With its best performance this year, Olympiacos Piraeus won 3-1 sets against AEK and moved to the top of the women’s volleyball league.

The red and white team, where Koumbura was unstoppable, achieved a great victory. Serva finished diagonally with 29 points, followed by Nizetich with 14 and Mleinkova with 11.

For AEK, Olga Strantzali was the first scorer with 16 points, followed by Nikolova with 14.

AEK – Olympiacos Piraeus 1-3

The sentences: 22-25, 25-23, 18-25, 22-25

Clear three points for the Greens against Lamia

Panathinaikos celebrated its 7th win with a 3-1 win against Lamia in Metz. Lamia, on the other hand, achieved its own record of 2:6, although it was very hard fought in another game.

In the first set the guests had problems receiving after 5:6, PAO ran a 5:0 run (10:6) and a little later made it 18:11 and 1:0.

The second place was completely different: PAO started with Genitsaridis and led with 6:3, but with partial scores of 3:9 Lamia overtook 10:12 and came to 12:15 with an ace from Fliakos. After Kalmazidis’ timeout, the guests lost a counterattack for +4, PAO equalized and reached 20-18. With Atkinson out, the score was 20-20, but the American cleared the set. At 21-21 we had a lost serve and an out attack from Souza (23-21), with Atkinson finishing the last two PAO attacks 25-23.

Despite losing the set, Lamia did not let the game with Panathinaikos turn into a 9:9 from 5:8, but when the score was 14:15 it was 14:19 a little later with Pegisic on serve. Panathinaikos could not react (16-20, 16-23) and increased to 2:1.

However, at some point Lamia’s reaction stopped and the Greens escaped with 10-6 (from 7-6) and that was where it all ended. The difference kept growing (13-8, 20-9) and reached the final with 25-11.

Panathinaikos – Lamia 3-1

The sentences: 3-1 (25-17, 25-23, 17-25, 25-11) in 99′

*Panathinaikos’ points came from 4 aces, 56 attacks, 9 blocks and 23 opponent errors and Lamia’s from 3 aces, 42 attacks, 10 blocks and 21 opponent errors.

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Yiannis Kalmazidis): Hatziefstratiadou 4 (4/10 ff.), Karkases 4 (4/17 ff., 50% under -20% excellent), Atkinson 24 (22/47 ff., 1 ace, 1 block), Grotous 9 (9/19 Ref., 70% sub.-30% excellent), Papafotiou 5 (1/1 ref., 2 aces, 2 blocks), Samandan 9 (6/11 ref., 3 blocks) / Roga (l, 53% sub. -20% excellent), Fumaki, Vasilantonaki, Metaxas 3 (1/2 Ref., 2 Blocks), Kelesides 2 (1/1 Ref., 1 Block), Genitsaridis 9 (8/21 Ref., 1 Ace, 62% sub. – 33% excellent).

AO LAMIAS 2013 (Ilias Angelis): Souza 13 (12/32 ff., 1 ace), Olinga 14 (10/21 ff., 1 ace, 3 blocks), Kilic 14 (11/34 ff., 3 blocks, 58% sub-15% excellent) , Pegisic 7 (6/26 ref., 1 block, 58% under -16% excellent), Fliakou 2 (0/2 ref., 1 ace, 1 block), Argyriou 5 (3/16 ref., 2 block) / Pagoni (l, 55% sub.-14% excellent), Tsirimokou (l), Papaconstantinou, Marathokambitou, Souliotis.

Ilysiakos also defeated PAOK with 3:2 sets

After a two-hour battle, Ilysiakos celebrated the big victory over PAOK, which allowed them to climb to 6th place in the standings.

This was the third home win for Ilysiakos and the second in a row, while PAOK remained winless away in Thessaloniki and were stuck in 11th place.

The first sentence was the one with the long stripes. 5-4 became 10-4 for Ilysiakos, with PAOK having problems receiving but reacted and reduced to 10-9, but 12-10 became 19-10 in the same way and 1-0 fell easily for the excellent Elysian .

