National players Petya Barakova and Monika Krasteva, former player Slavina Koleva and their KSM Targovishte tied the series for the bronze medals in the Romanian Division A1. The team led by Branko Gajic won very hard as a guest over Rapid (Bucharest), with Nasya Dimitrova in the lineup, with 3:2 (25:22, 13:25, 12:25, 25:15, 15:13) in the second match of the series between them played this afternoon.
Nasya Dimitrova and Rapid took the lead for bronze in Romania
Thus, after losing 1:3 game in the first match yesterday, Targovishte equalized the result in the series with 1-1 victories. Play until 3 wins from 5 games. The next two meetings will be next week in Targovishte.
Monika Krasteva played a decent game for Targovishte and became second in scoring with 14 points (5 blocks! and 20% efficiency in attack – +3). Most useful again was Ariana-Christiana Pirv with 21 points (1 block, 38% efficiency in attack and 48% positive reception – +16) for the victory. Petya Barakova scored 4 points (1 block), while Slavina Koleva entered as a reserve and realized 7 points (41% efficiency in attack and 44% positive reception – +3) for the success.
For the hosts from Rapid, Nasya Dimitrova scored 6 points (3 blocks and 25% efficiency in attack – +5). Ioana Bachu topped everyone with 25 points (2 blocks and 40% offensive efficiency – +18), and Nika Markovic finished with 19 points (1 block, 2 aces, 47% offensive efficiency and 32% positive reception – +13) , but that didn’t help the victory either.
