Panathinaikos reacted and prevailed in Thessaloniki against the Pine Champions with 3:1 sets.

With the three points, the Greens climbed to the top of the table, taking advantage of AO Thiras’ defeat against AEK. Pefka remained in 8th place with 10 points.

In the first set, neither team was able to gain a margin of safety. Pefkas took the lead 19:17 thanks to a counterattack from Moreno, but Panathinaikos took the lead 20:21 thanks to a block from Atkinson. The American scored diagonally to make it 22:23, but the continuation belonged to the home team. Nikolova equalized (23-23), Drakoulidou gave her team the first set of bowls with a block and then Catworth increased it to 25-23.

The second set belonged to Panathinaikos, who led 3-8 and 6-14 to bring the set to 1-1 at 16-25.

In the third set, the guests took the lead 0-7 thanks to Papafotiou’s serve, but Pefka quickly countered and equalized to 9-9 thanks to Moreno’s attack. The set was a derby and every time the Greens took the lead they saw the Pines fight their way back into the set. With the score at 19:19, Panathinaikos went on a 0:3 run with Atkinson as the star player in serve and attack and a short time later managed to equalize at 20:25.

Panathinaikos was in charge at the start of the fourth set. With a well-positioned block defense, Panathinaikos took advantage of the counterattacks and with Metaxa making the difference, the Greens led 13:20. The Pines didn’t give up and reduced Catworth to 17-20 with a serve until Karkases provided the solution for Panathinaikos (17-21). The set ended at 19:25 after Moreno ended the final 1:3 with an outside attack.

Pefka – Panathinaikos 1-3

The sentences: 25-23, 16-25, 20-25, 19-25 in 99′

*Pefki’s points came from 5 aces, 49 attacks, 9 blocks and 17 opponent errors and Panathinaikos’ points came from 5 aces, 45 attacks, 14 blocks and 34 opponent errors.

LET. CHAMPION PINE ACADEMY (Kostas Papadopoulos): Aplada 3 (1/7 Ref., 1 Ace, 1 Block), Graf 4 (2/10 Ref., 2 Blocks), Drakoulidou 3 (2/2 Ref., 1 Block), Nikolova 12 (10/31 Ref. .(l, 59% sub. – 38% excellent), Stergiaki (l), Toliou, Michopoulou.

PANATHINAIKOS AO (Yiannis Kalmazidis): Hatziefstratiadou 11 (7/11 ref., 4 blocks), Karkases 9 (9/34 ref., 37% sub – 26% excellent), Atkinson 19 (16/39 ref., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Grotous 5 (5/18 ff., 31% sub. – 15% excellent), Papafotiou 5 (1/4 ff., 3 aces, 1 block), Metaxas 12 (5/13 ff., 7 blocks) / Roga (l, 48% poor – 26% excellent), Fumaki 1 (1 ace), Genitsaridis 2 (2/4 poor, 60% poor – 60% excellent), Kelesides.

Big win for AEK against AO Thiras

Return to victories for AEK, which after two consecutive defeats took three points against AO Thiras, thereby “pushing” the Santorini team from the top of the table.

AEK played without Miroslava Paskova and Sofia Kosmas (infection), with Yunus Osal using Anna Kalandatze as the third winger (in fact, she was the key player in the fourth set) and taking full advantage of the Santorini team’s 10+ errors in this match (19 vs. 29 ).

Only in the second set did AOTH work extremely well (the only set that made fewer mistakes than AEK, 5 against 7), as they had 9 (out of 14 total) blocks there, keeping AEK to just 25% in attack.

However, in the other three games, Union was significantly better in front of the net (46% attack average vs. 35%, 12-5 blocks) and came away with a fair win.

AEK – AO Thiras 3-1

The sentences: 25-22, 19-25, 25-19, 25-18) in 96′

*AEK’s points come from 4 aces, 45 attacks, 16 blocks and 29 opponent errors and AO Thiras’ points come from 5 aces, 46 attacks, 14 blocks and 19 opponent errors.

AEK (Yunus Ocal): Iota 12 (6/11 ff., 1 ace, 5 blocks), Strandzali 12 (10/31 ff., 2 blocks, 33% under -19% excellent), Calderon 6 (4/20 ff., 2 blocks, 43 % under 14% awarded), Konstantinidou 2 (0/2 ref., 2 blocks), Blanco 11 (7/14 ref., 1 ace, 3 blocks), Nikolova 19 (16/34 ref., 2 aces, 1 block ) / Gryllaki (l, 41% sub.-35% excellent), Kalandandze 3 (2/7 sub., 1 block, 46% sub.-38% excellent).

AO THIRAS (Matteo Freschi): Popits 10 (6/16 ff., 4 blocks), Fernandes 10 (8/32 ff., 2 blocks, 40% under 15% excellent), Mercado 11 (6/24 ff., 5 blocks), Christodoulou 4 (3 /5 ff., 1 ace), Figiok 23 (19/39 ff., 3 aces, 1 block, 70% sub.-55% excellent), Kioutsiuki 7 (4/11 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks) / Georgiadou (l, 57% to 35% excellent), Karabassi.

First away points for PAOK

PAOK celebrated its first away win of the season, the victory in Markopoulos forced the local AOM to their sixth defeat in a row…

At the same time, Dikephalos won its second game in a row for the first time since the start of the season (it had won 3-0 against Aris on matchday 9), while AO Markopoulou Revoil was defeated for its fourth home game in a row.

