sinead Jack-Kisal, a former T&T international volleyballer, and Canada's Alex Gray had a joint team-high 11 points as newly crowned FIVB Women’s Club World Championship Volleyball champions Eczacıbaşı Dynavit Istanbul made a winning return to the Vodafone Turkey Women’s Volleyball Sultans League yesterday.
This after Eczacıbaşı Dynavit Istanbul swept past PTT, 25-17, 25-16, 25-12, with Irina Voronkova adding ten points for the winners, Yaprak Erkerk eight and Beyza Arici seven in the win, their 12th from 13 matches to move into second on the 14-club standings with 34 points, three behind Fenerbache Opet, the defending champions who also have a 13-1 record but 37 points while VakifBank is third with 31 points ahead of their clash with fourth-placed Kuzeyboru (9-3).
Kuzeyboru and Turk Hava Yollari (8-5) are next on the table with 25 and 23 points, respectively.
On the opposite side of the net, Yaemin Ozel also had a game-high 11 points for PTT with Merve Tanyel the next best scorer with eight, and Merve Cepni, five as they fell to a ninth loss in 13 matches to remain 12th on the table with 12 points, the same as Besiktas Ayos while Sariyer and Aydin both with the same 4-9 mark have 14 points each in the ninth and tenth positions, respectively.
Last Sunday, Jack-Kisal and her Eczacıbaşı teammates who topped their 2022/2023 domestic regular-season standings with a perfect 26-0 record but was swept for the title by Fenerbahce Opet in the best-of-five series, outlasted fellow Turkish club VakifBank in five sets in the final of the 16th edition of the FIVB Women's World Club Championships.
Playing at the Dragon Sports Centre of the Tianjin People’s Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China, Eczacıbaşı won 19-25, 25-23, 25-23, 23-25, 15-9 with the former T&T international, one of four players to score in double figures for the winners to claim their third world title, after 2015 and 2016, and their sixth overall medal.
