Cuban Marlon Yant was one of the mainstays of Lube Civitanova's success over Cisterna in the seventh round of the Italian Volleyball Super League 2023.
Havana, February 6 (JIT) - Cuban Marlon Yant was one of the mainstays of Lube Civitanova's success over Cisterna in the seventh round of the Italian Volleyball Super League 2023.
With the 20-25, 25-18, 25-23 and 27-25 victory, Lube remains in fourth place in the standings with 30 points, thanks to 10 wins and eight setbacks.
The young Villaclareño was the top scorer of the match with 17 points. The other player with double digits was the Bulgarian Nikolov Aleksandar (16), according to the official website of the championship.
Yant totaled 16 effective attacks in 28 attempts for a 57% efficiency rate. He also added one direct service ace, 42 % of positive actions and 32 % of excellence in reception.
Another young player, José Miguel Gutiérrez, of the rival team, had nine units (7-1-1), the third most productive of his team.
Giant center Robertlandy Simón once again stood out for Piacenza, but being their top scorer did not prevent the setback against Piacenza's immaculate team with scores of 22-25, 25-22, 25-21 and 25-17.
Simon had a perfect attack 11 times and four times scored directly on serve against the tournament leader, who already has 54 points for his 18 consecutive victories.
Perugia was without opposite Jesus Herrera and Polish nationalized Wilfredo Leon. Julio César Cárdenas, from team Cuba, entered the court fleetingly in the last three sets, but did not score.
In other results, Milano disposed of Padova (25-18, 23-25, 25-20, 25-19). Osniel Mergarejo contributed only four tallies. Trentino also won against Taranto (26-24, 28-26, 25-22) and Verona against Monza (26-24, 25-20, 14-25, 25-21).
The leaders are followed by Trentino and Modena, both with 35 points (11-7), Civitanova (30: 10-8), Verona (27: 10-8), Piacenza (27: 9-9), Milano (26: 9-9), Monza (24: 8-10), Cisterna (23: 7-11), Padova (15: 6-12), Siena (14: 5-13) and Taranto (14: 4-14).
The eighth day of the return challenges are scheduled for next Sunday.
