The second round in the upper and lower house of the Winner League in handball started today (Friday), and the main game brought together the leaders Hapoel Rishon LeZion and the leader AS Ramat Hasharon. The Reds, who were defeated in the previous meeting (30:26), came back with a dramatic 25:26 victory, which is also Ramat Hasharon’s first loss of the season after 12 consecutive victories.
Bnei Herzliya stunned Hapoel Ashdod with a crushing 31:38 victory. Maccabi Rishon LeZion did not have a hard time against Holon with a 25:33 victory, and thus – Ramat Hasharon and Hapoel Rishon Lezion in a tie – 24 points each (Ramat Hasharon is missing a game against Holon next month). Maccabi Rishon LeZion clung Ashdod is in third place, and Bnei Herzliya is in fifth place with a 5-point advantage over Holon in sixth.
In the lower house – victory and debut points for Rehovot, after beating MK Beer Sheva 24:27, which continues to get involved in the struggle for survival. Luckily for BS, Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin achieved a dramatic victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv 33:34.
Hapoel Altshuler Shaham Rishon LeZion – AS SGS Ramat Hasharon 25:26 (9:13)
The summit meeting opened with a very low score, when only after 12 and a half minutes Stefan Terzic scored the fifth goal of the game and set 2: 3 to Ramat Hasharon, but continued with a great fight and revolutions. Hapoel stopped Ramat Hasharon, the best offensive team in the league On average) about sharp I told in the first half – thanks to the great ability of Tom Shem Tov excels the game.
Ramat Hasharon rose sharply to the second half, biting Hapoel’s advantage (in its ranks Shai Natan was sent off). Eden Ginji squeezed a penalty – the same Gil Pomeranz scored and set a tie 17:17 (42 ‘). 21, and 23:24, but within those minutes Shem Tov excelled, Oz Hammami scored a spectacular goal from the corner, and Tal Hershkovitz scored two goals (among them Nadav Habib equalized) and led to a decision in the game in which Daniel Shekel and Milan Pavlovitz were sent off in Ramat Hasharon, and Shai Natan and Dalibor Sukic at Hapoel.
Bnei Herzliya – Hapoel Ashdod 31:38 (13:18)
While Ashdod came cheering from a victory over Maccabi Rishon LeZion, and Herzliya less after a loss to Hapoel Rishon LeZion – we won a very surprising game today on the part of Herzliya, which overwhelmingly won one of the championship candidates. In the ranks of Herzliya, goalkeeper Sagi Bonis and center Nemania Goodwick excelled.
MK Yuvalim Holon – Maccabi Rishon LeZion 33:25 (17:11)
Montenegrin pivot Branko Kankresh was unstoppable with 8 goals from 9 attempts (the same balance of conquest as Ivan Karacic). Amir Schneider provided 7 goals (from 8 attempts), and in Rishon LeZion we can also mention Tzach Malul and Dor Calderon who managed the game well, and the young goalkeeper Yair Nikolaev (who grew up in Holon) who provided good minutes and stopped two penalties.
Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin – Maccabi Tel Aviv 33:34 (18:18)
Motzkin is already fully on his way to competing for promotion to the quarterfinals, after a dramatic victory today – Philip Laubch the pivot scored the winning goal 13 seconds to go, after Itai Turkenitz equalized in a penalty shootout to Maccabi Tel Aviv earlier.
MK Beer Sheva – Urbani Rehovot 27:24 (13:11)
Rehovot achieves victory and debut points and leaves itself little chance in the struggle for survival. BS, on the other hand, continues to get into trouble. BS played without its foreigners Stefan Chiric (who returned to Serbia due to a family problem) and the expelled Georgia Golobovic. Despite this, she started excellently and led 1: 4 in great minutes by Omar Simon and Doral Ben Saadoun. The continuation was of Rehovot, who already led by 4 goals in the second half. BS managed to equalize and turn the score around in the final minutes, but the extension belonged to Sabo Master, Matan Goltz, Dean Perlov alongside stops by Lior Kaplan.