France: Round 25 continues - Nice stun Chaumont! Montpellier to the top. 3 points also for Poitiers and Saint Nazaire

After the advance played yesterday,
in which Cannes won on the field of Toucoing at tie break, Round 25 of 2024/25 Marmara Spike League, penultimate of regular season, continued today with other four games, and not without upsets!
One of the news of the day is the amazing win of Nice, who rise to fifth place in the standings, over now former leaders Chaumont, a match that ended in just three hard-fought sets, 3-0 (25:23, 26:24, 25:23).
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH
With a great team performance, and despite the not excellent day of Simon Hirsch (10 points but with only 39% in attack, blocked three times and 1 error), the winners overpowered the rivals above all in blocking, scoring as many as 14 points from this element, 10 more than Chaumont!
Nooa Marttila, Alexandros Raptis and MVP Merrick McHenry led the charge with 11 points each, like Mathis Henno on the other side of the match.
Taking advantage from this result, but also thanks to ther great win over Tours, Montpellier fly to the top of the current charts at +from their closest pursuer, after beating the rivals with the score of 3-1 (25:21, 25:22, 17:25, 29:27).
After more than two hours of intense play, an excellent Alexandre Strehlau left the court as top scorer with 25 points to his name through 71% in attack, 2 blocks and 1 ace for a Tours penalized by some absences, but he wasn’t enough against a great Montpellier, led by Dimitar Dimitrov’s 24 points.
3 points also for defending champions now at 11th place in the standings Saint Nazaire, who celebrated an unexpected win on the field of No.9 Paris 1-3 (21:25, 25:18, 22:25, 20:25), who also say good bye to playoffs, and for No.7 Poitiers, who won in straight sets on the field of already relegated Plessis Robinson, 0-3 (21:25, 23:25, 23:25), with 17 points, 1 ace and 57% in attack from Tomas Pujol.
Round 25 will close tomorrow with the last game between Sète and Narbonne.

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

Friday March 14, 2025
• 20.00 (Local Time) | Tourcoing – Cannes 2-3 (25:16, 23:25, 20:25, 25:10, 13:15)

👉🏼Saturday March 15, 2025

• 18.00 (Local Time) | Paris – Saint Nazaire 1-3 (21:25, 25:18, 22:25, 20:25)

• 19.00 (Local Time) | Plessis Robinson – Poitiers 0-3 (21:25, 23:25, 23:25)

• 19.00 (Local Time) | Nice – Chaumont 3-0 (25:23, 26:24, 25:23)
| PHOTOGALLERY OF THE MATCH

• 20.00 (Local Time) | Montpellier – Tours 3-1 (25:21, 25:22, 17:25, 29:27)

Sunday March 16, 2025
• 17.00 (Local Time) | Sète – Narbonne 1-3 (25:20, 23:25, 23:25, 19:25)

Dayoff: Toulouse

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🏐| STANDINGS (updated on this day):
1. Montpellier Herault Sporting Club Volley 51
2. Chaumont Volley-Ball 52 Haute-Marne 48
3. Saems Tourcoing Volley-Ball Lille Metropole 45
4. Tours Volley-Ball 43
5. Nice Volley Ball 41
6. Spacer’s Toulouse Volley 39
7. Alterna Stade Poitevin Volley-Ball Pro 37
8. AS Cannes 34
9. Paris Volley 27
10. Arago De Sète 23
11. Saint-Nazaire Volley-Ball Atlantique 22
12. Narbonne Volley 20
13. Plessis-Robinson Volley-Ball 15

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🏐| NEXT ROUND | JOURNÉE 26 | Round 26

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