ZF-Eger is this year's Hungarian national champion. Tuesday Eger completed a clean sweep in the playoffs finals holding on for a close 10-9 win over Szolnok in game 3 to clinch the best-of-five series and retain the title which they previously had won back in the 2010-2011 season. The series' third encounter saw Ferenc Salamon netting his second goal of the game with 3.51 remaining to give the home side a 10-7 advantage. But Szolnok pulled back. Serbia 2012 Olympian Zivko Gocic and Oliver Kovacs scored one each to bring the visitors within one but Kovacs' goal with 0.30 remaining came too late. Eger hung on and started celebrating the championship. The team's top shooter Bence Batori ear...
CSM Digi Oradea won their 7th consecutive title in Romania this weekend. The team from the city of Oradea had no rivals in the National Super League playoffs finals. Monday the players, trained by Laszlo Toth, took the champions t-shirts after defeating Dinamo with the score of 9-7 in playoffs finals fourth game to record a clean sweep.
Different formula, different stake, different roles, but always the same intensity and the same rivaliry. For the four years now in which Marseille (33 league titles!) and Montpellier (2012 champions) are opposed in the final, Marseille never found theirselves in the role of pretender. In a final on home-and-away basis (instead of previous years “best of three”), where each goal can be crucial the challenge was totally different for both teams compared to the matches in the regular season where Montpellier lost twice.
Just like in the men's league the playoffs finals in the Greek women's league playoffs finals will see a battle of the titans. Olympiacos and Vouliagmeni clearly qualified for the finals Saturday gaining their second straight win in the semis. Olympiacos eliminated Triton Amarousiou recording a 5-13 victory in game 2 after having won the first meeting 14-5 while Vouliagmeni edged Iraklis 7-18 Saturday. Game 1 already saw a 14-7 win for Vouliagmeni. The first meeting in the best-of-five series is scheduled to be played next Wednesday. A battle of veteran Alkisti Avramidou and the young Plevritou sisters facing Alexandra Asimaki (pictured) and Christina Tsoukala: let the games begin. ...
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