for Skinner. Tight from Bosio. Great reach. That's why with a nice platform. Tolok off the block. It's going to go to Alsmaier. Let's turn that ball behind her head. This one's dropping in short. Bosio to the back line to Ishikawa to put it away. Eleven thirteen. Chiquelle down the line on the serve. It's gone wide. They've done it. Kieri beat Igor Gorgonzola Nevada by three sets to two.