Mevza League: tie break win for Waldviertel on the field of Spartak Myjava

Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel needed five sets to defeat hosts TJ Spartak Myjava 25:23, 18:25, 25:27, 26:24 and 16:14 in the Mevza League Main Round on Wednesday evening.
Thus, they moved up to fourth place in the current standing now with 13 points (5-4 win-loss record), while the Slovakian team, on the other hand, dropped to 2-7.
Daulton Sinoski (27) and Marek Sulc (22) were the top scorers of the match among the winners, while Patrik Pokopec (19) and Erik Watzka (16) top-scored on the other side of the net.

Martin Pipa, head coach TJ Spartak Myjava: “That was not the performance we had planned. We were not able to put enough pressure on them with our serve. We also committed a lot of errors in attack. Nevertheless, we were leading 2:1, but we did not manage to finish the match successfully. Congratulations to URW on that victory.”

Zdenek Smejkal, head coach Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel: “If spectators could have been here tonight, they would have seen a match that they definitely would have liked. It was a very close game, as the result confirms, but both teams also committed many mistakes. At the end of the tie-breaker we were the luckier, but also slightly more courageous team.”

Already today, on Thursday, Waldviertel will be facing last-placed VKP Bratislava.

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🏐| MEVZA LEAGUE 2021/22 – Main Round

| December 11, 2021
• SK Zadruga AICH/DOB (AUT) – UVC Holding Graz (AUT) 3-2 (25:20, 25:20, 23:25, 18:25, 15:12)

| December 14
• OK Calcit Kamnik (SLO) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT) 3:0 (25:23, 25:22, 25:23)

| December 17
• Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT) – SK Zadruga AICH/DOB (AUT) 3-1 (20:25, 27:25, 25:16, 25:18)

| December 18
• UVC Holding Graz (AUT) – HAOK Mladost Zagreb (CRO) 0-3 (19:25, 15:25, 17:25)
• ACH Volley Ljubljana (SLO) – OK MERKUR Maribor (SLO) 3-0 (25:22, 25:14, 25:22)

| December 22
• HAOK Mladost Zagreb (CRO) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT) POSTPONED

👉🏼 December 29
• TJ Spartak Myjava (SVK) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT) 2-3 (23:25, 25:18, 27:25, 24:26, 14:16)

| December 30
• VKP Bratislava (SVK) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT)

| January 3, 2022
• OK MERKUR Maribor (SLO) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT)

| January 5
• ACH Volley Ljubljana (SLO) – VKP Bratislava (SVK)

| January 6
• ACH Volley Ljubljana (SLO) – TJ Spartak Myjava (SVK)
• OK MERKUR Maribor (SLO) – VKP Bratislava (SVK)

| January 7
• OK Calcit Kamnik (SLO) – VKP Bratislava (SVK)

| January 8
• OK Calcit Kamnik (SLO) – UVC Holding Graz (AUT)

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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day)
ACH Volley Ljubljana (SLO) 30
OK MERKUR Maribor (SLO) 27
SK Zadruga AICH/DOB (AUT) 14
Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (AUT) 13
HAOK Mladost Zagreb (CRO) 11
OK Calcit Kamnik (SLO) 10
TJ Spartak Myjava (SVK) 7
UVC Holding Graz (AUT) 5
VKP Bratislava (SVK) 3

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Source: Mevza.org