Panathinaikos is fourth in men’s A1 polo. The “greens” defeated Glyfada 15-11 in Serafio for the eighth matchday of the first group and overtook ANOG by +1, leaving the team from the southern suburbs in fifth place.
Panathinaikos performed its best performance this year and even managed to lead by six goals at the end of the third period (12-6).
Eight minutes: 3-2, 6-2, 3-2, 3-5
PANATHINAIKOS (Dimitris Mazis): Ristisevics, Taliouras, Kandanoleon, Zervoudakis 1, Nicolaidis G. 2, Stevenson 1, Braimis 3, Sgouridis, Hatzigoulas 1, Dermitzakis D. 1, Agortsas 4, Albertis 2, Kratenimos, Chomatas, Skleras
ANO GLYFADAS (Georgos Papadopoulos): Kourouvanis D., Tzelatis, Vallianatos 2, Nagle, Mavrakis 1, Bobos, Mijuskovich 4, Ilic, Papageorgiou 1, Pouros 1, Iliopoulos Al. 2., Koukounas, Iliopoulos Nek., Miglis, Primikyrios
In a real derby, Ethnikis defeated AEK 10-8 in Alimos and climbed to fourth place, leaving Union in the penultimate place.
The visitors had the upper hand from the start, but AEK drew 7-7 with Araya. Papakos made it 8-7 and in the last period Ethnikis scored with Gerakoudis, while Meski at 1:23 “sealed” the victory before Siamas reduced the score to 8-10 in the final.
Eight minutes: 1-4, 4-2, 2-2, 1-2
AEK (Nikos Venetopoulos): Ashvetis, Vekkos, Stamelos, Kokkinakis 1, Mavrotas Ar., Pappas Al. 2, Siamas P. 3, Zahopoulos, Tourkomenis, Stellatos, Araya 1, Vuksevich 1, Partsoglou, Siamas Chr., Marinagis
Piraeus National Team (Fanis Kountoudios): Grigoriadis, Myrilos 1, Thalassinos 1, Tesanovich 1, Gerakoudis 1, Ioannou, Protopsaltis, Karaviotis, Papakos K. 2, Ladas P. 1, Meski 2, Ladas S. 1, Panaretos, Mandalios, Kokkinos
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