Iraklis and EAP had stopped their “winning in a row” contest. Kifisia made the big surprise of the 13th round by winning 3-2 (25-18, 25-18, 18-25, 18-25, 20-18) over Iraklis.
Although Kifisia had to play without the main diagonal Nanga the team was amazing on Saturday game. Bellos scored 30 and Thomas Jarmoc 20 points from Athens team. In Patra after a very good game Panathinaikos won 3-2 over the local team (23-25, 29-27, 23-25, 25-22, 6-15) having Yordanov and Lappas in a great day. In the middle of second set Sacchi was injured leaving Panathinakos with only two outside hitters for one more game this season.
In other games results Olympiakos and Aris easily won their opponents. Olympiakos won 3-0 (25-18, 26-24, 25-23) over Ethnikos Alexandroupolis and Aris won with the same score 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-19) Panellinios.
Epikouros had a great performance in Thessaloniki but finally lost from Lamia 3-1 (25-22, 20-25, 26-24, 28-30, 13-15). William Price, Alan Kommel and Branco Rolits were very effective as usual from Lamia’s team.
On Monday game PAOK won 3-2 (25-14, 25-21, 22-25, 14-25, 13-15) over Kalamaria with Bojic scoring 24 points. According to the last news EAPatron agreed with Christoforidis a very experienced Greek middleblocker and Andre Werner Saldanha Goncalves a Brazilian outside hitter. Aris took Cristiano Rodrigues Campos, Olympiakos took Johan Estrada (middleblocker From Panellinios) to replace Jiri Kral and Smaragdis return to Iraklis Thessaloniki’s team. Epikouros changed his coach Charitonidis with Persianlis. In the next round there is a big battle in Thessaloniki where Iraklis will play with Olympiakos.