“Paired” the victories of the National our Junior Men’s (U19) polo team in Group B of the European Championship, held in Burgas, Bulgaria, after defeating Italy with 12-10on Tuesday (3/9) and secured her direct qualification to the “8” of the event!
The next game for his whole Elias Machira is scheduled for Thursday (5/9), with an opponent that will result from Wednesday’s (4/9) crossover game.
Our representative group found itself behind in the score with 0-2 in the first eight minutes and 2-4 after three minutes in the second, but with goals from Spahits, Lykoudis and Laskaridis managed to lead 5-4. After the Italians’ 5-5, another one followed Greek series. With two goals by Georgaras and one by Angelopoulos, Bitsakou, our national team took a 9-5 lead, three minutes before the end of the third period. The Italian team managed to “gnaw” the difference (9-8 and 10-9), but in the last three minutes Lykoudis and Angelopoulos gave the solution (12-9).
GREECE-ITALY 12-10
Eight minutes: 0-2, 6-3, 3-2, 3-3
GREECE (Ilias Machiras): Partsoglou, Lykoudis 3, Nikolaidis G. 1, Georgaras 3, Tottis, Laskaridis 1, Constantopoulos, Bitsakos 1, Karatzas, Angelopoulos 2, Spahits 1, Siamas, Levantis.
Italy’s goals were scored by: Gugliotta 4, Gabacciani 2, Salipande 2, Tringali 1.
In the rest of the results: (Group C) France – Malta 15-11 and Netherlands – Turkey 16-9, (Group D): Slovenia-Czech Republic 16-14.
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