Serbia push further away from relegation with shutout of Belgium

With star opposite Tijana Boskovic on fire, Serbia beat Belgium in straight sets on Friday in Apeldoorn, Netherlands to score their second win of the women’s Volleyball Nations League season and push further away from the relegation zone. The reigning world champions are now up to 15^th place in the current VNL standings on a 2-9 win-loss record and 11 points, just below Belgium, who stand 14^th on 3-8 and 8.

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In just three sets, Boskovic hammered out an impressive 26 points towards Serbia’s 3-0 (26-24, 25-19, 25-16) shutout of Belgium. She put away three kill blocks and an ace and spiked at a 61% success rate to top the scorers chart of the match. 20-year-old outside hitters Vanja Ivanovic and Aleksandra Uzelac added 12 and 11 points, respectively, for the southern Europeans, while 11 is the number of points scored for the western Europeans by their most prolific player, 17-year-old Liese Verhelst.

“This is a big victory for us. I am so happy and so proud of the team. We finally could find our game and put it on a higher level. That’s it! We will continue pushing,” Serbia’s setter Sladana Mirkovic told VBTV.

The next VNL game of the day, also in Apeldoorn, will set Czechia against Turkiye at 20:30 local time (18:30 UTC).

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