Turkey in­ter­na­tion­al and for­mer T&T mid­dle-block­er Sinead Jack-Kisal was the top scor­er for Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it in their stun­ning five-set win over Italy’s Nu­mia Vero Vol­ley Mi­lano on their re­turn to the CEV Zeren Women’s Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley, Wednes­day.

Play­ing at home at the Eczacibasi Sports Hall, in Is­tan­bul, the 32-year-old Jack-Kisal scored 21 points, which in­clud­ed six blocks, to lead four team­mates in dou­ble-fig­ure scor­ing in their 25-21, 20-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-13 tri­umph, which came af­ter one hour and 37 min­utes.

The oth­er play­ers to reg­is­ter dou­ble-dig­it scor­ing for Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it were Ebrar Karakurt, who added 16, Mag­dale­na Stysi­ak, 14, and Dana Lynn Ret­tke, 12, as they im­proved to a 2-1 record and six points, one point be­hind their ri­vals, who suf­fered their first loss in the pool af­ter two wins.

On the op­po­site side of the net, Ital­ian in­ter­na­tion­al Pao­la Egonu had a match-high 27 points, with Re­bec­ca Pi­va get­ting 19, Khalia Lanier 15, and Hena Kurtagtic 13 in the de­feat.

In their first two Pool C match­es, Di­namo de­feat­ed Ser­bians Zeleznicar La­jko­vac 25-12, 25-16, 25-17 be­fore go­ing un­der in five sets to Greece’s Olympia­cos 25-21, 16-25, 25-19, 24-26, 16-18.

Do­mes­ti­cal­ly, last Sat­ur­day, Jack-Kisal, 32, was joint top scor­er as Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it bat­tled to a five-set win over Kuzey­boru when the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League re­sumed af­ter the Christ­mas Hol­i­days break last week­end.

Play­ing at the Ak­saray Sports Hall, Jack-Kisal and Kathryn Bo­den tal­lied 12 points each, while Yaprak Erkek and Ret­tke added 11 each to ral­ly Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it to a 25-21, 26-28, 25-21, 17-25, 15-13 tri­umph in front of 2,000 spec­ta­tors to im­prove their record to an 11-3 win-loss mark and 31 points in the third spot on the 14-team ta­ble, ten adrift of the lead­ers Vak­if­bank, which is un­beat­en at 14-0 and 41 points, with Fener­bache Med­i­c­i­na sec­ond with a 13-1 mark and 39 points, while Galatasaray Daikin is fourth with a 10-4 record and 32 points.

For losers Kuzey­boru, now with a 3-11 record and ten points in the 11th spot, Mal­wina Smarzek had a match-high 22 points, and she got great sup­port from Sara Lo­zo with 20, Mar­ty­na Czyr­ni­an­s­ka with 18, and Di­cle Nur Ba­bat with 11.