Richmond Volleyball men’s team made a great start to National Volleyball League Division One campaign last weekend and grinded out a 3-2 away win against Leicester VC.

Marco Bolognesi earned MVP for this spiking performance and Anton Kornilov earned much credit for his strong blocking performance.

Richmond went down 2-1 having won the first set convincingly (25-16)

. In the fourth set Richmond raced ahead 6-0 and finished the fourth set strongly (25-18). In the 5th Set Richmond couldn't have looked any more dominant closing the game 15-12.

Final Result: Leicester VC [2] v Richmond Volleyball [3] Set Results: 16-26; 25-19; 25-23; 18-25; 12-15 Richmond's Player of the Match: M.Bolognesi

Team List: A.De Souza, A.Kornilov, D.Cleather, G.Scatigna-Gianfagna (Cpt), M.Bolognesi M.Ghelfi, Y. Zdorovcov, R.Bachor D.Rijvers (Coach)