PAOK had great performance against Olympiakos

PAOK made the big surprise of the round by beating the previous year champion’s team. Pamvohaikos grab the chance and climbed in the second place.

Thessaloniki’s teams succeed to take the three points during the 14th round. The bid surprise took place in Pylaia where the home team of PAOK was very effective and finally won 3-1 (25-18, 25-19, 16-25). For PAOK Apostolos Armenakis scored 12, Kostas Girtzikis 9 and Ivan Borovnjan 14 points. Olympiakos had to play without his basic setter Dima Filippov and the lidero Pavlos Kouzounis. Aris Thessaloniki’s also managed win 3-0 (26-24, 25-17, 25-17) against Panathinaikos. This is a very valuable win for Aris because both of the teams are trying to grab the necessary points to continue play in the first division of volleyball league for the next year. Kiriakidis and Tzelati scored 18 points each for Aris team. 

The home team of Iraklis easily won 3-0 (25-16, 25-21, 25-21) on Saturday’s game against Lamia. The good news for Iraklis is that his basic setter Kostas Prousalis return after his injury and used by Drikos during the third set. In the same set Drikos had also used the new Greek middle blocker of Iraklis Yiannis Takouridis. Another middle blocker of Iraklis Panagiotis Pelekoudas was the MVP of the game with 11 points, 100% efficiency and 3 blocks. Iraklis Thessalonikis will face Dinamo Moscow on Wednesday the first of February for the Challenge Round of the 2012 CEV Volleyball Cup without his basic diagonal Andreas Kravarik.

Finikas celebrate his 5th win in a row by winning 3-0 (25-21, 25-20, 25-19) Kifisia in Syros. For Finikas team Ilias Lappas scored 12 points.

Although losing the first set Panvohaikos finaly won 3-1 (24-26, 25-19, 25-15, 25-12) EAPatron in the last match of the 14th round. For Pamvohaikos team the American diagonal Mark Dusharme scored 19 and Jernej Potoncnik 18 points. Pamvohaikos grab the chance of Olympiakos loss and climbed in the second place of standings with 28 points. 

Standings (after fourteen games): Iraklis Thessalonikis 32, Pamvohaikos 28, Olympiakos 27, Finikas Syrou 26, Ethnikos Alexandroupolis 17, PAOK 17, Lamia 14, Aris 14, Kifisia 13, EAPatron 11, Panathinaikos 8 and Apollon Kalamarias 0.