BGVC beaten by Ba'YiSteered by superstar spiker Pleumjit Thinkaow, who won the Most Valuable Player award at the last year's edition, hard-attacking Wilavan Apinyapong and also strengthened by American Ashley Frazier and Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa, Bangkok Glass wrapped up the opening set 25-16, but succumbed the next two-set loss to the well-established Chinese side 20-25 21-25.BGVC, known as the Rabbit Women, recovered to take the fourth set 25-20, but their nerves began to fray in the fifth set to go down 8-15. Despite the loss, Bangkok Glass finished second in Pool F to next challenge Vietnam's Lien Viet Post Bank in the knockout quarter-finals on Friday, September 9.Liu Yan Han led the way for Ba’Yi Shenzheng with 28 points, anchored on 25 kills, while Wang Yun Lu added 16 hits and Yang Jun Jing and Wang Yan chipped in 12 markers apiece.Ba'Yi Shenzheng, which remained unbeaten with a 4-0 win-loss record in Pool F, will take on Pool E's No.4 seed Foton Pilipinas of the Philippines in the knockout quarter-finals.Pleumjit finished with 17 points, while Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa and Jutarat Montripila had 16 markers apiece and Wilavan contributed 15 hits for the Thai club.Meanwhile, NEC Red Rockets of Japan outclassed Thongtin Lien Viet Post Bank of Vietnam 3-0 (25-15 25-19 25-13) on Wednesday for a clean sweep of Pool E. The undefeated Japanese side topped the pool and will take on Taiwan's T.Grandm No.4 seed of Pool F in the knockout quarter-finals.Kazakhstan's Altay VC powered past Foton Pilipinas of the Philippines 3-0 (27-25 25-18 25-21) to finish second in Pool E and will face Iran's Sarmayeh Bank, No.3 of Pool F.Iran's Sarmayeh Bank were also in great form to pound Taiwan's T.Grand to submission in straight sets 25-14 25-16 25-12. T. Grand will take on unbeaten Japan, with the Iranian team pitted against Altay VC.In the classification match for the 9th-12th spots, North Korea's 4.25 Sports Club overwhelmed Malaysia 3-0 (25-9 25-14 25-10) to next face Jakarta Elektrik of Indonesia for the battle for the ninth position on Saturday, September 10.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 08, 2016 02:15 UTC