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ANCH M: Egypt with another win

by WoV
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Egypt came one more step towards fifth consecutive crown as they secured the third straight victory against Libya 3-1 (25-16, 25-14, 23-25, 25-16) in the third day of the 2013 Men's African Nations Championship held in Sousse, Tunisia.

Egypt has maximum score

Egypt has maximum score

Egypt led easily 2-0 before the Libyan team entered the match late in the third set to improve to 1-2 before the Egyptians regained their consistency to win the fourth set and the match 3-1. Egypt improved their win-loss ratio to 3-0 raising their points to 9. Libya dropped to 0-3 and still with 0 points.

Tunisia came back late to clinch a tough five set win over Algeria 3-2 (25-23, 24-26, 18-25, 25-22, 16-14) in a fantastic 135 minutes of thrilling volleyball.

In another grueling tiebreaker Morocco pulled off a 3-2 (25-23, 25-20, 26-28, 17-25, 15-13) over Cameroon in the tournaments longest match (148 min). Morocco scored five consecutive points in the first set to turn the score from 20-23 to win the set 25-23. The Moroccan team became highly motivated to win the second set and lost two match points in the third set before Cameroon improved the score to 2-1. The West Africans continued with high motivations to win the fourth set, but Morocco came on time to win the tiebreak 15-13 and their third match in the competition to improve to 3-0 with 7 points and claim the second position in the standings.

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Standings

1. Egypt 9 (3-0) (9-4)

2. Morocco 9 (3-0) (9-4)

3. Tunisia 5 (2-1) (8-4)

4. Cameroon 3 (1-2) (5-8)

5. Algeria 3 (0-3) (6-9)

6. Libya 0 (0-3) (1-9)

 

Fourth round (26. September)

Egypt – Algeria

Cameroon – Libya

Tunisia – Morocco

 

Fifth round (27. September)

Libya – Algeria

Morocco – Egypt

Cameroon – Tunisia

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