Former T&T women’s volleyball middle-blocker Sinead Jack-Kisal and Eczacibasi Dynavit remained in the battle for top spot the Vodafone Turkish Women’s Sultanlar Ligi Volleyball after sweeping Besiktas 25-23, 25-17, 25-8 on Sunday.
For Eczacibasi Dynavit, Tijana Boskovic led the way with 21 points while Alexa Gray added 17, and the pair of Irina Voronkovi, and Jack-Kisal six each in the win, their 18 in 19 matches to move to 52 points, the same as Vakifbank and defending champions Fenerbache Opet..
However, Fenerbache Opet leads with 55 points based on a superior sets won to sets loss ratio.
Turk Hava Yollari is fourth with a 14-6 record and 41points, followed by Kuzeyboru with 12-8 with 32 points, four more than Galatasaray (10-10), and Muratpasa (9-11) with Nilufer (9-10) with 25 in the eighth and final playoff spot.
The rest of the standings are completed by Besiktas (7-13) with 20, Cukurova (6-14) with 21, Aydin (6-14) with 20, Sariyer (5-15) with 18, PTT (5-15) with 16, and Karayollari (1-19) with six at the bottom of the standings.
Yesterday, joint record nine-time winners Eczacıbaşı Dynavit continued their winning form by beating Nilufer 25-20, 25-21, 23-25, 25-13 in their Turkish Cup quarterfinal to set a semifinal against Turk Hava Yollari.
Boskovic led all scorers with 24 points while Alexa Gray had 18, Hande Baladin 16, Javana Stevanovic ten, and Jack-Kisal six in the win while Lucille Gicquel had 17 to lead Nilufer, Beliz Baskir 12, Deniz Uyanik 11, and laura Kunzler, ten.
Fellow nine-time winners Vakifbank who have won the past three editions of the Cup faces Fenerbache, who have won the competition three time in the other semifinal after they both won their last-eight clashes in three straight sets.
Eczacıbaşı Dynavit next faces Galatasaray in league play on Saturday (February 17), before hosting Italians Savino Del Bene Scandicci in the Confederation European Volleyball (CEV) Women’s Champions League quarterfinal home clash four days later.
Last Thursday, Jack-Kisal and her teammates advanced to the (CEV) Women’s Champions League quarterfinals after they swept their round-of-16 series sweep against Ukraine’s SC Prometey Dnipro 25-15, 25-13, 25-16,and 25-20, 25-15, 23-25, 25-16 while Savino Del Bene Scandicci qualified to the last-eight automatically from the group stage, having beaten Eczacıbaşı Dynavit twice in pool play.
In other quarterfinal series, Allianz MTV Stuttgart faces Turkish champions Fenerbache Opet; Italians Allianz Vero Volley Milano meets Poland’s LKS Commercecon Lodz; and the third Italian team in the mix, A. Carraro Imoco Coneglian plays Turkey’s Vakifbank.