Poland: What an upset in Plusliga! Czarni Random end Warszawa’s 11-game winning streak!

Cerrad Enea Czarni Radom achieved a sensational victory in the 2019/20 Polish Plusliga regular season by beating leaders VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa. In Round 19, the eighth-placed Czarni stunned the leaders by beating them in four sets (25:19, 22:25, 25:21, 25:23) and increased their chances of qualifying for the playoffs. The team from the Polish capital, whose 11-game winning streak came to an end, failed to extend the match to a tie-break as they squandered a 6-point lead in the fourth set (16:10). Karol Butryn top-scorer for the winners with 24 points while Bartosz Kwolek scored 18 for Warszawa.

Plusliga 2019/20 Regular Season – Round 19

February 14
Indykpol AZS Olsztyn – Slepsk Malow
Suwalki 1-3 (32:34, 23:25, 25:23, 17:25)
Top Scorers: Hadrava 21, Zalinski 15, Andringa 13, Mousavi 11; Boladz 25, Szerszen 20, Sapinsky 10, Takvam 8.
MVP: Sapinsky.

Trefl Gdansk – Cuprum Lubin 3-0 (26:24, 25:17,25:16)
Top Scorers: Filipiak 14, Mordyl 10, Schott 10, Crer 7, Halaba 7; B. Lipinski 6, Ziobrowski 5, Robinson Dvoranen 5, Sacharewicz 5, Domagala
5.
MVP: Mordyl.

February 15
Asseco Resovia Rzeszow – MKS Bedzin 2-3 (23:25, 25:18, 25:20, 20:25, 11:15)
Top Scorers: Schulz 20, Buszek 19, Maréchal 11, Krulicki 10; Sossenheimer 18, Faryna 17, J. Fornal 17, Dryja 12, Gunia 9.
MVP: Pajak.

Cerrad Enea Czarni Radom – VERVA
Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa 3-1 (25:19, 22:25, 25:21, 25:23)
Top Scorers: Butryn 24, B. Sander 18,
Wlodarczyk 9, Ostrowski 9, Pajenk 8; Kwolek 18, Krol 13, P. Nowakowski 9, Tillie 8, Wrona 7.
MVP: Butryn.

February 16
PGE Skra Belchatow – Grupa Azoty ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle 3-2 (25:21, 25:17, 25:27, 21:25, 15:10)
Aluron Virtu CMC Zawiercie – Jastrzebski Wegiel 3-2 (21:25, 19:25, 28:26, 25:22, 15:11)

February 17
GKS Katowice – BKS Visla Bydgoszcz

Standings
VERVA Warszawa ORLEN Paliwa 51
Grupa Azoty ZAKSA Kedzierzyn-Kozle 49
PGE Skra Belchatow 46
Jastrzebski Wegiel 41
Trefl Gdansk 28
GKS Katowice 28
Slepsk Malow Suwalki 25
Cerrad Enea Czarni Radom 25
MKS Bedzin 22
Aluron Virtù CMC Zawiercie 21
Cuprum Lubin 21
Asseco Resovia Rzeszow 21
Indykpol AZS Olsztyn 20
BKS Visla Bydgoszcz 11