In the first round, PAOK never lost the lead and after 6:7 managed to build a significant lead (6:10, 8:13) and turn 11:15 into 11:20.

Due to mistakes by the guests the score was 15:20, but with individual scores at 1:5 the set ended at 16:25.

A similar scenario in the second set where Markopoulos led 4-3 and Williams was eliminated, but this was also the last time as PAOK advanced 4-6 and reached 9-13. Without Williams, AOM got closer to 11-13, but at 12-14 Kyparissi’s serve pushed the score to 12-20, making the score 0-2.

AOM took a 1-0 lead in the third set, but conceded a 0:6 run by the black and whites, which was stopped by a block from Williams (2:6). PAOK maintained the lead with relative ease until 13:17, then AOM started to put pressure on the reception and we had… a derby.

Since PAOK was in the lead, the home team reduced the lead to 15:17, equalized with 21:21 and made it 22:22. Oikonomidou made it 22:24 with an attack and an ace, Nikologianni “extinguished” the first match point, but her missed serve gave PAOK the game.

Markopoulos – PAOK 0-3

The sentences: 0-3 (16-25, 17-25, 23-25) in 72′

*AOM’s points come from 6 aces, 28 attacks, 4 blocks and 18 opponent errors and PAOK’s points come from 6 aces, 39 attacks, 5 blocks and 25 opponent errors.

AO MARKOPOULO REVOIL (Pasqualino Giangrossi): De Jesus 4 (3/14 ref., 1 ace, 64% under -27% excellent), Nagels 2 (1/2 ref., 1 ace), Nikologianni 13 (12/37 ref., 1 ace, 47% under -31% excellent), Leitham 6 (6/23 ff.), Todai 8 (3/10 ff., 2 aces, 3 blocks), Kasdovasili 3 (2/64 ff., 1 block) / Antonakaki (l , 57 % below -29% excellent), Allagianni 1 (0/1 Ref., 1 Ace), Kotsara 1 (1/4 Ref.), Dimos.

PAOK (Darko Zakocs): Iliopoulou, Polynopoulou 9 (6/8 ff., 1 ace, 2 blocks), Klepkou 11 (9/21 ff., 2 aces, 42% sub.-25% excellent), Kyparissi 13 (9/15 ff., 3 Aces, 1 block, 59% ref.-32% excellent), Williams 7 (7/23 ref.), Tsioga 5 (4/7 ref., 1 block), / Xanthopoulou (l, 36% ref.-29% excellent), Oikonomido 4 (3/3 ff., 1 block), Terzoglou 1 (1/1 ff.).

Three out of six points for Ilysiakos

Ilysiakos celebrated the three points that cemented him in 6th place, prevailing with a 3-0 set from Apollonios.

Using the block as a weapon, the Ilisian team earned its fifth win in ten games in this year’s Women’s Volley League, while Apollonius suffered its fifth consecutive defeat and eighth overall.

In the decisive second set, Ilysiakos was leading 16-10, 20-13 and 21-16, only for Apollonios to come back with Asonia’s server, who increased it to 21-20 with an ace. In fact, the visitors had a bowl set of 24-25, but Ilysiakos made it 31-29 with his fifth bowl set.

Elysiakos – Apollonius 3:0

The sentences: 25-20, 31-29, 25-21 in 89′

*Elysian’s points come from 5 aces, 46 attacks, 15 blocks and 15 opponent errors and Apollonius’ points come from 3 aces, 34 attacks, 9 blocks and 24 opponent errors.

ILYSIAKOS AO (Nikos Kostakopoulos): Kalli 8 (5/12 ref., 3 blocks), Zioga 18 (15/44 ref., 3 blocks), Gogic 3 (2 aces, 1 block), Agbortabi 9 (6/23 ref., 3 blocks, 42% Sub. – 17% excellent), Bakodimou 17 (14/34 ff., 2 aces, 1 block, 61% Sub. – 22% excellent), Kandikou 11 (6/12 ff., 1 ace, 4 blocks) / Leonidou (l, 71% sub. – 24% excellent), Marathokambitou.

OFA APOLLONIOS (Nikos Boutsouris): Dialla 3 (1/7 ref., 2 blocks), Fakopoulidou 12 (11/24 ref., 1 ace, 51% ref. – 14% excellent), Rapti 7 (7/30 ref., 40% ref. – 20 % excellent), Lavda 2 (1/3 Ref., 1 Ace), Kavadia 10 (5/12 Ref., 5 Blocks), Asonia 12 (9/37 Ref., 1 Ace, 2 Blocks) / Toulgaridou (l, 85% sub. – 38% excellent), Pitta, Hatzigrigoriou, Sideratou.

The results of the competition

Saturday, December 16th

• AO Markopoulos Revoil – PAOK 0-3
• Academies of Champion Pines – Panathinaikos AO 1-3
• AS Aris – AO Lamias 2013 2-3
• AEK – AO Thira 3-1
• AO Ilysiakos – OFA Apollonios 3-0

Sunday, December 17th

• Olympiacos SFP – ASP Thetis

Grading

1. Panathenaic 24
2. AEK 22
3. AO Thiras 22
4. Olympiacos 21
5. Thetis 16
6. Elysiakos 14
7. PAOK 12
8. Markopoulos 10
9. Pine Champion Academies 10
10. Apollonius 9
11. Lamia 9
12. Mars 8