For the 16th game of the Women’s Volley League, Panathinaikos had no particular problems. The Greens prevailed 3-0 against Thetida Voula and remain at the top of the table.

There was perfect balance in the first set up to 7-8, but PAO got the switch, Grothes served and PAO escaped with 11-8 and 13-9. Thetis cut down to 13-11 but it all ended up at 16-13 which turned into 21-13 with the greens easily hitting 1-0.

Voula’s team started the second set impressively, escaping 1-4 and 2-6, but 5-8 became 10-8 with cross crossing which caused a lot of problems with the reception of the guests who made it with a good block staying in the game and the attacks of Anthouli (17-18 with an ace of the latter). Thetis lost the opportunity to get to +2 when Aktas went out at 18-19, but got a row of bowls (23-24) which Grotesht put out as she did in the second row of bowls (25-25), to pursue them out of Dragoumanou and Grothes new attack for the 27-25 endgame.

Thetis tried to return better from the third set (7-10, 9-13) but couldn’t hold the difference when PAO approached 12-13, turning 13-14 into 17-14. The guests were reduced to 17-16 and 20-18, but without being able to achieve more, Grotesht cleared all critical phases again.

Fluctuation:

• 1st movement: 7-8, 16-12, 21-13, 25-14
• 2nd movement: 5-8, 16-14, 21-20, 27-25
• 3rd movement: 6-8, 16-14, 21-18, 25-21

* Panathinaikos’ points came from 7 aces, 49 attacks, 6 blocks and 15 mistakes by the opponents and Thetida came from 2 aces, 37 attacks, 9 blocks and 12 mistakes by the opponents.

The sets: 3-0 (25-14, 27-25, 25-21) in 84 ‘

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Apostolos Oikonomou): Chatziefstratiadou 6 (5/10 ff., 1 ace), Konstantinou 4 (4/13 ff., 55% yp – 30% excellent), Cross 14 (8/22 ff., 3 aces, 3 blocks), Stepanenko 15 ( 14/37 ff., 1 block), Grotes 16 (14/17 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 80% min. – 60 excellent), Papafotiou 3 (2 aces, 1 block) / Roga (l, 69% Min. – 38% awarded), Khantava 4 (4/8 ff., 73% Min. – 64% awarded).

ASP THETIS (George Rousis): Aplada 4 (1/9 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Sirinina 7 (4/8 ff., 3 blocks), Anthouli 15 (13/38 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Rusnatshenko 1 (1 block )), Apostolaki 5 (5/8 ff., 39% min. – 22% awarded), Aktas 14 (14/32 ff., 31% min. – 17% awarded) / Maniatogianni (l, 38% min. – 23% excellent), Chatzigrigoriou, Dragoumanou 2 (2 blocks, 29% below – 14% excellent), Panagopoulou.

LEAVE. Mars – AO Lamia 3-1

Return to the victories for Aris who struggled to prevail against the fighting lamia in the house of Mikra.

In the first set, Aris turned the 2-2 to 9-2 with Mylona on serve, but Lamia returned to the set for the first time when the 11-4 turned into 11-8 and 12-10. Aris managed to escape again 19-14 and hit 23-18, but with Kountoura on serve and exceptional performance in block defense, Lamia served 0-6 and hit a set of bowls (23-24) but two points off Mercada and poor communication from Kountouras gave Araoucho Aris the set.

The second set was much more ambiguous initially, with Aris escaping for the first time with 12-10, Lamia tied at 15-15, and responding on 18-15 which brought the game back into balance (18-18) but Lamia. However, at 20-19 the score got stuck and Aris hit 24-19 on consecutive counters to close the set at 25-20.

In the third set, Lamia led 8-9, but on Swan’s serve Aris hit 14-19 to hold the +5 through 21-16. Lamia nagged again at the difference to 21:19 and although Aris got the change (22:19), the guests ran an unbelievable 0: 6 series (with Pereira ended many difficult attacks) to 2: 1.

Lamia’s counterattack, however, was not continued as Aris came into the game very strongly in the 4th set and escaped early 4-1 and 8-2, while everything ended with 11: 7, which was 16: 7 and the yellows and blacks easily reached the last 25-10

Fluctuation:

• 1st movement: 8-2, 16-13, 21-16, 26-24
• 2nd movement: 6-8, 16-15, 21-19, 25-20
• 3rd movement: 8-6, 16-10, 21-16, 22-25
• 4th movement: 8-3, 16-7, 21-10, 25-10

* Aris’ points came from 7 aces, 54 attacks, 10 blocks and 27 opponent mistakes and AO Lamia came from 1 ace, 45 attacks, 5 blocks and 28 opponent mistakes.

The sentences: 3-1 (26-24, 25-20, 22-25, 25-10) in 92 ‘

ARIS (Yiannis Tsairelis): Kioutsiouki 7 (3/9 episode, 2 aces, 2 blocks), Mylona 7 (2/4 episode, 3 aces, 2 blocks), Mercado 16 (15/39 episode, 1 block), Drakoulidou 4 (2/4 ff. , 2 blocks), Swan 15 (11/33 ff., 2 aces, 2 blocks, 79% min. – 57% excellent), Evans 22 (21/38 ff., 1 block, 64% min. – 50% excellent ) / Kampouri (l, 42% yp – 32% excellent), Kourtidou (l, 62% yp – 58% excellent), Tani, Gaitanidou, Lappa.