In the second set there was more balance, at least until 18:17. PAOK lost to a draw and there, after presenting the picture of the first set with constant errors in reception and attack, gave Ilysiakos the right to escape with 23:17 and reach 2-0.

In the third set, Zakots changed the formation by using Williams diagonally and Klepkou as Milanova’s partner, with PAOK having a better image and leading 9-12. Ilysiakos cut the score to 12-13 and equalized with a counterattack, but a block from Bakodimou and an out from Kandikos brought PAOK back to +3 (12-15), making the difference even bigger (14-20). Kostakopoulos’ substitutions and PAOK’s relaxation brought the score to 18-22, but after Zakot’s timeout, PAOK accepted the substitution and managed to reduce the score.

The battle continued in the 4th set, with PAOK maintaining a lead of a point or two (2-4, 4-6, 7-8) and Ilysiakos losing a tiebreak at 13-14, followed by Vigars’ ace at 13- 16. PAOK escaped with 15-19, Ilysiakos reduced it to 19-21, but there he scored a new run to 21-25, which sent the game to a tiebreak.

Ilysiakos started better there (2:0, 4:2), but PAOK equalized and the two teams kept up until the score was 9:9, which turned into a score of 11:9 against Zioga. PAOK tied with Williams 11-11, but Bakodimou’s block against Polynopoulou gave Ilysiakos the Double Match Bowl, so Bakodimou finished the game again 15-13.

Ilysiakos – PAOK 3-2

The sentences: 3-2 (25-14, 25-19, 19-25, 19-25, 15-13) in 119′

*Elyssiakou’s points come from 7 aces, 59 attacks, 10 blocks and 27 opponent errors and PAOK’s points come from 5 aces, 55 attacks, 6 blocks and 30 opponent errors.

AO Ilysiakos (Nikos Kostakopoulos): Kalli 9 (6/10 ref., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Zioga 21 (19/42 ref., 1 ace, 1 block), Gogic 3 (0/1 ref., 2 aces, 1 block), Agbortabi 12 (10/29 ff., 1 ace, 1 block, 47% under -19% excellent), Bakodimou 13 (9/34 ff., 3 blocks, 54% under -23% excellent), Kandikou 18 (15/22 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks) / Leonidou (l, 50% sub.-31% excellent), Katsika, Brooks, Marathokambitou.

PAOK (Darko Zakocs): Iliopoulou 1 (1 ace), Polinopoulou 3 (3/9 F.), Tsioga 2 (2/4 F.), Oikonomidou 2 (2/14 F.), Williams 29 (27/53 F., 1 ace, 1 Block, 43% sub.-14% excellent), Milanova 11 (10/34 sub., 1 block, 56% sub.-40% excellent) / Xanthopoulou (l, 68% sub.-47% excellent), Papadopoulou ( l), Vigars 9 (5/7 ref., 1 ace, 3 blocks), Klepkou 4 (4/11 ref., 60% under-33% excellent), Kyparissi, Terzoglou 5 (2/5 ref., 2 aces , 1 block).

The results of the competition

• Panathinaikos – Lamia 3-1
• Aris – AO Thiras 0-3
• Markopoulos – Thetis Voulas 1-3
• Pefko Academies – Apollonius 3-1
• AEK – Olympiacos Piraeus 1-3
• Ilysiakos – PAOK 3-2

Grading

1. AEK 19
2. Panathinaikos 18
3. Olympiakos 18
4. AO Thiras 16
5. Thetis 13
6. Elysiakos 11
7. Markopoulos 10
8. Pine Champion Academies 10
9. Apollonius 9
10. Mars 7
11. PAOK6
12. Lamia 4

* AO Thiras and Apollonios have one game less

Next match day

• 4:30 p.m. Olympiacos SF – Academies of Champion Pines
• 18:00 AO Lamia 2013 – AO Ilysiakos
• 6:00 p.m. PAOK – AS Aris
• 19:00 AO Thiras – AO Markopoulou Revoil
• 7:00 p.m. ASP Thetis – AEK
• 19:00 OFA Apollonios – Panathinaikos AO