The eighth round of the
league was the round of favorites. Iraklis Thessalonikis is leading the
championship followed by Olympiakos whose team easily won Panathinaikos.
On Saturday Iraklis won 3-1
(21-25,
25-18, 25-15, 25-22) the game against Finikas Syrou. Although Iraklis had
to play without the injured setter Kostas Prousalis the team had the strength to
wake up after the second set and finally managed to take the three points. Nikoalos Smaragdis the experienced middle blocker of Iraklis scored 15 points helping his
team to stay on the top of Greek volleyball league. Finikas after the injury of
Dangubic in the first set could not resist to
Thessaloniki’s team.
In Athens Panathinaikos could not fight even for a set against his major
enemy. Olympiakos team easily won 0-3 (18-25, 21-25, 19-25) in a 70 minute’s game. For the previous year’s champions Andres Roland Himenez scored 19
and Marek Novotny 10 points. Panathinaikos
is in the worst position of his resent history facing big economic problems.
EAPatron took the three points with great performance against Kifisia.
The Peloponnesian team won 3-1 (28-26, 16-25, 25-23, 25-18) leaded by Anastasios Aspiotis.
Pamvohaikos stayed on
the third place by beating 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-20) PAOK with the usual
suspect, the American diagonal Mark Dusharme
scoring 14 points.
Sunday took place the tightest of all
games in Thessaloniki where Aris managed to win 3-2 (25-17, 31-33, 25-22,
23-25, 20-18) Ethnikos Alexandroupolis in the tie-break. Aris used Rizopoulos
as libero after the loss of the greatest libero of the championship the Serbian
star Marko Samardzic. The president of the team had agreed to leave Marco
because of his expensive contract.
Finally Lamia in the
last game of the round did not found any difficulties to win 3-0 (25-17, 25-14,
25-16) against Apollon Kalamarias
Standings (after eight
games): Iraklis 22, Olympiakos 21, Pamvohaikos 19, Finikas Syrou 15, Ethnikos
Alexandroupolis 11, Lamia 11, EAPatron 11, Kifisia 10, Aris 9, PAOK 8, Panathinaikos 4 and Apollon Kalamarias 3.
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