Men’s National Volleyball Championship: Cameroun Sport Volleyball takes the lead

Saturday’s advanced fixtures in Yaoundé shake up the Men’s National Championship with a new leader emerging at the top

Two delayed matches were played. Two games wildly different in character,

CSV move top — emphatically

Cameroun Sport Volleyball had been sitting joint-first with Port Autonome de Douala on 14 points, separated only by goal difference and the nagging sense that PAD’s unbeaten record gave them the psychological edge. All of that changed on Saturday evening as CSV faced Forces Armées et Police and simply overwhelmed them. Three sets, three wins: (25-20, 27-25, 25-19). The middle set was the tightest, FAP clawing their way to 25-all before CSV found the composure to close it out. The rest was controlled, assured, and at times quite beautiful to watch.

CSV moves to 17 points, three clear of Port Autonome de Douala at the summit. For the first time this season, they stand alone at the top of the men’s table

Dream Sport refuse to go quietly

Earlier, the match between Dream Sport Academy and Shekinah Sport Academy was something far more dramatic.

DSA, sitting sixth on 6 points and badly in need of a win, faced a Shekinah side that had yet to register a victory all season. On paper, it looked straightforward. In practice, it was anything but. Shekinah — with nothing to lose and everything to play for in terms of pride. They pushed DSA all the way through four sets before DSA finally held their nerve in the fifth, edging it 15-13 (The full scoreline — 25-22, 22-25, 24-26, 25-22, 15-13)  is a testament of a match that swung constantly and refused to settle. DSA claimed the two points for a 3-2 win, while Shekinah, to their considerable credit, earned their first point of the campaign.

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