Aich/Dob stays in the hunt

In Men's MEL the three games of the 13th round this weekend were seemingly all won by a big margin.

On Friday the hotVolleys (AUT) lost a tough battle at home against table leading HAOK Mladost (CRO) by 1:3. "Zagreb's attack was better today. We only converted 43 percent of our attacks, while the Croats managed 50 percent. The turning point when we missed out on two set points in the first set. We won the second one, but the team was mentally out of sync', said hotVolleys-manager Peter Kleinmann.

Aich/Dob stays in the hunt
SK Posjilnica Aich/Dob (AUT) celebrated an easy 3:0 (25:17, 25:20, 25:16)-home win against Hungarian champion Diamant Kaposvar in only 64 minutes on Saturday. Topscorer was Aich/Dob#s new addition Canadian national team player Tootje Van Lankvelt with 16 points. "I picked him up from constanta. I didn't expect him to be our topscorer right away, so we'll possibly see more from him', explained Aich/Dob-manager Martin Micheu. He wasn't all that satisfied with the overall performance of his team. "We improved from our European Cup performances. It wasn't enough to challenge Hypo Tirol next week though', he added.

ACH Volley not fazed by bottom team
The winless bottom team MOK Zagreb (CRO) suffered it's twelfth consecutive loss of the season. ACH Volley Bled (SLO) easily handed the Croats a 0:3-loss. The Slovenians have won nine out of eleven games an look set for their next Final Four appearance.

MEL, Men, results:
13th round
Friday:
hotVolleys (AUT) - HAOK Mladost (CRO) 1:3 (24:26, 25:23, 23:25, 22:25)

Saturday:
ACH Volley (SLO) - MOK ZAGREB (CRO) 3:0 (25:17, 25:15, 25:22)
SK Posojilnica AICH/DOB (AUT) - DIAMANT KAPOSVAR (HUN) 3:0 (25:17, 25:20, 25:16)

standings Men's MEL - ANS/RED/MEVZA