Club Wamco’s Kittika Kaewpin attacks Nepal Police Club
Male, Maldives, September 19, 2024 – On exciting Day 4 of round-robin preliminaries in the 2024 CAVA Women’s Club Volleyball Championship, in-form Nepal Police Club continued their unbeaten streak after edging out hosts Club Wamco in epic tiebreaker in a tightly-contested match which kept the stadium alive, with boisterous Nepali fans, many of them immigrants in the Maldives, passionately cheering for their team.
Club Wamco made a strong start to secure the thrilling first set 25-21. Despite the loss, Nepal Police Club regained their composure in the second set, bouncing back mightily to win 25-20 and level it at 1-1.
The third set was an intense back-and-forth, but Club Wamco’s star spiker, Kuttika Kaewpin of Thailand pushed the determined team to a 25-21 victory. However, Nepal Police Club held their nerves to clinch the fourth set 25-18 and maintained their impressive form to secure a decisive fifth set 15-13 for the eventual comeback 3-2 victory.
Bhandari Usha chipped in 18 points from 14 attacks, one block and 3 aces for Nepal Police Club, while outside hitter Kuttika Kaewpin scored a match-high 30 points on the Club Waco’s loss.
Both teams fared well in the blocking game, getting 4 stuffs apiece, but Nepal Police Club did a very good job of leading their opponents in kills (70 to 52) and aces (13 to 5). However, Club Wamco benefitted from more opponent errors (40 to 20).
Earlier, the day began with a one-sided match between Sri Lanka Air Force and VC Diamed of Tajikistan, which saw the former cruise to an exceptional 3-0 (25-11, 25-12, 25-18) win against the latter.
Kaushalya Godella Waththa was the most productive player of Sri Lanka Air Force to register 12 points, while no player of VC Diamed reached double digits in scoring against the opponents, with Aqnazarova Gurdofarid scoring only 7 points including 4 attacks from 14 attempts for the unfancied Tajik side.
In the second encounter, Humo VC of Uzbekistan dominated Maldives Police Club, taking the match in comfortable straight sets 25-12, 25-15, 25-10.
Olimova Malikabonu delivered 11 points including 9 attacks from 12 attempts for Humor VC on a day when the fast-improving Uzbek side displayed their excellent form. Rashidha Hawwa led Maldives Police Club with 7 points.
After four-day matches, Nepal Police Club flexed their muscles with 11 points from four straight wins to stay atop the six-team standing, while Humo VC of…
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