Olympiacos SFP/Omilos Xyni also achieved an exciting victory that keeps them at the top of the handball premiere 23-22 against the militants and temperamental Aeropo of Edessa who went down with 13 men (and lost two players with red during the game), but that didn’t stop him from putting on an excellent game and coming close to the upset of the season.

Bauer turned out to be the hero of the game for the “Red-Whites”, who were acutely threatened by home advantage and saved Kostakidis’ penalty in dead time and gave the home side the victory.

OLYMPIC SOCCER/XYNI GROUP – AEROPOS EDESSA MANDYNAMIC 23-22

• The five minutes: 1-3, 4-3, 7-7, 9-10, 9-14, 11-16 (mch), 15-17, 17-17, 19-18, 20-20, 21-21, 23- 22
• OLYMPIC (Grammarists): Kotanidis, Niokas 5, Karabourniotis 2, Papavasilis 2, Kandylas 1, Papadopoulos 3, Dombris 1, Bourges 1, Weber 4, Passias 1, Montoro 1, Slavoulitsa, Ostroutsko, Gratzan, Michaelidis 2, Bauer
• PLANE (Toutsis): Kostakidis 5, Tselios 1, Yovanovitch, Mingas 3, Krallis 2, Semenseko, Veremtsuk, Koukoutsidis 4, Bokaref 2, Giannoussis, Bulkin 2, Georgalis, Papagiannis 3
• referee: Karydakis-Giakalis, Red: 42:33 Semenseko (dangerous game), 45:30 Bulkin (three two minutes), 55:20 Kandylas (three two minutes), Two minutes: 3-4, penalty: 4/6-1/3

PAOK is unstoppable

PAOK celebrated their fifth consecutive win, which prevailed HANTH away from home with 37-24.

Given the difference in capacity between the two teams, it became an open game in which PAOK showed their superiority from the start and gradually widened the difference to achieve ultimate victory.

Koukmisis, D. Triantafyllidis and Tsamouridis carried the winner’s offensive load with 8.7 and 6 goals, respectively, while Apostolis Palaskas scored 5 goals for HANTH.

HANTH-PAOK 24-37

• The five minutes: 2-5, 2-8, 3-13, 6-15, 8-17, 11-20 (mch), 13-23, 16-25, 19-27, 21-28, 22-33, 24- 37
• HANTH (Papavasilis): Palaskas 5, Skoufas 2, Sarigiannidis 1, Panzios 1, Andreadakis 4, Ioannidis, Sarafis, Daios, Vardakas 2, Kouklotidis 1, Giannakidis 2, Billias 2, Karangelos, Agathonikos 1, Samaras, Kyriakidis 3
• PAOK (Gousios): Gigof, Dougias 1, Eleftheriadis, Tsamouridis 6, Nikolaidis, Papazoglou 4, Velissariou, Tzorginis, Apostolou 4, Moisilov, Tsanaxidis, Koukmisis 8, Kavousanakis 4, D. Triantafyllidis 7, Giavasidis, T. Triantafyllidis 3
• referee: Theodosiou – Papoulias. Two minutes: 5-3. Penalty: 3/3 – 3/5

With goalkeeper Ionikos as hero

With a great performance by goalkeeper Dimitris Braudakis, o Ionian affidea scored a big win with 30-19 on her Monte Bianco drama.

With an excellent defensive function, the home team has taken a big step towards relegation and now holds luck in their own hands as they have several games in their hands that can score until the end of the league.

On the other hand, the Drama team were unrecognizable and incomparable to the team that defeated Doukas away from home last week as they had very little attack.

With this win, Ionikos climbed from 11th to 8th place in the table with 10 points.

IONIC AFFIDEA- BIANCO MONTE DRAMA 30-19

• The five minutes: 1-2, 3-4, 6-5, 8-8, 11-11, 14-12 (m), 16-13, 18-14, 21-17, 24-19, 27-19, 30- 19
• IONIC (Arvanitis): Koukoulas 4, Aivaliotis 5, Tausanis 4, Argyrakis, Papadopoulos, Braudakis, Syngaris, Vassiliou A 2, Vassiliou I 4, Butos, Handelis 3, Delichristos 2, Troulos 1, Elozieua 4, Heliotis, Balaskas 1
• THEATRE (Valavanis): Moraitis 1, Messinis 1, Haitidis 3, Kotsamarikoglou, Polydoros, Toskas 3, Papazoglou, Kalaitzidis, Dakaris, Demertzidis, Barbas, Papageorgiou 1, Zibulovics 5, Papadopoulos 2, Kraniotis, Sina 3
• referee: Nascos-Haritsos, Red: 44:01 Papadopoulos (three two minutes), Two minutes: 4-7, penalty: 0/1-1/1

Back to the hits for the Duke

Back on the road to success for him ASED who managed to pass Mikra by defeating her Goal with 31-29.

With aggressive pluralism, Doukas limited the hosts and got the two points. The first half was balanced. Giorgos Chalkidis’ players led 0:3, but Pylaia equalized 8:8 and the halftime ended 14:14.

In the second half, the guests took the lead with a partial score of 1:6 in the 48th minute with 5 goals (20:25), but Pylaia was able to breathe again with 24:25. Panagiotou, Gasevics and Stefanitsis intervened and the “Blues” led to victory (29-31).

AESH PYLIAS – ASE DUKA 29-31

• The five minutes: 0-3, 3-6, 5-7, 8-10, 10-11, 14-14 (Em.), 16-16, 18-19, 20-22, 21-25, 25-27, 29 -31
• Goal (Ananiadis): Zafeiris 2, Manoloudis 3, Metsis, Karagiozopoulos 8, Giannakidis, Koukmisis 4, Orfanoudakis, Batzios 2, Alexandridis 7, Kyriakidis, Sigiridis, Athanasiadis, Poranidis, Alachatianos, Stoyanovits, Seirekidis 3
• Bless you, Duke (Giorgos Chalkidis): Borodai, Markatatos, Tziras 4, Payatis 3, Tsakouridis 3, Panagiotou 4, Geroulanos 5, Anastasiou, Dounis, Yantsa 3, Charitonidis, Kolezakis, Kovanis 1, Gasevits 4, Kollyris, Stefanitsis 4
• referee: Kinatzidis – Fotakidis. Two minutes: 6-5 penalty: 3/4-0/2.

The results of the 15th game

• Olympiacos – Aeropos 23-22
• Pylaia – ASE Duka 29-31
• Ionian of New Philadelphia – Drama 1986 30-19
• HANTH PAOK 24-37
• 08/02 AEK – Diomedes
• 08/02 Zafiirakis – ESN Virlission

The program of the 16th match day

• 28/01 15:00 ENS Virlission – AEK
• 28/01 18:00 Drama 1986 – CHANTH
• 28/01 18:00 Aeropos-Pylaia
• 28/01 18:00 Diomedes – Olympiacos
• 28/01 18:00 PAOK – Zafiirakis
• 01/02 ASE Duka – Ionians of New Philadelphia