Handball Premier: AEK defeated Pylaia, PAOK easily defeated Drama

AEK celebrated their second win in handball debut by beating AESH Pylaia’s Mikra 18-22.

The defense and the goalkeepers had the first word in a game that remained very poor in goals and kept the home team in the game until the end. Typically, only 15 goals were scored in the first half (7-8), with Pylaia’s Babatzanidis doing an excellent job at home and the AEK defense blocking the home team’s players.

In the second half, AEK scored valuable goals from Themis Iliopoulos and led 13-18 at 50′. Pylaia tried to threaten and was reduced to 15-18 at 55′, but the visitors easily advanced to the final 18-22.

• The five minutes: 2-1, 4-2, 4-2, 5-4, 6-8, 7-8 (mch), 7-10, 11-15, 13-18, 15-18, 18-22
• Goal (Ananiadis): Babatzanidis, Zafeiris, Manoloudis 1, Metsis 2, Tsamesidis 1, Karagiozopoulos 4, Lastsakou 3, Giannakidis, Koukmisis 3, Orfanoudakis 1, Batzios 2, Alexandridis 1, Kyriakidis, Kyriakou, Gioranidis 1, Alatsatianos
• AEK (Albanian): Matskevich, Arabatzis 3, Tick 2, Zifkovic 3, Jukic, Moya, Nikolaidis, Papadionisiou 1, Lemos 4, Iliopoulos 6, Arsic, Sokolic, Tsitobi, Almeida, Liapis, Kederis 3

PAOK-Drama 32-20

PAOK started with absolute (2/2) wins, which confidently prevailed after an excellent performance with 32-20 drama in the “Home of Handball”.

With polyphony in attack and strong defence, the “two-headed” from the north took the lead from the start (7:2 in the 15th minute and 9:3 in the 20th minute) and were never threatened by the Draminos.

• The five minutes: 2-1, 3-2, 7-2, 9-3, 12-6, 15-9 (am), 18-9, 21-11, 24-15, 27-17, 30-18, 32 – 20
• PAOK (Gousios): Gigof, Nikolaidis 3, Giavasidis, D. Triantafyllidis 5, Kavousanakis 2, Velissariou, Dougias, Tzorginis 3, Papazoglou 3, Tsamouridis 1, Ladakis 6, Eleftheriadis 2, Tsanaxidis 3, T. Triphyllantidis 4, Moisilov, Marinos
• THEATRE (Valavanis): Vassiliou, Papazoglou, Barbas, Moraitis 1, Haitidis 3, Kovoglanidis, Kotsamarikoglou, Polydoros, Tornikidis 1, Toskas 6, Tungelidis, Kalaitzidis, Papageorgiou 5, Zibulovics 2, Papadopoulos 2, Sina

Diomedes Argos – CHANTH 35-22

Diomedis Argos played 2X2 in Handball Premier and defeated HANTH 35:22 in his first home game.

The game was tied for just 25 minutes, with a 13-13 draw at that point. Over the next 15 minutes, the home side put on an amazing 10-1 run to make it 23-14 and turn the game in their favour. Tsigaridas led the Argos team with eight goals, while Apostolis Palaskas scored the same number of goals from HANTH.

• The five minutes: 4-2, 8-5, 8-9, 10-11, 13-13, 17-13 (m), 20-13, 23-14, 27-16, 31-19, 34-19, 35- 22
• Diomedes (Zaravinas): Kostoulas 1, Tsakalos 1, Tzibulas 4, Tsigaridas 8, G. Mugic 4, Mallios, Terletski 1, Koutroubis, Asvestas 4, Hatzikonstantinou, Kaimakamis 1, Betzilali 2, Manthos, Angelic, Zifkovic 3, Tz. Mugich 6
• HANTH (Mastorogiannis): Daios, Samaras, Andreadakis, Kouklotidis 1, Kyriakides 1, Palaskas 8, S. Sarafis 3, Skoufas 3, Karangelos, Panzios 2, Papadopoulos, Vardakas 3, Filosoglou, Giannakidis, S. Sarafis 1, Agathonikos

Aeropos Zafiirakis 23-21

Aeropos Edessa Man Dynamic received the first pink card for this year’s handball premier after beating Zafirakis Naoussa 23:21.

