Key victory for CV Hidramar Gran Canaria’s aspirations to regain the lost leadership of the Iberdrola League. Under the command of Fran Carballo, the yellow teams have recovered the competitive tone that made them league champions last year. After defeating Tenerife Libby’s La Laguna and Cajasol in Seville in the Super Cup final, the Gran Canarian team managed to knock down an Avarca de Menorca team that landed on the island as the sole leader of the championship.
Once again Saray Manzano and Sulián Matienzo, with 17 and 16 points respectively, led the attack of an Olympic team in which Ale Álvarez Del Burgo once again sets the standard as one of the best setters in the League. The Vigo player led the yellow team’s game in the first two sets in which they erased their rival from the court to go 2-0 in the blink of an eye (25-15 and 25-23).
Not even the reaction of the Balearic Islands in the third set, spurred on by an immense Gabriella Amaral, served to achieve a comeback that was stifled beyond the partial defeat in the third set by 14-25.
It was precisely in the fourth set when the yellow team brought out their best game to finish the match with a 25-16 score that gave them their fifth victory of the season. A triumph with which Fran Carballo’s pupils sleep third while waiting for tomorrow’s results between Heidelberg and Kiele and Sayre and Haro Rioja, which could cause some variation.
