AEK, PAOK played as long as needed

AEK played as much as it needed against Ionikos and winning in New Philadelphia 31-27 for a comfortable matchday of the Handball Premier and temporarily climbed to the top of the standings, leaving the home team in ninth place.

The five minutes: 3-1, 5-5, 7-7, 10-10, 12-13, 13-15 (Day), 16-19, 17-22, 19-24, 23-25, 23-29, 27- 31

IONIC (Arvanitis): Kiultzidis, Koukoulas 7, Tausanis, Aivaliotis, Papadopoulos, Meletakos, Braudakis, Syngaris, Apostolou 3, Troulos 2, Hangelis 1, Vassiliou 2, Delichristos 5, Mantzopoulos, Elazioua 2, Liolios 5

AEK (Dzukic): Matskevics, Arabatzis 2, Zambits, Kritikos 2, Jonson 3, Madalinics 6, Mallios 5, Iliopoulos 3, Raspitsos, Papadopoulos, Tome 3, Liapis 4, Martinovic 3, Arsic, Sokolic, Kederis

Referees: Fokitis-Iakalis, Seconds: 4-4, Penalties: 2/6-2/2.

PAOK comfortably defeated AESH 30-23 in Pylaia and climbed to fifth place, leaving the hosts in eighth.

The five minutes: 1-3, 4-6, 7-7, 8-11, 11-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18-19, 18-22, 19-25, 20-26, 23-30

PYLAIA (Ananiadis): Moisiyev, Palaskas, Antoniadis 1, Karagiozopoulos 9, Danoulet, Tsortekis 2, Orfanoudakis, Vardakas, Bilias 3, Alexandridis 1, Kavousanakis 2, Kyriakidis, Triantafyllidis D. 3, Triantafyllidis T. 2, Theologis, Tzeli

PAOK (Seyrekidis): Gigof, Ladakis 3, Eleftheriadis 4, Tsamouridis, Papageorgiou 1, T. Papazoglou 3, K. Koukmisis 5, L. Papazoglou, Tsanaxidis, Marinos 1, N. Koukmisis 2, Batzios, Kalomoiros 2, Botskaref 7, Tzorginis 2

Referees: Bettman-Tzaferopoulos, Reds: 32:22 Alexandridis, 57:48 Papazoglou (three two minutes), Two minutes: 9-11, Penalty: 4/6-2/2

Even though it was difficult, Doukas defeated Zafirakis 31-27 in Naoussa and remained in the top three, leaving the Macedonians in seventh place.

The five minutes: 2-2, 6-5, 7-8, 8-9, 9-10, 11-14(em.), 14-16, 18-19, 21-22, 22-26, 23-28, 27- 31

ZAFIRAKIS (Deligiannis): Bolas, Tsageras 4, Theodoropoulos 6, Bouboulentas, Barbas, Rotzios, Misailidis 10, Biliouris, Athanasiadis, Apostolidis 2, Sarafis, Deligiannis, Vafeidis, Tsatsas 2, Ferlakhidis, Lolas 3

ASED (Halkidis): Kiartzidis, Payatis 2, Batis 7, Khatsaturian, Kolezakis, Panagiotou 4, Papadopoulos, Khoursoudian 2, Geroulanos 9, Yantsa 1, Charitonidis 2, Kovanis 1, Arapakopoulos, Zivoulovich 1, Kollyris, Diakoulias 2

Referees: Tsianas – Tolios, Two minutes: 2-5, Penalty: 3/3-1/1

In a real “thriller”, Drama defeated Aeropos 28-27 in Edessa, placed fourth and consistently left the home team in the penultimate place.

The five minutes: 2-1, 3-5, 7-7, 9-9, 11-12, 14-14 (m), 15-17, 17-19, 20-20, 22-22, 24-24, 27-28

AIRPLANE (Tutsis): Athanasiou, Goncharov, Tzoulis, Robes, Krallis 8, Papagiannis 1, Butkaris 1, Veremchuk 1, Sachenko 4, Ofrisenko 6, Koukoutsidis 3, Gatsis, Papadopoulos 3, Giannoussis, Marinos, Totidis

DRAMA (Valavanis): Kotsionis 6, Haitidis 3, Polydoros 1, Latsakou 1, Tozakidis, Toskas 10, Tungelidis, Lazaridis, Kalaitzidis, Cavazis, Manoloudis, Messinis, Dakaris, Korsak, Papadopoulos 5, Sina 2

Referees: Patios-Pitas, Two minutes: 6-6, Penalty: 2/4-4/5

Kilkis left last place with a 23-22 win in Kypseli over Panhellini, who found themselves in a tailspin.

The five minutes: 3-1. 8-2, 10-5, 11-7, 12-9, 14-10 (am) 15-12, 16-13, 17-15, 18-17, 20-20, 22-23

PANHELLINIOS (Samaras): Dougias, Anagnostopoulos 4, Danezis, Vertzonis, Tokatzoglou 1, Stathis 3, Nakos 2, Roussos 7, Skourtai 1, Prokopiou, Koutoulogenis 3, Vlachothanasis, Alikakos, Hatzigiannis

KILKIS (Georgiadis): Borodai 1, Radoisic 2, Metsis 2, Kypraios 2, Migas 3, Fachauridis S. Eleftheriadis 4, Giannakidis, Karvounidis, Sigiridis 2, Fachouridis A., Berezni 7, Giannakopoulos, Giavasidis, Taramons, Pasalits

Referees: Sklavenitis-Beta, Red: 59:56 Borodai, Two minutes: 5-4, Penalty: 0/1-1/1