AZS Częstochowa - AZS Politechnika Warszawska (golden set)

AZS Częstochowa is the champion of the European Challenge Cup in season 2011/12. In the final game defeated another Polish team: AZS Politechnika Warszawska. After a really exciting fight AZS Częstochowa became the first Polish team with European Challenge Cup. MVP of matches was Dawid Murek. This year the Challenge Cup final was played only in Poland. AZS Czstochowa made the first good step during the game in Warszawa, they won 3:1. Częstochowa was leading 2:0 at home, but than Warszawa woke up and won the third set 25:22. It was a really good day of Grzegorz Szymański (Warszawa) and Michał Kamiński (Częstochowa). In the next part, both teams started pretty equal, but than guests worked out with their block, get some advantage and carried it on until tie break. Players of AZS Warszawa were very determined and won tie break 15:11, so the "golden set" was on program. The last episode of this match was truly a thriller. First, it was 6:0 (!) for AZS Politechnika Warszawa, but the hosts began to catching up. When it was 11:7 for Warszawa, their libero, Damian Wojtaszek, got an injury and had to leave the court (replaced by Maciej Krzywiecki). It was the moment when all the trouble of Warszawa has begun. Both teams had their match balls, but the main arbiter also made a wrong decision and took one of the guest's point away (22:55). Finally, after a good block over Grzegorz Szymanski, AZS Częstochowa could enjoy their success by winning golden set 18:16. Radosław Panas (coach of AZS Politechnika) said: "Honestly we played against a very strong team with an impressive squad and I think we couldn’t do anything more. Anyway the second place and the silver medal are a big success for us especially taking into account our weaker results in the Polish League".

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