Handball
Olympiacos cleared Ionikos’ hurdle, a comfortable victory for AEK
Olympiacos edged out Ionikos 36-30 to return to second place, behind AEK who had previously defeated HANTH 39-16.
Olympiacos SFF/Omilos Xinis returned to the 2nd place of the handball premier and defeated Ionikos Affidea in the indoor stadium of Ilioupoli in the final of the 9th game of the championship by 36:30.
For the home team, goalkeeper Kostas Kotanidis had another bad day, playing in the first half where Olympiacos stormed after leading 20-11, while Babis Dombris was also very good (6 goals).
In the second half, the champion played with changes and Ionikos, who was more concentrated than in the first half, was able to reduce from 24:14 (35th) to 26:19 (40th), without threatening the red-whites, however, he easily achieved that Final 36-30.
The five minutes: 4-2, 8-3, 11-6, 14-7, 17-8, 20-11 (em), 24-14, 26-19, 28-20, 30-23, 33-27 , 36-30
OLYMPIAKOS (Karassavidis): Kotanidis, Roussos 1, Niokas 5, Karabourniotis 4, Papavasilis 3, Koutoulogenis, Papadimitriou, Papadopoulos, Dombris 6, Weber 8, Passias 2, Liolios, Slavoulitsa 4, Gratzan 3, Michaelidis, Bauer.
IONIKOS (Arvanitis): Koukoulas 5, S. Aivaliotis 4, Tausanis 1, Papadopoulos, Braudakis, Syngaris, A. Vassiliou 1, P. Aivaliotis, I. Vassiliou 2, Butos, Meletakos 1, Delichristos 2, Troulos 2, Mantzopoulos 4, Elozieua 4, Heliotis 4.
AEK-HANTH 39-16
AEK returned to the top of the handball premier, defeating HANTH 39-16 in Byron’s closed game on Day 9 of the championship.
The Union was superior throughout the game against the bottom of the table and offensively versatile, as almost all players on the field scored.
The five minutes: 5-1, 9-2, 13-3, 15-4, 17-5, 20-7 (h), 21-8, 26-11, 28-13, 33-14, 36-14 , 39-16
AEK (Albanian): Arabatzis 1, Tick 5, Zivkovic 6, Kalivas 3, Madalinic, Kalamatas, Almeida 3, Iliopoulos 3, Kotsionis 4, Papadionisiou 1, Liapis 3, Arsic, Kalomiros 2, Sokolic 1, Vardaxopoulos 6, Nikolaidis 1.
HANTH (Mastorogiannis): Skoufas 4, S. Sarafis 4, Panzios, Andreadakis 1, Ioannidis, S. Sarafis, Daios, Kouklotidis 1, Giannakidis, Billias 1, Karangelos, Agathonikos, Samaras 2, Samaras, Kyriakides 4, Papadopoulos 3, Filosoglou .
Source: sport 24
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