Volleyball: Sète youth had to lay down their arms against Plessis-Robinson

Avec seize points, Rippert a montré de belles choses mais cela n’a pas suffi. MIDI LIBRE – Jérôme Belluire

Privé de Cardin et Zanotti, l’Arago n’a pas pu imposer sa loi, ce dimanche 7 janvier à domicile (2-3).

Caught at the entrance (1-4), the Sétois will have spent the entire first set chasing after their delay. Coming back to 8-8, they were left behind again on an ace from Firkal (10-14). Later, Gauna sounded the revolt. The Argentinian's heavy defensive work allowed them to get back to 18-18, then finally take the lead thanks to a block on Jouffroy. Rippert, in turn repelling an attack from Wounembaina, increased the score to 20-18 at the same time as the temperature of Barrou.

Las, the reception weakened and the Parisians rushed into the breach, turning to 20-22 after a missed attack from Rippert. Henry then blocked Gonzalez to end the set (22-25).

The awakening

In the second act, unable to put a ball on the ground, the Sétois found themselves in great difficulty (2-7, then 6-12). But little by little, they tightened the defensive bolts and, as the visitors made mistakes, the situation ended up being reversed thanks to a good service from Rippert (18-17). We then thought about moving on to the third set when Arago turned to 24-21 but Henry, on the block, kept the suspense going. Not too long fortunately (26-24).

The rest was disputed, the biggest gap was at 16-14. But Le Plessis closed the ranks and everything accelerated with a block from Canovas, an ace from Wounembaina and two unforced errors: 20-25.

A poorly negotiated tie-break

Among the visitors, we only relied on the stainless Wounembaina, but the Sétois held on and ended up obtaining the right to go to the tie-break (25 -23).

Weary, undermined by some errors of judgment or discipline, they saw their opponents slip away at 7-11 after a counter from Jouffroy on Gonzalez. On serve as well as in attack, Diop then sounded the revolt, also taking advantage of a Jeanlys in distress, and Arago recovered as if by a miracle at 12-12. However, that was all for Sète, which ended up laying down its arms after a final block from Henry on Rippert (13-15)…

The technical sheet

► Arago de Sète…………..2
► Plessis-Robinson………3

Halle du Barrou
Around 700 spectators
Set details: 22-25 in 26’, 26-24 in 31’, 20-25 in 26’, 25-23 in 29’, 13-15 in 17’.
Referees: MM. Collados and Galant.

Sète : 4 aces (Diop 3), 60 winning attacks (Diop 23), 12 blocks (Gauna 5), ​​21 unforced errors ( including 11 missed serves).
Starting six: Garcia (then Rajoharivelo), Rippert (16 points), Gonzalez (11, then Beriot), Kreek (4, then Hrytsenko 3), Gauna ( 15). Libero : Devèze

Plessis-Robinson : 7 aces (Jouffroy), 68 winning attacks (Jeanlys 17), 16 blocks (Henry 7), 30 unforced errors (including 13 missed serves).
Starting six: Iglesias (4 points), Jeanlys (19, then Canovas 7), Firkal (10), then Ronkainen, Wounembaina (20), Henry (14 ), Jouffroy (15). Libero : Debès.