La Cucine Lube Civitanova Sweeps Italian Serie A1 Title

  0 Wendy Mayer | May 08th, 2017 | Italian League, Pro Indoor

Italian Serie A1 Finals

·         May 7, 2017

·         Civitanova, Italy

·         La Cucine Lube Civitanova def. Diatec Trentino 28-26, 25-20, 18-25, 25-14

·         Lube wins the Serie A1 title

·         Box Score

La Cucine Lube Civitanova are the Italian Serie A champions after defeating Diatec Trentino 3-1 on Sunday. Lube won the match 28-26, 25-20, 18-25, 25-14 to take the championship series 3-0.

Lube hit at a .554 clip in the match and put up 14 blocks. Tsvetan Sokolov managed 23 points to lead Lube, including 18 kills. Osmany Juantorena added 20 points, including 15 kills, while match MVP Jiri Kovar added 15. Amercian Micah Christenson added three points, including a block.

For Diatec, Filippo Lanza led the way with 20 points.

Lube won the first two matches in the final series, 3-0 in Civitanova and 3-2  in Trentino.

Italian Serie A1 Finals

April 26 – Lube def. Diatec Trentino 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-17)

May 4  – Lube def. Diatec Trentino 3-2 (33-31, 22-25, 26-24, 28-30, 15-7)

May 7 – Lube def. Diatec Trentino 3-1 (28-26, 25-20, 18-25, 25-14)

 

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Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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