Dimitar Dulchev and Svetoslav Stankov were eliminated in the semifinals of the National Championship Divizia A1 in Romania. Their SCM University of Craiova lost the second match against Corona Brașov with 1:3 (31:29, 20:25, 16:25, 24:26). If Danuț Pascu's boys had won at home, they would have sent the series to a decisive third match. Before the match, the Transylvanians led 1-0 in the overall score, with this phase of the competition played in a best-of-three series.

Laurențiu Lică's team, the current champion of Romania, won all matches played against the Oltenians (3-0, 3-0 - regular season; 3-1 in the semifinals of the Romanian Cup and 3-1 in the first match in Brașov, played last week).
Dimitar Dulchev entered briefly in the second set, finishing with 1 point from attack and executing 2 serves. Stankov was not even on the team's starting roster. Bojan Strugar finished with the most points for the winners - 21. Andrei Melnikov of the hosts also had that many.