Handball Premier: PAOK overtook Edessa, a big double for Vrilissia

PAOK got what they wanted in Edessa’s indoor game, beating Aeropos 26-29 as part of the 9th round^she of the handball premier.

The game was expectedly strong with Aeropos close until the 50th minute and PAOK taking the lead safely in the last ten minutes as they had better options combined with their effective defense.

Giorgos Eleftheriadis was PAOK’s star player with ten goals, while Koukoutsidis and Krallis scored six for the hosts.

Vrilissia made the “bang” on the 9th.^the The handball premier’s match day defeated Diomedes 28:29 in Argos and made up valuable ground in the table.

The game was a derby, with changes in the lead. At 57:40, Vrilissia took the lead with 27:29 after a “fireball” from Spyros Cherubeim, at 59:00 Tsigaridas shortened the lead to 28:29 and a misguided attack by the guests followed. Mugic had a chance to equalize at 59:30 when Antoniadis saved, and in the final seconds Vrilissia’s players waited and celebrated their big win with the final horn.

Khoursoudian provided valuable solutions for the winners with seven goals, while Haris Mallios scored the same number of goals from Diomedes.

Drama defeated Pylaia HQ, winning 26-34 for the 9^the Matchday of the handball premier and in combination with the defeat of Diomedis against Vrilissia, she alone rose to fourth place in the table.

Sakis Valavani’s side took control midway through the first half, with Lefteris Papazoglou having an excellent day in goal, forcing the home side into an ‘exfoliate’ for ten minutes, turning the 7-8 into a 7-12 in the 10th minute 20 minutes. Then Drama gradually increased the gap, leading Tosca and Papadopoulos in attack and managing to take the win comfortably.

It’s difficult for Pylaia as that misstep, like the one in Mikra with Aeropos, put her at the bottom of the table.

Zafirakis Naousas defended his home stadium and scored his second consecutive victory in the championship on the 9th match day of the handball premier, this time against Doukas with 33:30.

The two teams kept pace throughout the first half with the score being 15-14 in favor of the home side.

In the replay, Doukas led 21-22 in the 42nd minute, but Zafirakis with a 9-4 split took a four-goal lead of 30-26 in the 54th minute.

Zafiirakis kept the difference despite the visitors’ efforts to narrow it, leading to a crucial 33:30 win.
Leading the winners was Theodoropoulos with 10 goals, followed by Milovic with 7, while Stefanitsis scored 9 goals from Doukas.

The game statistics

Aeropos-PAOK 26-29

The five minutes: 2:2, 3:4, 4:7, 10:11, 11:13, 14:14 (m), 16:15, 17:18, 20:23, 23:25, 24:28, 26:29 .

Aeropus (Tutsis): Kostakidis 4, Tselios, Mavrodoulakis 1, Migas 2, Krallis 6, Athanasiadis, Veremtsuk 1, Koukoutsidis 6, Bokaref 3, Mylonas, Mylonas, Bulkin 3, Papagiannis, Georgalis, Giannoussis, Boutkaris, Totidis.

PAOK (Gousios): Gigof, Dougias 1, Eleftheriadis 10, Tsamouridis 1, Nikolaidis 6, Papazoglou 1, T. Triantafyllidis 1, Moisilov, Tsanaxidis, Koukmisis 2, Kavousanakis, D. Triantafyllidis 3, Ladakis 3, Tzorginis 1, Giavasidis, Velisariou.
Referee: Mertinian – Tolios. Two minutes: 2-5. Red: Ladakis (58:23 – dangerous game, no ticket was taken). Penalty: 1/1 – 3/3

Diomedis – Vrilissia 28-29

The five minutes: 3:0, 3:4, 6:7, 9:11, 14:13, 15:15 (f), 17:16, 19:20, 23:22, 25:24, 25:26, 28:29 .

Diomedes (Zaravinas): Kostoulas, Tsakalos 1, Tsiboulas 4, Tsigaridas 6, G. Mugic, Mallios 7, Terletski, Koutroubis, Hadjikonstantinou, Kaimakamis, Betzilali, Manthos 2, Bekiaris, Angelic, Zifkovic 5, Tz. Mugik 3.

ESN of Vrilissi (Toutsis): Karadimas, Tsikogiannopoulos, Vlachos 3, Tombros, Pantazis 2, Antoniadis, Karamasiotis, Anastasiou, Zarikos 3, Cheroubeim 4, Vamvakas 1, M. Stathis 3, Khoursoudian 7, P. Stathis 5, Chalaris 1, Tsamouris.

Referee: Slaveitis – Charalambidis. Two minutes: 6-3. Red: Betzilali (36:52 – dangerous game, no card booked).

Penalty: 3/3 – 2/5

AESH Pylias – Drama ’86 26-34

The five minutes: 4-4, 7-8, 7-10, 7-12, 9-15, 11-18 (m), 13-21, 15-22, 18-24, 20-26, 23-28, 26-34 .

ASH Pylaia (Ananiadis): Babatzanidis, Zafeiris 4, Manoloudis 1, Metsis, Tsamesidis 3, Lastsakou 2, Giannakidis, Koukmisis 2, Tsortekis, Batzios 1, Alexandridis 6, Kyriakidis, Sigiridis 2, Gioranidis 1, Stojanovics 1, Seirekidis 3.

Drama ’86 (Valavanis): Vassiliou, Papazoglou 1, Barbas, Moraitis 3, Haitidis 7, Kovoglanidis, Polydoros 1, Tornikidis, Toskas 7, Kalaitzidis, Dakaris, Papageorgiou 3, Ziboulovits 5, Papadopoulos 7, Kraniotis, Sina.

Referee: Bettman-Tzaferopoulos. Two minutes: 6-5. Penalty: 2/3 – 2/3

ZAFIRAKIS NAOUSAS – ASE DOUKA 33-30

The five minutes: 1-1, 3-3, 7-6, 10-9, 12-12, 15-14 (Em.), 19-18, 20-20, 22-22, 26-24, 30-27, 33- 30

ZAFAIRAKIS (Deligiannis): Athanasiou 1, Bolas 3, Kanizai, Tzouvaras, Tsageras, Theodoropoulos 10, Bouboupentras, Rotzios, Michaelidis 2, Biliouris, Apostolidis 1, Galitis, Milovics 7, Tsatsas 4, Lolas 5, Tsoukalas.

DOUKAS (Chalkidis): Payatis 4, Khatsaturian, Batis, Tsakouridis 6, Panagiotou 4, Nikolinais, Geroulanos, Anastasiou 3, Dounis, Charitonidis, Gasevics 1, Kollyris, Panou 3, Diakoulias, Stefanitsis 9, Borontai.

Two minutes 4-4, penalty shootout: 8/8, 3/4.