France: Round 10 is over - Tourcoing alone to the top! Great comeback for Sète. Tours, Chaumont and Narbonne ok

After the advance played yesterday, in which Poitiers fly to second place after a straight sets win on the field of Cannes, Round 10 of 2024/25 Marmara Spike League has been completed today.
The day started with an amazing comeback for Sète on the field of Toulouse. After being down 2-0, head coach’s Luc Marquet players reacted, and managed to beat the rivals after 2 hours and 31 minutes of play with the score of 2-3 (25:22, 25:18, 23:25, 23:25, 12:15).
They did it despite an excellent Nathan Feral, absolute top scorer of the game with 30 points to his name through 60% in attack with 2 blocks and 1 ace. In a very balanced game, Hugo De Leon Guimarães scored 19 points for the winners with 3 aces, 1 block and 44% in attack, while Daenan Gyimah also contributed with 15 (4 blocks and 55% in attack). Surely not the best day for bomber Tristan Schlienger, who left the court with 11 points, 1 ace and 1 block but with only 33% in attack with 5 errors and blocked 5 times.
To the top of the standings, now with 25 points at +5 from second-placed Poitiers, Tourcoing, who today won in just three sets (24:26, 23:25, 19:25) on the field of defending champions Saint Nazaire, led by an once again decisive Pablo Koukartsev, top scorer of the game with 24 points to his name with 1 block and a great 68% in attack.
Titleholders are now only at 9th place of the current standings with 10 points, together with No.10 Tours, who today won in four sets on the field of Nice, 1-3 (22:25, 25:11, 21:25, 13:25).
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH.
Despite 22 points (56% in attack including 2 aces and 1 block) from Simon Hirsch, author of several decisive points in hot moments of a very nervous match, the hosts surrendered to their rivals, who were led in score by Hermans Egleskalns, who left the court with 21 points to his name with also 2 aces and 1 block and through 58% in attack. Double digit also for Antoine Pothron, who also contributed with 14 (1 block and 68% in attack), Roland Gergye, who added 13, and Leandro Santos, with 11 through 70% in attack, 1 ace and 3 winning blocks.
3 points also for Chaumont, who climbed to third place after a 3-1 (25:22, 17:25, 25:22, 25:21) home win over Paris in almost two hours of play, and for Narbonne, second-to-last prior to this game, over last-placed Plessis Robinson, 3-1 (25:27, 25:17, 25:23, 26:24).
After 2 hours and 7 minutes of play, with 23 points from top scorer Casey Schouten, all in attack, through 64%, and in front of almost 2000 home fans, the winners earned a position in the current charts, boasting now 9 points, at +2 from now second-to-last Paris (7) and at +5 from Plessis Robinson (4).

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🏐| MARMARA SPIKE LEAGUE 2024/25 | JOURNÉE 10 | Round 10

Friday November 22, 2024
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Cannes – Poitiers 0-3 (19:25, 21:25, 22:25)
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH

👉🏼Saturday November 23, 2024

• 18.00 (Local Time) | Toulouse – Sète 2-3 (25:22, 25:18, 23:25, 23:25, 12:15)

• 19.00 (Local Time) | Nice – Tours 1-3 (22:25, 25:11, 21:25, 13:25)
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH

• 20.00 (Local Time) | Chaumont – Paris 3-1 (25:22, 17:25, 25:22, 25:21)

• 20.00 (Local Time) | Narbonne – Plessis Robinson 3-1 (25:27, 25:17, 25:23, 26:24)

• 20.00 (Local Time) | Saint Nazaire – Tourcoing 0-3 (24:26, 23:25, 19:25)

Day Off: Montpellier

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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day):
1. Saems Tourcoing Volley-Ball Lille Metropole 25
2. Alterna Stade Poitevin Volley-Ball Pro 20
3. Chaumont Volley-Ball 52 Haute-Marne 19
4. Montpellier Herault Sporting Club Volley 18
5. AS Cannes 17
6. Nice Volley Ball 16
7. Arago De Sète 13
8. Spacer’s Toulouse Volley 12
9. Saint-Nazaire Volley-Ball Atlantique 10
10. Tours Volley-Ball 10
11. Narbonne Volley 9
12. Paris Volley 7
13. Plessis-Robinson Volley-Ball 4

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🏐| NEXT ROUND | JOURNÉE 11 | Round 11

Friday November 29, 2024
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Tours – Saint Nazaire

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