Kalamaria – Pao
On Thursday two of the tightest games of this round took place in Thessaloniki. In Pylaia PAOK drop a point to Aris by winning 3-2 (25-23, 23-25, 21-25, 25-21, 15-10). Apostolos Armenakis led PAOK with 27 points.
At the same time one km away another great battle finished on tie-break. Panathinaikos even he loses the first two set finally managed to win 2-3 (25-23, 25-23, 28-30, 20-25, 10-15) against Apollon Kalamarias. For Panathinaikos team Stojkovic scored 36 points.
On Wednesday games Iraklis drop a point to Kifisia by winning 3-2 (25-23, 22-25, 25-18, 17-25, 13-15). The 40th year old Andreas Kravarik was fantastic in the last set but other players of Iraklis were in a very bad day. Olympiakos easily won 3-0(25-15, 25-22, 25-16) against EAPatron and managed to reach Iraklis on top of the league. For the previous year’s champions Andres Roland Himenez scored 12 and Marek Novotny 13 points.
Finikas Syrou easily won 3-1 (25-21, 25-22, 20-25, 25-20) the game against Pamvohaikos in Syros. Nikiforidis who scored 19 points, Ilias Lappas 17, Tomislav Dokic 16 and Soultanopoulos with 14 points and 8 blocks were the best players for Finikas team.
Ethnikos Alexandroupolis easily won 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-16) Lamia in Alexandroupoli.
Standings (after nine games)
Iraklis 24,
Olympiakos 24,
Pamvohaikos 19,
Finikas Syrou 18,
Ethnikos Alexandroupolis 14,
Lamia 11,
EAPatron 11,
Kifisia 11,
Aris 10,
PAOK 10,
Panathinaikos 6 and A
pollon Kalamarias 4.
Best action of 8th (the previous) round games
