VakıfBank hosted Karayolları in the first match of the Turkish League 2023-2024 season. The yellow-blacks started the season with a 3-0 win.
VakıfBank started the 2023-2024 season in the Turkish League. The yellow-blacks, which hosted Karayolları in the first week match, won the match 3-0.
In the competitive first set of the match, Aleksia Karutasu scored 7 points, and VakıfBank won 26-24. Playing strongly in the last part of the second set, the yellow-blacks brought the score to 2-0 with 25-19. Leading from start to finish in the third set, the last CEV Champions League champion managed to win the set 25-18 and the match 3-0.
VakıfBank's Aleksia Karutasu was the top scorer of the match with 24 points; İdil Naz Başcan and Chiaka Ogbogu scored 8 points, and Bianka Busa had 7 points.
Van Aalen: “It was important to win today”
Saran Van Aalen, one of VakıfBank's new transfers, said in her statement after the match: "I am happy that we won. Since we are at the beginning of the season, we are not yet at the level we want, but we will work on it and get to where we want. It was important to win today and we managed to win 3-0”
In its next match, VakıfBank will host Beşiktaş Ayos, one of the new teams of the league, on Tuesday, October 17, at 15.00.
VAKIFBANK - KARAYOLLARI: 3-0
HALL: VakıfBank Spor Sarayı
REFEREES: Ramazan Çevik, Aylin Turnaoğlu
VAKIFBANK: Sarah Van Aalen 1, İdil Naz Başcan 8, Zeynep Sude Demirel 4, Aleksia Karutasu 24, Aleksandra Frantti 5, Chiaka Ogbogu 8, Aylin Acar (L), Cansu Özbay, Jordan Thompson, Bianka Busa 7, Karmen Aksoy 2
KARAYOLLARI: Dilay Özdemir 8, Ezgi Arslan 8, Berka Buse Özden 8, Mila Collar 2, Eylül Durgun 6, Ema Strunjak 6, Alara Altundağ (L), Selin Navruz (L), Elif Boran 1
SETS: 26-24, 25-19, 25-18
TIME: 25’, 28’, 25’
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