Nicholas Hoag, mvp of the match

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Trento, 11st February 2018

The atmosphere of the great classic against the historic opponent Piacenza, galvanizes Diatec Trentino. From the already staged matches in the past three times in the Scudetto final, the yellow-blue team collected tonight at the PalaTrento the three points that followed to stay in the race for the fourth place and won at home in SuperLega. After the good performance offered to Latina, an important confirmation for Lorenzetti’s team, who bent the Emilians with an absolutely legitimate 3-0 despite the opponent has struggled with the hosts for two sets, the first and the third. The satisfaction of having closed the contest in just three sets is therefore great, also because the solution with the maximum score allows you to gain a few decimal points in the quotient set compared to Verona (at Monza for 3-1). Dragged by Hoag (mvp of the match with 17 points, a wall, an ace and 56%), which evidently benefits from the form with three spikers, Diatec Trentino has shown off a very effective team attack (58% of team ) and a particularly compact wall (9 blocks), which allowed numerous reconstructions. With Kovacevic and Lanza equally incisive, for Giannelli it was therefore easier to change the game and then also involve Zingel and Eder. Wixo LPR has to recriminate on having wasted the promising advantage gained at the opening of the third set, but Fei and Clevenot alone have not managed to counter the good performance of Diatec.

Below the statistics of 22nd day of SuperLega UnipolSai 2017/18 regular season played tonight at PalaTrento.

Diatec Trentino-Wixo LPR Piacenza 3-0
(25-22, 25-19, 27-25)
DIATEC TRENTINO: Eder 6, Lanza 8, Hoag 17, Zingel 5, Giannelli 5, Kovacevic 12, De Pandis (L); Chiappa (L), Kozamernik, Vettori 1, Teppan. N.e.  Cavuto e Partenio.  Coach Angelo Lorenzetti.
WIXO LPR: Alletti 2, Fei 12, Marshall 6, Yosifov 5, Baranowicz 2, Clevenot 13, Manià (L); Giuliani (L), Kody, Cottarelli, Hershko. N.e. Parodi, Di Martino.  Coach Alberto Giuliani.
REFEREES: Lot from Treviso and Sobrero from Carcare (Savona).
DURATION: 27’, 24’, 29’; tot 1h and 20’.
NOTES: 3.676 spectators, 22.908 euro collected. Diatec Trentino: 9 walls, 3 aces, 16 errors at service, 4 errors in action, 58% in attack, 47% (21%) in reception. Wixo LPR: 4 walls, 3 aces, 15 errors at service, 7 errors in action, 49% in attack, 41% (17%) in reception. Mvp Hoag.

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Match stats sheetSuperLega UnipolSai 2017/18, game day 22 results and standing