Clearly superior, Apollon Smyrnis defeated the local team 18-13 in Chania for the 13th round of A1 men’s polo and temporarily dropped to -6 in second place from the pioneer Olympiakos, leaving the home team in last place.
Eight minutes: 2-1, 4-6, 5-8, 2-3
NO CHANION (Manoussos Vizyrakis): Leventakis, Maragoudakis 1, Araki 7, Pazaitis, Pappas, Batakis, Zouzounis 1, Charitakis 1, Mitrakis, Gousarov 2, Tsistrakis 1, Mazokopakis, Koutroulakis, Bitsakis
APOLLON SMYRNIS (Nikos Deligiannis): Galanopoulos, Alamanos 5, Bogdanovich 4, Mokkas, Troulos, Diplaros, Sousiasvili 1, Chondrokoukis 1, Goniotakis 1, Gardikas 5, Tsachilides, Solanakis 1, Kavousanos, Tottis
Panathinaikos, who defeated penultimate Chios in Goudi with 8-5, is firmly in the top four.
Eight minutes: 2-1, 3-2, 1-2, 2-0
PANATHINAIKOS (Dimitris Mazis): Ristisevics, Gabriel, Kandanoleon, Zervoudakis, Nikolaidis G., Stevenson 3, Braimis, Sgouridis 1, Hatzigoulas, Dermitzakis 2, Agortsas 1, Albertis 1, Kratenimos, Chomatas, Harris
NO CHIOU (Makis Voltyrakis): Karakouros I., Mimidis, Tsikovani, Kalargyros 1, Theodosis – Papaloukas, Gagoulis 2, Pantazopoulos 1, Ambazis, Agiorgousis 1, Giannaras
PAOK comfortably beat Ethniki 14-8 in Piraeus and escaped with +10 in the third place of the second group, leaving the “blue and white” in sixth place.
Eight minutes: 1-3, 3-4, 3-1, 1-6
NATIONAL (Fanis Kountoudios): Grigoriadis, Myrilos 2, Thalassinos, Tesanovich, Gerakoudis 1, Ioannou, Protopsaltis, Karaviotis 1, Papakos, Ladas P. 2, Meski 2, Ladas S., Panaretos, Mandalios, Kokkinos
PAOK (Thodoris Hatzitheodorou): Aivaliotis, Dalapas 1, Laskaridis, Prosiniklis N., Kapragos, Kehalaris 6, Tsolakoudis 1, Xylas 1, Delitz 3, Prosiniklis P. 1, Kupman, Koupunis, Siordilis, Saleh, Karatzas 1
This, after Hydraikos moved up to fifth place, which defeated the trailing OFTH in Thessaloniki 11-7 and left them with 1 point.
Eight minutes: 2-3, 2-4, 1-2, 2-2
OFTH (Lambros Vogiatzoglou): Tsakiris, Giokas, Vakaleris 1, Stergiou 3, Giortsios 1, Nanos, Iosif, Fournarakis, Pavlidis, Keikhani, Vasits 1, Karatzovalis, Valtsiotis, Dimitriadis 1, Sakaloglou
HYDRAIKOS (Nikos Karamanis): Katsinoulas, Katsagounos 1, Takata, Garanis, Hatzikyriakakis 2, Suzuki 3, Blanis 2, Robopoulos 1, Liapakis 1, Charalamopoulos 1, Zorzos, Mitrakis, Kanellopoulos, Mouratidis
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