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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Jack’s Dynavit stays hot in Turkish women's vball

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Nigel Simon
81 days ago
20250117
T&T’s Sinead Jack

T&T’s Sinead Jack

#Mikhalko_Stanislav

For­mer na­tion­al women’s vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack had two straight match­es in dou­ble-dig­it scor­ing to help Eczacibasi Dy­nav­it keep up their quest for top spot in the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League.

On Sun­day, mid­dle-block­er Jack was one of five play­ers to score in dou­ble-fig­ures as Eczacibasi Dy­nav­it eased past Ze­ro Dis­pute in four sets.

Play­ing away at the IBB Ce­be­ci Sports Com­plex, Dy­nav­it won for the 13th time in 15 match­es, 25-18, 23-25, 25-10, 25-19 led by cap­tain Ti­jana Boskovic's 21 points while Dana Lynn Ret­tke got 12, Jack and Yaprak Erkek 11 each and Kathryn Bo­den, ten in the 98 min­utes match-up.

For Ze­ro Dis­pute, Alek­san­dra Uzelac tal­lied a match-high 22 points with Bran­ki­ca Mi­ha­jlovic the oth­er play­er in dou­ble-fig­ures with 13 points while Kubra Ak­man got sev­en and Sey­ma Er­ca Ku­cukaslan, six.

Then on Wednes­day, with the trio of Boskovic, Hande Bal­adin and Beyza Ari­ci all rest­ed, Alexa Gray led Dy­nav­it with 17 points while Ret­tke tal­lied 14, and the pair of Jack and Nico­let­ti ten each in their 25-13, 25-12, 25-18 de­feat of Sariy­er.

With the back-to-back wins, Jack, and Dy­nav­it stayed sec­ond on the 14-club stand­ings with 42 points and a 14-2 win-loss record, the same record as lead­ers Fener­bache Med­icana (14-2), who have 44 points, while third-placed Vak­if­bank al­so has a sim­i­lar 14-2 record and 40 points fol­lowed by Turk Ha­va Yol­lari with a 12-4 mark and 35 points while Galatasaray sits fifth with an 11-5 record and 36 points.

Last week, Jack was one of three key play­ers rest­ed as Dy­nav­it's made it five straight wins in Group B of the Eu­ro­pean Women’s Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­ons League when they came from be­hind to beat Tent Obren­o­vac of Ser­bia 21-25, 25-10, 25-16, 25-22.

With the win, Dy­nav­it im­proved to a per­fect 5-0 record and a max­i­mum of 15 points, sev­en clear of Tent Obren­o­vac who dropped to a 3-2 record with eighth points while Ger­many’s Schw­er­iner is next at 2-3 with five points af­ter a 23-25, 25-12, 25-21, 21-25, 15-12 de­feat of win­less Paris St Cloud of France.

With on­ly one round of match­es in pool play to come, Dy­nav­it who faces Paris on Jan­u­ary 22 in their fi­nal match is cer­tain to fin­ish as Group B win­ners to earn an au­to­mat­ic spot in the quar­ter­fi­nals with the four oth­er pool win­ners while the five sec­ond placed teams and the best third placed team will qual­i­fy to the round-of-16 play-offs.

The re­main­ing third-placed teams will com­pete in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the CEV Cup, the sec­ond tier of the Eu­ro­pean com­pe­ti­tion.

For Dy­nav­it, Kathryn Plum­mer reg­is­tered a match-high 19 points while cap­tain Ti­jana Boskovic, play­ing be­fore her home crowd tal­lied 15, Jo­vana Ste­vanoic 12 and Dana Ret­tke, 11 with Yaprak Erkek adding nine in the 96 min­utes en­counter.

On the oth­er side of the net, Ma­li­na Ter­rell and Mi­na Mi­ja­tovic both scored 14 points each for Tent Obren­o­vac while Natasa Cikuc got 11, and the duo of Neve­na Sajic and Djur­d­ja Stano­je­vic eight points apiece in the loss.


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