For­mer T&T se­nior na­tion­al women’s team vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack-Kisal was one of three play­ers in dou­ble-fig­ure scor­ing as Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it came from be­hind to beat Sariy­er BLD in four sets to go top of the Voda­fone Turkey Women’s Vol­ley­ball Sul­tans League on Sat­ur­day.

Play­ing at home, Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it got a joint match-high 21 points from Iri­na Voronko­va while Mar­ty­na Czyr­ni­an­s­ka added 17, Yaprak Erkek 14, and 30-year-old mid­dle-block­er Jack-Kisal 13 as they over­came a 23-25 first set loss to reg­is­ter a hard fought win, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23 in the next three sets­for their 11th win in 12 match­es, and 31 points, the same as Vak­if­bank (11-1), and Fener­bache Opet (10-1), the lat­ter of whom has a match in hand.

Kim­ber­ley Drewniok al­so tal­lied 21 points to lead Sariy­er, and she got sol­id sup­port from Merve Nezir with 15 points in the loss, their sev­enth de­feat in 11 match­es to stay sev­enth on 13 points, lev­el with Ay­din (4-7) and Galatasaray (4-7), who sits eighth and ninth, re­spec­tive­ly, on the 14-club stand­ings.

The rest of the ta­ble sees the quin­tet of Nilufer (4-7), Cukuro­va (3-8), Be­sik­tas (3-8), PTT (3-8) and Karayy­olari (0-11) oc­cu­py po­si­tions tenth to 14, re­spec­tive­ly.

Last year, Ecza­cıbaşı topped their 2022/2023 do­mes­tic reg­u­lar-sea­son stand­ings with a per­fect 26-0 record but was swept for the ti­tle by Fener­bahce in the best-of-five se­ries.

Tues­day (De­cem­ber 5), Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­navi, who end­ed last sea­son as the Turkey women’s league and Con­fed­er­a­tion Eu­ro­pean Vol­ley­ball (CEV) Women’s Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley­ball run­ner-up will re­turn to ac­tion in Eu­rope against Bul­gar­ia's Mar­it­sa Plov­div.

Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­navi cur­rent­ly sits sec­ond on the Group B four-team ta­ble with a 2-1 record and six points af­ter wins against Hun­gary's Vasas (27-25, 25-21, 25-17), and Plov­div (25-13, 25-16, 25-20) was fol­lowed by a loss against Ital­ians Scan­dic­ci, 14-25, 27-25, 27-25, 25-23.

Scan­dic­ci leads the stand­ings with a per­fect 3-0 record and nine points while Plov­div is third with a 1-2 mark and two points and Vasas is in the bot­tom spot with a 0-3 mark and one point.

Last sea­son, Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it came up short in their bid to claim the CEV Women’s Cham­pi­ons League Vol­ley­ball crown af­ter los­ing out in four sets to de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Vak­if­bank in Turin, Italy.