Aristotelis – Athlos 3:2: First victory after a surprise

THE Aristotle Skydras although he lost by 2-1 sets and o Athlus Orestiada He had two chances to take the three points, he managed to pull off a little upset and win 3-2 sets after an exciting game with many changes in the number of points, excitement, passion and a beautiful spectacle to celebrate the first victory in the Volley League championship.

Skydra’s team made its debut in the Kalyvia gymnasium and this year it featured its three Cubans, who were top players along with Kostas Prousalis, for the first time. Panagiotis Sdraukakis’ team held the dominance of serve, hitting 12 aces and avoiding errors in the critical points that decided the game.

Athlos Orestiada started the match slowly and lost the 1st set, but with the rise of De Pra and Genoff, they leveled the match and led 2-1, 24-23 and 25-24 but failed to win. He managed to win the 3rd set 27-25, despite losing to Aristotle 24-23 due to an attacking error by De Pra. Genoff and Kasambalis with blocks gave Athlos a 25-24 lead, Jackson equalized 25-25, but Kayo with an attack and Algoul with a block made it 27-25 and 2-1 for the Orestiada team

The 4th set was also exciting, which was also decided 27-25, but for Aristotelis, even if this time Athlos was the first to score a point before winning the match. He led 24-23 on Jackson’s missed serve and 25-24 with De Pra, but Jackson equalized with an attack and two errors by De Pra (an outside attack and a block by Chelio) made it 27-25 and 2-2 for the Skydra team.

In the tiebreak and with the score at 7:7, Mendez made it 8:7. Proussalis served and with an ace and a 6-0 aggregate run, he gave Aristotelis a crucial lead, who secured the precious victory by taking the first 2 points in the championship.

Sets: 3-2 (25-20, 16-25, 25-27, 27-25, 15-10) in 124′

*Aristotelis Skydras’ points come from 12 aces, 55 attacks, 11 blocks and 30 enemy errors and Athlos Orestiada’s points come from 6 aces, 55 attacks, 11 blocks and 35 enemy errors.

FES ARISTOTELIS SKYDRAS (Panagiotis Sdraukakis): Mendez 18 (12/29ff., 5 aces, 1 block), Jackson 22 (19/34ff., 3 aces, 58% sub – 31% excellent), Santoval 11 (6/13 ff .., 1 ace, 4 blocks), Prusalis 2 (1 ace, 1 block), Tselios 14 (11/13 ref, 3 blocks), Sarikeisoglou 7 (4/12 ref, 1 ace, 2 blocks, 59% ref – 41% excellent) / Synadinos (l, 60% sub. – 28% excellent), Pantakidis, Sdraukakis 1 (1/1 ff.), Vlachopoulos, Paleologos 3 (2/6 ff., 1 ace).

TO LET. ATHLOS ORESTIADAS (Ilias Kreuzis): Tsioutsiouludis 9 (Ref. 5/8, 4 blocks), Kaios 20 (Ref. 17/33, 2 aces, 1 block), Kasampalis 4 (Ref. 1/2, 2 aces, 1 block), Algul 14 (11/22ff, 3 blocks), Rizopoulos 9 (7/17ff, 1 ace, 1 block, 50% sub – 22% excellent), Genoff 16 (14/30 ff, 1 ace, 1 block, 78% sub. – 47% excellent) / Veloudis (l, 69% sub. – 34% excellent), Spanos (l), Tsolakidis, Bozidis.