Marmara SpikeLeague (1st day)
It’s been a few days, a few weeks surely, that the clues have been converging and piling up to make this lnv season an electric and singular exercise. Behind the Olympics, French volleyball has not lost its flame and this first day of MSL has already lit a first fire. With a champion, Saint-Nazaire, knocked out by a promoted one, AS Cannes (3-2), a leader of the 2023-2024 regular season, Chaumont, fallen in the North, in Tourcoing (3-2), a Alterna Stade Poitevin which made its first clap with Earvin Ngapeth, to celebrate the success over Narbonne (3-1), we entered into the heart of the story without preamble.
Traveling to the Côte d’Azur, the SNVBA led twice but gave way under waves of resistance from Cannes. 9 blocks, 7 aces and 24 points from the Egyptian point guard, Reda Haikal, brought down the champion. Chaumont dropped the ramp at the same time on the TLM grounds, where Pablo Koukartsev (22 pts) remained on the right path from last year.
With nearly 2,500 people, Lawson-Body roared with pleasure at the success of the Alterna Stade Poitevin in Narbonne. For his return to the French first division, thirteen years later, Earvin Ngapeth did things well (16 pts) and put the lid on the last three sets! At his side, the young Serbian point guard, Dusan Nikolic, brought out the “perf” of the weekend (29 pts at 57% in attack).
Finalist last spring, Tours, which has not yet gathered all its strength, on the other hand got its feet in the carpet for its first in Grenon, logically tamed by Montpellier (0-3). With a small 37% in attack and 31 unforced errors, the TVB lacked ferocity and accuracy against a more solid MHSC (11 blocks). Paris won the Paris region derby, winning at Plessis-Robinson (0-3) thanks to a perfectly placed reception (63% positive receptions). Finally, on Sunday, Nice subdued Toulouse (3-1), with a backfiring service (8 aces) and Simon Hirsch on target (19 pts).
Saforelle Power 6 (1st day)
Like their male counterparts, the LNV great ladies worked beautifully on the first meeting of the season. Thus, the two heads of the gondola of the past financial year, Levallois-Paris and Nantes, were seriously shaken. The Ile-de-France champion came out at the last minute, in the last points of the decisive set against Bordeaux, a neophyte at this level (3-2), who slammed 9 blocks under the beard of Bianca Cugno (17 pts) and her friends. The Neptunes of Nantes, despite a strong block (15 blocks) and their fine attacking blade Halimatou Bah (23 pts), also fought for a long time to stun the Moselle beast, the TFOC, (3-2).
Le Cannet, for his part, completely fell by the wayside for his curtain raiser at home, beaten by Marcq-en-Barœul (1-3) and an Alexandra Dascalu who knows these things by heart (21 pts including 3 aces and 3 blocks). Its neighbor Cannes, on the other hand, started well, remaining serious and diligent in front of Quimper (3-0), like its US attacker from Portugal, Lauren Mattews (19 pts at 55%). Of
For its part, the VMA kept Le Pays d’Aix Venelles (3-1) at bay under the agile shoes of Annayka Legros (18 pts at 62% in attack, including 5 blocks).
A serious outsider last season, Vandoeuvre Nancy opened up its squad widely to make short work of France Avenir 2024, finished in 1 hour 11 minutes (3-0), with eleven different scorers. Finally, Béziers remained masters at home in front of Chamalières (3-1). The Slovakian point guard of the Angels, Karin Sunderlikova, made the hottest offensive copy of the day with 25 points.
