Omichka OMSK
Igtisadchi – that had claimed the first round with the score of 3:1 – started out strong but OMSK could draw level at 7 in the opening set. Omichka gradually got to the front (11:9) and widened the gap already by the second technical time-out (16:9). Omichka players used their height to regularly stop the Thai players included in the roster of Igtisadchi and easily controlled the game up to the end of 25-16.
Even though Igtisadchi included Nadezhda Sak – who last year had played in Omsk – in the starting six for the second set, Omichka still set the pace of the game (8:6) and with the help of Olga Sazhina and Nelli Alisheva moved up 11:7. Igtisadchi took a time-out and could briefly fight back before Omichka accelerated once more the tempo to finish it off with the score of 25-18.
Igtisadchi was able to keep the score close in the early phases of the third set and claimed the lead after the second technical time-out (15:19), keeping it firmly up to the end (21-25).
Omichka OMSK REGION and Igtisadchi initially played point for point in the fourth set but the hosts could finally impose their rule and wrap it up at 25-13 to call for the golden set.
Omichka stretched that momentum there as well (6:2, 8:4) and never slowed down to eventually seal the game with the score of 15-8 to make it to the 1/4 finals of the CEV Cup.
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