16/04/2012 11:00
Rabita BAKU caps memorable season with fifth national league crown
News from the clubs
Baku, Azerbaijan, April 16, 2012. Rabita BAKU was crowned this past Sunday Azerbaijan’s national champion for the fifth consecutive season. With this result the players mentored by Zoran Gajic capped a memorable season that had started in early October as Rabita finished atop of the standings at the FIVB Club World Champs in Doha, Qatar, and continued in late December with another first place at the “Top Volley International” tournament in Basel, Switzerland.
The Playoffs were played with a double round robin joined by the top five teams coming out of the regular season and in the end Rabita topped the charts with the podium completed by the winners and runner-ups of the 2012 CEV Volleyball Challenge Cup, i.e. Lokomotiv and Baki BAKU.
Starting from the stats of the Playoffs individual awards were distributed as follows:
MVP: Natalya Mammadova (AZE/Rabita BAKU)
Best Scorer: Nancy Jean Metcalf (USA/Lokomotiv BAKU)
Best Setter: Iryna Zhukova (UKR/Rabita BAKU)
Best Blocker: Mira Golubovic (SRB/Rabita BAKU)
Best Spiker: Mira Golubovic (SRB/Rabita BAKU)
Best Server: Polina Rahimova (AZE/Azerrail BAKU)
Best Receiver: Mariya Filipova (BUL/Lokomotiv BAKU)
Best Digger: Janneke van Tienen (NED/Baki BAKU)
Best Libero: Mariya Filipova (BUL/Lokomotiv BAKU)
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