Sunday 18.11.2012
Volley Toggenburg - VBC Cossonay 3:0 (25:23, 28:26, 25:21)
TSV Düdingen - Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen 0:3 (16:25, 23:25, 21:25)
TSV Düdingen: Lakovic, Sundström, Lejczyk, Mueller, Otasevic, Munoz, Salgado (L). Also: Belli, N.Dietrich.
Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen: Becker, Senn, Jarotta, Frankova, Alphonse, Winter, Haussener (L). Also: Ayer.
TSV Düdingen without: Vanis, Cipri and Heidrich. Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen without: Tschopp.
Best Player Awards: Nadine Alphonse (Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen) and Lina Sundström (TSV Düdingen).
My impressions (as a spectator of this match): It was a very important match for both teams. Both of them had to win this match to stay in touch with the fifth place (the Top 5 teams will play in the Playoff Round). Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen was clearly the team with the better serves, causing permanent problems in Düdingen's reception. Therefore Düdingen rarely could play fast balls with their MB's and their attacks were quite often blocked. On the other side, the reception of Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen was solid most of the time, so their young Swiss setter Jarotta had the opportunities to play fast balls with the two MB's (Becker, Alphonse), which she did very well.
Ranking:
1. Volero Zürich 11 30 (33:7 sets)
2. VC Kanti Schaffhausen 11 23 (27:14 sets)
3. Volley Köniz 12 22 (27:19 sets)
4. Hôtel Cristal VFM 11 21 (23:15 sets)
5. Sagres NUC 11 19 (22:20 sets)
6. Sm'Aesch Pfeffingen 12 19 (22:21 sets)
7. TSV Düdingen 12 13 (17:27 sets)
8. Volley Toggenburg 12 6 (8:31 sets)
9. VBC Cossonay 12 3 (8:33 sets)