Volley. Women’s elite: Quimper wants to win the beautiful in Calais – Volleyball
female elite. Stella Calais sports – Quimper Volley 29, Saturday (7 p.m.)
Quimper, third in the play-downs, faces Calais, sixth, this Saturday evening in a match that will only be at stake for the Northerners. Quimper and Calais have faced each other twice in Brittany this season, and if the Cornish team won the league (3-0), they then lost in the cup (1-3). Enough to spice up this “beautiful”, even if the result will only matter for Calais, chasing behind Clamart, fifth and first non-relegation, who is ahead of the Northerners by three points in the standings.
Quimper as arbiter of the fight for maintenance
Most of the poorly ranked teams fought back on the last day of the championship: Clamart (fifth) clearly dominated Bordeaux (second), Calais (sixth) won at Saint Laurent du Var (fourth), while Monaco ( seventh) secured the blow against the IFVB (tenth). Only Vitrolles (eighth) lost to Quimper (3-0). While three games remain to be contested before the end of the season, delivering a total of nine points, the Provençal club, which is seven behind Clamart, seems doomed.
Between Monaco, Calais and Clamart, two other clubs will join the cart. And the penultimate day scheduled for this evening could do further damage between a trip from Clamart to Sens (first), from Monaco to Nîmes (ninth), while Calais will receive Quimper.
“After playing and beating Vitrolles, we are in Calais this Saturday to meet Stella, another team affected by relegation. But even if we have nothing more to win or lose in this championship, we will take our role as referees seriously until the end. And then in case of victory, we can overtake Bordeaux and perhaps Sens in the standings. So, if we can rank first in the play-downs, we will not deprive ourselves of it, ”announces Cornish coach François Xavier Garnon.