Diomedes – Doukas 25-30: In the final of the cup, the teams of the schools

Doukas Sports Association was the big winner of the 1st semi-final in the Men’s Lux Cup Final Four, managing to beat Diomedes Argos 30-25 in overtime.

Doukas will be competing in the Institution’s Finals for the 11th time in his history, having won 4 trophies in his 10th appearance at the Final Four (1998, 1999, 2008, 2010).

His opponent will be the winner of the 2nd semi-final between Olympiacos SF/Omilo Xini and AEK (19:15-ERT3). Leaders for ASED were Tziras, Yantsa and Payatis, who scored nearly 2/3 (19 goals out of 30) of their team’s goals.
Tsigaridas was top scorer for the Wolves with 8 goals.

The game: Diomedes was better in the first half, always leading. Manthos made it 9-6 in the 21st minute, Tsigaridas made it 11-8 in the 27th minute and Tzimboulas sent the teams into the dressing room and made it 14-11.

In the second half the picture of the game changed, Doukas increased his performance, first managing to close the gap, separating in the 40th minute with Tziras 16:16 and in the 44th minute with Payatis taking the lead for the first time . The coaching team took the lead at 50′ with Tziras with two goals (18:20) and maintained this lead with another goal from Payatis to 22:24 (56:14).

Diomedes reacted and managed to reduce to 23:24 (57:00) with Tsigaridas and achieve a 24:24 draw with Betzilali at 59:30. Doukas had the last attack of the game 20 seconds after a Giorgos Chalkidis time-out but Geroulanos was beaten by Angelits who made a great save to send the game into overtime.
Going into overtime stronger and more determined, ASED took a +4 (24:28) lead with a 4-0 run in the 67th minute, setting his pace to take the win and qualify for 25:30 the final.

Diomedes – Doukas 25-30 (24-24 cd)

The five minutes: 3-1, 5-3, 7-5, 8-6, 10-8, 14-11 (mch), 15-13, 16-16, 18-19, 19-20, 21-23 , 24-24 (qa), 25-30

DIOMIDIS (Zaravinas): Kostoulas, Tsakalos 1, Tsiboulas 8, Tsigaridas 3, Svigetich 2, Terletski, Asvestas 4, Hatzikonstantinou, Kaimakamis, Totos 1, Benzilali 3, Manthos 2, Bekiaris, Angelits, Zivkovits 1, Liolios.

ASED (Chalkidis): Borodai, Markatatos, Tziras 7, Payatis 5, Tsakouridis, Panagiotou 2, Geroulanos 3, Dounis, Yantsa 7, Charitonidis 1, Kovanis 1, Gatsevich 1, Kollyris, Panou, Diakoulias 2, Stefanitsis 1.

Referee: Kinatzidis-Fotakidis. Two minutes: 6-4, penalties: 4/4-3/3