After a very competitive first half, in which both teams were able to keep up, Aeropos converted from 8:8 to 13:8 (37th) with a 5:0 series and reached a little later (41st) +6 ( 16-10) .

Zafirakis responded and got back in the game with a 4-0 run, reducing to 16-14 (46th), but the home team’s 4-1 individual result restored the difference to 5 goals (20-15) at 51.

The Naoussa side came close again at 55′ (20-18), but Aeropos hit another 3-0 run to 23-18 (58′) to seal the win.

International left winger Pantelis Kostakidis was the hosts’ top scorer with 7 goals.

• The five minutes: 3-2, 3-4, 4-5, 7-7, 8-7, 9-8 (image), 12-8, 15-10, 16-13, 19-15, 20-18, 23 – 21
• AIRPLANE (Pilalides): Veremtsouk, Georgalis, Kostakidis 7, Tselios, Boutkaris, Papagiannis 1, Bulkin 2, Mavrodoulakis 2, Botskaref 5, Mumtzidelis, Krallis 2, Athanasiadis, Koukoutsidis 3, Gatsis, Migas 1, Totidis
• ZAFIRAKIS (Deligiannis): Athanasiou, Bolas 2, Kanizai 2, Tzouvaras, Tsageras 1, Theodoropoulos 3, Bouboulendras, Rotzios, Misailidis 5, Biliouris, Apostolidis 3, Rizos, Milovics, Vafeidis 2, Tsatsas, Lolas 3

ESN Vrilision – Ionikos 29-28

Matsara in Vrilissia with the local team, which combines the first home game in the handball premier after 11 years with an epic upset and a victory over Ionian NF with 29-28.

Although the guests controlled the game in the last quarter thanks to the good interventions of Braudakis and the goals of Mantzopoulos to 25:28 at 57:50, they were eclipsed in the last two minutes and the spirited Vrilissia won with a series of 4-0 !

Thanos Toutsis’ team, with a superb Antoniadis under the post and Cherubim scoring three carbon goals from the boundary, split 28-28 at 59:48!

Ionikos had the final attack of the game which not only failed to bring an advantage but proved disastrous as Aivaliotis deliberately threw the ball away for delay after the offensive foul and the referees awarded a regulation penalty which he saw leader Giorgos Perros score 29-28 Executed at the dead time amid furious celebrations.

Cherubim with 10 goals and Khursundian with 7 goals led the hosts in attack, while for Ionian Delichristos was the top scorer with 5 goals.

This was the Vrilisians’ first win in the championship, which they almost achieved in the premiere against Drama, while Ionikos remain in the last places without a point.

• The five minutes: 4-4, 5-5, 7-5, 9-9, 12-13, 14-15 (mch), 18-18, 20-21, 21-22, 22-22, 23-25, 29- 28
• VRILISSIA (Toutsis): Karadimas, Tsikogiannopoulos, Perros 2, Vlachos, Tombros 1, Pantazis, Antoniadis 1, Karamasiotis 1, Anastasiou, Zarikos 1, Cherubim 10, Vamvakas 1, M. Stathis 1, Khoursoudian 7, P. Stathis 2, Chalaris 2
• IONIC (Arvanitis): Kiartzidis, Koukoulas 4, Aivaliotis 4, Tausanis, Papadopoulos, Braudakis, Syngaris, Handelis 3, Boutos 4, Meletakos, Delichristos 5, Tokatzoglou 1, Mantzopoulos 4, Elozieua 1, Heliotis, Balaskas 2

The results of the 2nd round

• ENS Vrilision – Ionian NF 29-28
• Diomedes-Khanth 35-22
• Pylaia-AEK 18-22
• PAOK drama 1986 32-20
• Aeropos-Zafirakis 23-21
• 26/09 21:30 ASE Doukas – Olympiacos

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The program of the 3rd game

• Ionic NF – PAOK
• Drama 1986 – ASE Duka
• Olympiacos – Pylaia
• AEK – Aeropos
• Zafirakis-Diomedes
• HANTH-ENS Virlission