IMOCO VOLLEY vs PRAIA CLUBE | Highlights | Women's Club World Champs 2024
May 27, 2025
IMOCO VOLLEY vs PRAIA CLUBE | Highlights | Women's Club World Champs 2024. With outstanding blocking effort and too many unforced errors by the opponents, Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano mastered a 3-0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-15) sweep of their opener against Brazil’s Dentil Praia Clube Uberlandia. The European team’s middle blocker Sarah Fahr and Brazilian outside hitter Gabriela Guimaraes led the squad with 12 points, including three kill blocks, each. Chinese outside Zhu Ting and Swedish opposite Isabelle Haak added another 11 points apiece, while Dentil Praia’s Russian outside Sofya Kuznetsova scored a match-high 14 points. Her American cross-court teammate Payton Caffrey also reached the double digits with 10 points, including three aces.
She will celebrate her 38th birthday this week. Many awards for her. Best blocker in both the
Brazilian and the Italian League. Gabby is a power tip, if you will. There's Haak.
And as great opposites do, she gets them out of a jam. Targeting Kuznetsova. The block is there.
Be pushed over. Free ball. Chance Konoliano to get within one.
Oh, they might not be so easy. And eventually Haak wins the point.
Puerto Rico and Greece and Turkey and even in the U.S. and Vegas.
Oh, that's going to be kept alive. It went off either the shoulder or the head of Xu Ting.
Back comes Stente Praia again. Haak with a solo block. They come again.
Ticked up by Boas. That means DiGennaro's got to set it. And Haak's got a tip.
14 of their 20 wins have come in sweeps. How amazing is that?
Another system attack coming from Xu Ting. Oh, beautiful. Konoliano, no losses.
Kuznetsova, that's a nice dig. Gabby can't finish. Kuznetsova again, shut down through the middle.
Targeting Gabby. Here's Haak with a tip. Oh, it's a clever little tip. Boas, good coverage.
And nice heater from Kuznetsova. Somewhat close. Xu Ting from nowhere. Set point. Konoliano,
they're up by five. Seems like it's been a lot tighter than that. And the lead is down to four
as Naya Reid comes through with a good one. And a rocket shot will finish it off for Haak.
Opening set. It was in jeopardy for quite a while for Konoliano, but when all is said and done,
the champs. And let's go. Second set. Second match of the tournament.
The back set from Vowas into the wheelhouse. Vowas, though, has the most time put in here.
Eight seasons with the team, and she has just counted an ace.
Carol Gatas sending it at Xu Ting. And that is just a rocket shot from Haak
that we're seeing today from the lineup we saw last week in the Italian league.
And we might see a different lineup in their next game in the tournament.
Part of this international cast of stars on Konoliano.
And they shut down another one of the internationals.
That's so much height, she doesn't really have to jump.
And it's an ace for Xu Ting. Cafri serve picked up by Lukasik, who's just come out onto the floor.
Gabby, cross court, comes with thunder. Nairi, the 28-year-old American.
I beg your pardon, that was Adelizia, the 38-year-old Brazilian. The cameraman thinks.
Ends up going at Puginato, and at least Xu Ting gets to swing at it.
Well, these teams will both play the other two teams of the pool, Red Rockets and LP Bank
from Vietnam. Red Rockets from Kawasaki in Japan. Xu Ting makes something out of nothing.
Macris sends it at Gabby, and there's Farr, or at least Chepchela on the backslide play.
Boas, jump set, Gabby, no, Doug. Macris sets it for Kuznetsova, who sneaks one in.
Someone like Monica DiGennaro has played over 300 games for her national team.
And the blocking is there. Juliana again. Haak with tries to tip, good self-coverage.
And Gabby, she does not, not once, not twice, three times, best setter at the Champions League
on five different occasions. We're underway, third set. Will it be the final set?
Dental Pariah trying to come up with some answers here. Here's Gabby, and that's going to get point
number one scored for Conigliano. Good comeback point for Pariah. Pariah also changed out,
has Milka Marcilia in that middle blocker. So yeah, trying to change some things.
And there it is, for coach Santoretti. Isabel Haak, all of those awards to her name.
And the rocket launch, and a 9-4 score, and there's not too many leavers that coach
Marco Miranda has to push and to pull, which means that Pariah's next game will be against
Japan's Red Rockets. Oh, sneak it down, Capri, with Vowash in the back.
Well, that was beautiful. Pariah got the block point, in fact. 14 serving 8, third set.
Conigliano won the first two, but they haven't been able to do so much since then.
Try again to attack. Xu, or at least the setter, Seki, jumps in to take that.
Oh, great dig by Gabby. Adegwe, that's going to be out, and there's no touch on that one.
Hall of Famer Bob Lanier. Different sport, of course.
I'm glad that she chose volleyball, that's for sure. Dynamite player Lanier.
Oh, the one-arm stab by DiGennaro. They come again, Doug. Adegwe, play kept alive,
they come again with Lanier. No, her first point eludes her, and the point finally won.
Sara Farb. Rocket launch from Capri, and she is back to serve. The 26-year-old from Florida.
Oh, Capri's got an ace! And there it goes, coming off both players. And another ace!
In fact, that last point was by Priscilla, by the way. But it is match point, and it is match over.
Kona Liano takes it.