The AEK women’s volleyball team entered 2023 in impressive fashion after winning a 3-0 set against PAOK that forced them to their first loss volleyball league.

Yunus Ocal’s side excelled for much of the game and were clearly superior in all areas of the game. AEK had all their guns on a big day, unlike PAOK who had a lot of problems.

First scorer for Union was Silva with 15 points, followed by Nizetic with 14 and Calderon with 12. On the other hand, no PAOK player had double digit points.

In the first set the two teams went point by point up to 7-8 which became 12-8 and a little later 17-10, while in the second set 5-5 became 10-5 and PAOK approached 12-10, but that recovered very quickly (14-11 became 19-11).

In the third set, AEK again caused problems receiving PAOK, converting to a 10-6 by dominating the net from 7-6, with the Black and Whites (mainly Klepkou, Iliopoulou, Liagi) scoring the 10-10 equalizer, but in 11-11 became 15-11. AEK maintained a 3-4 point lead until 23-19, which became 23-21, with PAOK missing a counterattack to reduce it even further, however Calderon’s error made 24-21 24-23. But she finished the next attack and gave her team the big win.

AEK-PAOK 3-0

The sentences: 25-15, 25-16, 25-23

*AEK’s points come from 8 aces, 39 attacks, 11 blocks and 17 enemy errors and PAOK’s points come from 2 aces, 30 attacks, 5 blocks and 17 enemy errors.

AEK (Yunus Öcal): Nizetich 14 (11/25ff, 3 aces, 70% sub.-30% excellent), Calandaje 6 (2/5ff, 1 ace, 3 blocks), Calderon 12 (12/18ff, 43% sub ..-14% excellent), Konstantinidou 2 (1/1 ref., 1 block), Silva 15 (11/17 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Kulikova 6 (1/4 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks ) / Artakianou (l, 78% sub.-43% excellent), Dialla, Vlahaki 3 (1/3 w., 1 ace, 1 block 33% sub.-00% excellent), Xanthopoulou.

PAOK (Marco Fenolio): Polynopoulou 6 (5/8 ref., 1 block), Krol 5 (5/17 ref.), Strandzali 4 (3/10 ref., 1 ace, 54% sub.-31% excellent), Vergidou 1 (0/ 1 Ref, 1 Block), Caffrey 7 (6/18 Ref, 1 Block, 77% Sub-23% Excellent), Blanco 7 (5/6 Ref, 1 Ace, 1 Block) / Xanthopoulou (L, 52% sub.-14% excellent), Iliopoulos, Klepkou 3 (3/8 ff., 50% sub.-33% excellent). Liagi 4 (3/7 ff., 1 block

Easy afternoon for Lamia

AO Lamias started his competition duties for 2023 with the right hand and easily won 3-0 against the young ZAON.

The Kifisia team entered the debut of Stefanos Amaxopoulos on his bench (he replaced Kostas Liosi, who resigned just before the time change) with only 8 gymnasts from the club’s development departments (only Redoumi, Tsiakou were in the first team).

Lamia, who only seriously challenged the game in some parts of the sets, met resistance (9-9 in the first set, 4-4 in the second and 8-6 in the third) and comfortably scored her 5th win of the year, bringing it to the 8th place overall.

Lamia – ZAON 3-0

The sentences: 25-13, 25-08, 25-11

*Lamia’s points come from 13 aces, 36 attacks, 2 blocks and 24 enemy errors and ZAON’s points come from 4 aces, 12 attacks, 0 blocks and 16 enemy errors.

AO LAMIAS 2013 (Iliad Angelis): Rossiadou 4 (1/5 ref, 2 aces, 1 block), Mebus 8 (3/5 ref, 5 aces), Pereira 10 (7/11 ref, 2 aces, 1 block), Varbanova 4 (3 /6 ref, 1 ace, 43% ref – 00% excellent), Livingston 15 (14/23 ref, 1 ace, 25% ref – 25% excellent), Mitakidou 2 (1/4 ref, 1st Ass) / Tsirimokou (l, 20% sub.-07% excellent), Koutroumpi 1 (1/2 ff.), Ktistaki 4 (4/10 ff., 33% sub. 00% excellent), Soulioti 3 (2/ 3 f., 1 ace).

ZAON (Stefanos Amaxopoulos): Kaliakouda 3 (3/8 ff.), Tsiakou 2 (2/14 ff., 18% sub.-00% excellent), Koumbouni, Konsolaki 1 (1/8 ff.), Evangelou 2 (1/4 ff., 1 ace), Redoumi 5 (4/17ff., 1 ace, 22% sub.-06% excellent) / Pikouli (l, 22% sub.-06% excellent), Alysandratou 3 (1/8 ff., 2 Aces, 22% awarded under 00%).

The program of the competition

• Egaleo-Elysiacus 3-2
• AO Lamia 2013 – ZAON 3-0
• AEK-PAOK 3-0
• AO Thiras – Olympiacos FC 0-3
• ASP Thetis – AO Markopoulou Revoil 3-1
• Panathinaikos AO – AS Aris 3-0

grading

1. POC 30
2. Olympiacos SFP 27
3. EK 26
4. Panathinaikos AO 26
5. AO Thiras 19
6. ASP Thetis 18
7. AO Markopoulou Revoil 14
8. AO Lamia 2013 13
9. AO Ilysiacus 11
10. AS Aris 9
11. A.O. Egaleo 5
12. Zaon 0

Next match day

• AO Egaleo – AO Markopoulou Revoil
• ASP Thetis – AS Aris
• Panathinaikos AO – PAOK
• AEK – Olympiacos SF
• AO Thiras – AO Lamia 2013
• ZAON – AO Elysiakos