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Joel Ajayi <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abuja Nigeria, April 9, 2025 \u2013 Championship record holders Al Ahly dismissed Kenya Prisons to set a date in the semifinals of the 2025 Women\u2019s African Volleyball Club Championship after a 3-1 (25-12, 25-20, 22-25, 27-25) AHL started off with a bang and were winning 8-3, before PRI started engaging. A few spikes and volleying the ball to gaps at the back of the court won PRI points, however AHL were comfortably in control and won the set 25-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tatjana Bokan had a good run of attacks to help put AHL 8-3 up again in the 2nd set. Errors from AHL allowed PRI to close the gap their but Ahly\u2019s powerful hits made it difficult for PRI to come back. A run of three points, a hitting errors from AHL and a late ace brought PRI back into the set, but the AHL lead was too much and, in the end, PRI succumbed 20-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PRI initially started well, although AHL soon overtook and dominated most of the set, Then PRI made a passionate fight back and managed to close the gap with a number of spikes and serves and level it 12-12. PRI took the lead 16-15 for the first time and were leading again 21-19 when AHL called for a timeout, the Kenyans put sweat to secure a win 25-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a fight for the 4th set with both teams fully engaged. A must win set for PRI. The team followed with a couple of key blocks and then PRI hitting errors set AHL up 27-25 to win the match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Ahly secured themselves a well-deserved match win and a place in the last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joel Ajayi Abuja Nigeria, April 9, 2025 \u2013 Championship record holders Al Ahly dismissed Kenya Prisons to set a date in the semifinals of the 2025 Women\u2019s African Volleyball Club Championship after a 3-1 (25-12, 25-20, 22-25, 27-25) AHL started off with a bang and were winning 8-3, before PRI started engaging. A few spikes and volleying the ball to gaps at the back of the court won PRI points, however AHL were comfortably in control and won the set 25-12. Tatjana Bokan had a good run of attacks to help put AHL 8-3 up again in the 2nd set. Errors from AHL allowed PRI to close the gap their but Ahly\u2019s powerful hits made it difficult for PRI to come back. A run of three points, a hitting errors from AHL and a late ace brought PRI back into the set, but the AHL lead was too much and, in the end, PRI succumbed 20-25. PRI initially started well, although AHL soon overtook and dominated most of the set, Then PRI made a passionate fight back and managed to close the gap with a number of spikes and serves and level it 12-12. PRI took the lead 16-15 for the first time and were leading again 21-19 when AHL called for a timeout, the Kenyans put sweat to secure a win 25-22. It was a fight for the 4th set with both teams fully engaged. A must win set for PRI. The team followed with a couple of key blocks and then PRI hitting errors set AHL up 27-25 to win the match. Al Ahly secured themselves a well-deserved match win and a place in the last four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-and-international-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23796,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions\/23796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}