Aris won against him a great victory qualifier in closed Mikras Aristotle Skydras with 3-2 sets and celebrated the ticket to the Quarterfinals of the Men’s Greek Cup.

At the end of the game, the players and coaching staff were photographed with the banner hanging on the field with Alkis Kampanos, dedicating the qualification to him.

Aris will be the only representative of the first division in the Greek Cup quarter-finals and will take part in the draw on Thursday (2/2, 12.00 CET) along with Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, PAOK, Milos, Phoinikas Syros ONEX, Kifissia and Orestiada Sport. Regardless of which team is drawn, Aris will be home as a team competing in a lower division.

Aris took a 1-0 lead, Skydra responded and won the next two, but the hosts didn’t give up, playing hard and sending the game into a fifth set.

In the tie-break, Christos Patras’ players started stronger, had control and led 13-9. Skydra reduced to a point with Sarikeisoglou’s serves, causing problems for Aris’ acceptance, but Araouhos took out the side to 14-12. Torres reduced to 14-13 but Araujo made it 15-13 after a while for the 3-2 set.

• The sentences: 3-2 (25-22, 15-25, 20-25, 25-21, 15-13)
• TO LET. MARS (Christos Patras): Araucho, Pentidis, Stefanidis C., Pavlidis, Grammenoudis, Garoutis / Pantsios (l), Leonidopoulos (l), Tzelati, Manzios, Dervas, Stefanidis M., Koutsonikas
• FES ARISTOTELES (Panagiotis Sdraukakis): Vlachopoulos, Sarikeisoglou, Papageorgiou, Flores, Torres, Tselios / Antoniou (l), Synadinos (l), Mendes, Doudoudis.

Athlos in the quarterfinals for the first time

His place in the quarterfinals was secured Athlus Orestiadathe AEK was imposed in New Philadelphia with 3-0 set.

Evros’ team is in the institution’s top eight for the first time in their history and is waiting to find their opponent in the top eight as they dream of their first qualification for the Final-4.

AEK, chasing promotion, struggled the game, particularly in the first set, leading 15-13, with Athlos on a 7-0 run for 15-20 at that point. The first set ended 19-25.

In the second and third sets, the guests took control from the start and after 69 minutes of play reached the final 0-3 with 14-25 and 18-25.

• The sentences: 0-3 (19-25, 14-25, 18-25)
• AEK (Akis Hadjiantoniou): Batatjim, Melles, Palentzas, Barbounis, Ramos, Rousis / Achilleopoulos (l), Polychroniadis (l), Kavarinos
• TO LET. ATHLOS ORESTIADAS (Thodoris Housidis): Rizopoulos, Algoul, De Pra, Genoff, Magalaes, Kasambalis / Veloudis (l), Ioannidis

Advancing to 8″ for Kifisia, 3-0 OFI

The 8 best teams also qualified Kifisiathe OFI in Zirinio in the qualifier for the quarterfinals was imposed 3-0 set.

Using the service and the block as a weapon, Kostas Christofidelis’ players won qualification for the next phase of the institution against the Cretans, who saw Giorgos Tzioumakas trouble with his calf during the warm-up and were kicked out of the game.

In the opening set of the match, Kifisia spoiled OFI’s reception with Spiliotis at her service, taking an early lead 6-1 after Maikon missed several penalties. After Okosanovic completed the balls and Ricardo scored an ace, the score was 11-3. As the set developed, OFI became more competitive, finding solutions in attack from Shikoku and Ambrao and reducing to 13-8, while then ‘nabbing’ the difference even more with consecutive blocks from Vaiopoulos and the Brazilian winger to 18-16. Okosanovic brought Kifissia out of the difficult rotation, but OFI took advantage of the home team’s many mistakes to equalize 22:22. Despite this, Kifissia got a double bowl set in 24-22 with an ace from Okosanovic and eventually won it in 25-22 with a block from Maikon.

In the second set, too, Kifisia took an early lead of 7:3, broke balls in the net, but also completed balls mostly from the middle. In fact, with consecutive blocks from Spiliotis, the difference “jumped” to 6 points, 11-5. This time Kostas Christofidelis’ players dodged the…adventures, leading by up to 10 points 18-8 with consecutive aces from Okosanovic and eventually Kifisia won the set 25-15.

The picture of the game didn’t change in the 3rd set either, when Kifisia pressed OFI from 9 yards and led 9-3 by points from a counterattack. Kifisia “didn’t look back” comfortably maintained the lead, winning the set 25-16.

• The sentences: 3:0 (25:22, 25:15, 25:16) in 73′
• *Kifisia’s points came from opponent’s 9 aces, 36 attacks, 10 blocks and 20 errors and OFI They came from 3 aces, 29 attacks, 5 blocks and 16 opponent errors
• AOP KIFISIA (Kostas Christofidelis): Okosanovich 18 (11/21 ff., 4 aces, 3 blocks), Stivachtis 1 (1/1 ff.), Ricardo 9 (7/15 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 38% ff. – 8% excellent), Spiliotis 6 (1/4 ref, 1 ace, 4 blocks), Moreira 6 (5/10 ref, 1 block), Chavers 13 (10/16 ref, 3 aces, 57% ref – 14% excellent) / Kontostathis (l, 82% SUB. – 32% excellent), Roussopoulos 1 (1 block), Papadopoulos, Tsikatos 1 (1/1 ff.)
• OFH (Kostas Delikostas): Sikukou 16 (14/30 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Adami 1 (1 ace), Vaiopoulos 5 (4/7 ff., 1 block), Demirtsi 8 (7/21 ff., 1 Ace, 50% sub – 5% excellent), Gonas 3 (2/5 v., 1 block), Ambraos 4 (2/8 v., 2 blocks, 50% sub., 12% excellent) / Chadimas ( l, 55% sub. – 23% excellent), Bardakjian, Arabopoulos, Kafantaris.

The results of the 3rd phase

• Pegasos Polichni – Finikas Syros ONEX 0-3 (20-25, 24-26, 18-25)
• AOP Kifissia – OFI 3-0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-16)
• Ares – Aristotle 3-2 (25-22, 15-25, 20-25, 25-21, 15-13)
• AEK-Athlos 0-3 (19-25, 14-25, 18-25)

* The draw to determine the pairings of the 2nd game of the 3rd phase will take place on Thursday (02/02, 12:00) in the EOPE offices. The four teams qualifying from Matchday 1 and the first four teams of the first round of Volley League participate in the lottery, i.e. Olympiacos, PAOK, Panathinaikos and Milos.