AO LAMIAS 2013 (Elias Angelis): Kountoura 5 (4/4 ff., 1 block), Roumeli 3 (3/6 ff.), Koumboura 7 (7/28 ff., 39% yp – 32% excellent), Pereira 19 (17/50 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 45% min. – 20% excellent), Araoucho 12 (9/20 episode, 3 blocks), Kissa 4 (4/11 episode) / Kakouratou (l, 61% min. – 46% excellent) , Kontonassiou 1 (1/2 ff.), Papakonstantinou, Tsirimokou, Giannelou.

.Ο. Thira – Pannaxiakos 3-0

AO Thiras doubled their wins in 2022, prevailing in his first home game of the new year with a 3-0 set from Pannaxiakos.

With the exception of the beginning of the second set, which was back in the standings at 11-6, the Santorini team had no problem scoring the three points. AOT, despite the fact that it was difficult to obtain (31, 31% excellent), had an attack efficiency of 46%, an element that played a huge role in the outcome of the game.

Extreme Abbots and Mitrovic topped the hosts with 16 and 15 points respectively, while Pannaxiakos Liagi was the only one with double-digit points (11.

Fluctuation:

• 1st movement: 8-4, 16-11, 21-14, 25-15
• 2nd movement: 4-8, 15-16, 21-18, 25-19
• 3rd movement: 8-6, 16-11, 21-18, 25-19

* The points of Thira came from 4 aces, 49 attacks, 5 blocks and 17 mistakes by the opponents and from Pannaxiakos came from 2 aces, 30 attacks, 4 blocks and 17 mistakes by the opponents.

The sentences: 3-0 (25-15, 25-19, 25-19) in 77 ‘

AO THIRAS (Costas Papadopoulos): Holston 10 (9/25 ff., 1 ace), Abbott 16 (16/36 ff., 57% min. – 48% excellent), Dialla 6 (5/7 ff., 1 ace), Konstantinidou 5 (3 / 4 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Mitrovic 15 (12/23 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks, 24% min. – 18% excellent), Argyriou 6 (4/11 ff., 2 blocks) / Artakianou (1.40% below – 20% excellent), Adamopoulou, Goltsiou.

PANNAXIAKOS AON (Patrick Vogel): Nikologianni 9 (8/33 ff., 1 block, 36% min. – 18% awarded), Peisoto 4 (4/13 ff., 44% min. – 36% awarded), Vlasic 2 (1/5 ff., 1 block), Mitakidou 3 (2/7 F., 1 block), Karafoulidou 7 (5/14 F., 2 aces), Liagki 11 (10/33 F., 1 block) / Antonakaki (1.58%. – 47% excellent), Vallindra, Manai, Fliakou.

AEK – Ilysiakos AO 3-0

With serves and blocks that earned him 21 points, AEK prevailed in the New Philadelphia hall with 3-0 sets from Elysiakos. With the three victory points, the Union rose to 4th place in the overall ranking, leaving PAOK to -1 and 5th place.

With a score of 16:12 in the third set, as indicated by the referees in the match report, AEK fans lit smoke in the stadium, which resulted in the game being temporarily interrupted and the stadium being completely evacuated within the scheduled time of 45 minutes.

Kostas Arseniadis’ athletes from the first serve of the match dropped their rhythm and effortlessly achieved final dominance.

Fluctuation:

• 1st movement: 8-5, 16-11, 21-12, 25-14
• 2nd movement: 8-2, 16-7, 21-11, 25-13
• 3rd movement: 5-8, 16-12, 21-15, 25-19

* AEK’s points came from 11 aces, 41 attacks, 10 blocks and 13 mistakes by opponents and Elysiakos came from 21 attacks, 6 blocks and 19 mistakes by opponents.

The sentences: 3-0 (25-14, 25-13, 25-19) in 109 ‘

AEK (Costas Arseniadis): Kosma 14 (9/20 ff., 2 aces, 3 blocks, 53% vs. – 33% excellent), Lindsay 22 (17/32 ff., 3 aces, 2 blocks, 62% vs. – 50% excellent), Terrell 6 (6/13 ff.), Vergidou 6 (1/3 ff., 4 aces, 1 block), Gudimenko 3 (1/7 ff., 2 blocks), Brown 8 (4/11 ff., 2 aces ), 2 blocks) / Belia (l, 36% yp. – 36% awarded), Georgiadou (l, 67% yp. – 50% awarded), Dioti 43 (3/9 ff.), Papa, Tsochatzi, Kavvadia.

ILYSIAKOS AO (Nikos Costakopoulos): Legros 9 (8/25 ff., 1 block), Sevkenek 3 (1/2 ff., 2 blocks), Ziga 1 (1/4 ff.), Papadede 3 (3/13 ff., 33% yp. – 17% excellent), Tzalali 2 (2 blocks), Radovic 4 (3/21 ff., 1 block, 26% yp – 12% excellent) / Leonidou (l, 60% yp – 27% excellent), Pavlea (λ ), Sotiriou 4 (4/15 ff., 50% yp – 33% awarded), Silla, Bliatsou, Michelakou 2 (2 blocks).

Α.Ο.Ν. Amazons – Α.Π.Σ. Ajax 3-0

The Amazons prevailed in New Eritrea with 3-0 sets from Aiada Evosmos and climbed to 8th place in the overall standings.

The team from Nea Erithraia with 21 points is +2 from Lamia, which has less game, and +6 from Markopoulos with two more games.

With the exception of the third set, the athletes of Leonidas Gaitanakis had no problem and reached the three-point after … minutes.