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. ...
Olympiacos has won the Greek national cup Sunday. At the pool of Lamia arch rivals and playoffs finals opponents Vouliagmeni were beaten 5-6 in a low-scoring thriller. The cup win was Olympiacos' fifteenth in team history. Standout for the victors was Ioannis Fountoulis who scored three goals. Christos Afroudakis did the same for Vouliagmeni. Both sides will now shift their attention to the playoffs finals series for the national championship. The teams are tied 1-1 with game 3 of the best-of-five series coming up on Wednesday.
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