Hapoel Ashdod met the leader AS Ramat Hasharon twice this season and was defeated, but today the holder of the State Cup won 31:35 and narrowed the gap from the top to just one point – so the struggle for a home advantage throughout the playoffs reopened. Ramat Hasharon with a second loss in the last three games. After two meetings that ended without a decision, MK Holon achieved an impressive away victory over Hapoel Rishon LeZion 25:30, and it almost secures itself the 4th place. Hapoel fifth and records a loss Friday season. The two are expected to meet in the quarterfinals of the playoffs, with the home advantage currently closer than ever to Holon. The champion Maccabi Rishon LeZion did not have a hard time and achieved a crushing victory over Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin 24:40, and it is only two points away from the top. Kiryat Motzkin with a seventh loss in the top house.
The seventh round in the houses started last night with the meeting between Hapoel Kiryat Ono and Maccabi Dimona (30:27), following which the team from the Negev rose above the red line, but today is already a new order in the chair game in the lower house. Hapoel Hevel Eilot defeated MK Beer Sheva (2 points) 28:33, which practically lost a chance to survive in the senior league. AK Beats Ness Ziona achieves an impressive victory over Bnei Herzliya 26:34. Ness Ziona and Eilot have 12 points each, and Dimona has 11 below the red line.
The 8th round will open on Monday with three games: In the upper house: Holon will host Maccabi Rishon LeZion (19:00). At 19:30: Kiryat Motzkin will host Hapoel SP Ashdod. In the lower house: Beer Sheva will host Ness Ziona. On Tuesday, in the lower house: Maccabi Dimona – Hevel Eilot (19:00), Herzliya – Kiryat Ono (19:45). Upper: Ramat Hasharon vs. Hapoel Rishon Lezion (19:30).
In the Upper House – Hapoel Ashdod – AS Ramat Hasharon 31:35 (17:16)
Before the summit meeting, it was clear – that Ramat Hasharon’s victory guarantees it first place before the start of the playoffs, but Ashdod closed a gap that could have turned into only 5 points to one. Who previously played for Maccabi Tel Aviv, Rehovot and Ramat Hasharon, and will replace Igor Arsic, but after the game today she can certainly think – because Oz Yitzhak who stood at the goal provided great minutes – especially in the decisive moments. 3, which led to a quick timeout by Andrea Wakeiewicz after 4:40 minutes. From there things changed. Amit Stellman, Itai Suissa and Shachar Levin put Ashdod in the game and reduced it to 4: 3 (8 ‘). Ashdod later equalized with goals from Yossi Bitterman and Shachar Levin who completed a personal move that began with a steal – 7: 7 (14 ‘). Nivo Levy gave Ashdod the first advantage – 8: 9, and Risto Vujicic set 10:12. Ramat Hasharon regained the momentum. Daniel Sarfati and Tomislav Stojkovic with a goal from an entire field equalized to 12:12.
Ramat Hasharon regained the advantage, and the Frenchman signed the first half with a goal for the visitors. But Moszitz set 18:20 (36 ‘), but Vujicic equalized 21:21 (39’). Amit Stellman returned the advantage to Ashdod – 22:23 (42 ‘), which had already risen to 22:24 from a goal by Omar Gera. Moshitz again equalized. Gera added another important goal, from a ball that was pushed from the crossbar after a shot by Nivo Levy and set 25:27 (48 ‘). Oz Yitzhak with two consecutive stops prevented Ramat Hasharon from shrinking. Nivo Levy raised Ashdod to 27:30 (54 ‘). Stefan Ilyich scored from the penalty spot, Oz Yitzhak provided another critical stop, and Vujicic and Levin signed. 21. Many to Ramat Hasharon – Mosic 9, Chorcic 5, French 4. Stojkovic finished with 10 stops from 37 shots – and scored a goal. Judges Oren Itin and Dudi Levin.
Hapoel Rishon LeZion – MK Holon 30:25 (16:12)
In the battle for fourth place, Holon fourth came with a point advantage over Hapoel Rishon LeZion in fifth place, and ends the day with plus 3. After two meetings between the season that ended without a decision (tie 28:28 and 29:29), Holon achieves an impressive victory and rightly so Lidor Peso gave it a 4: 9 (16 ‘) advantage. Eran Tzarfati reduced it to 10: 7 in the 20th minute. Peso Lahat with 7:12 (22’). Lowered again to minus 3, but Peso was excellent and raised to 16:20. Milos Savic raised to 16:21. From there Holon ran away with goals from Or Maman and Diane Pralitza to 17:23 (40 ‘), when Maman added one Added with the entrance to the last ten minutes – 22:27 that closed the story. Many scored for Holon – Savich 7, Peso 5, Maman and Or Levy 4 each, Pralitza and Aviran Yosef 3 each, while goalkeeper Oron Bargil was also honored at the goal. Leading scorers in Hapoel : Nadav Cohen 5, Erel Zeitler and Oz Hammi 4 each. Justices Niv Schwartz and Ron Peretz.
Maccabi Rishon LeZion – Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin 24:40 (11:17)
The aforementioned champion reduces the lag from the summit to two points (and to a point from second place). Branko Kankaresh, Yirmi Sidi and Rotem Segal made sure to put the lead in the first half on 6 goals. Maccabi gave many minutes in the goal to the young Yair Nikolaev, who also proved himself. Rotem Segal set up an 18:28 (43 ‘) advantage, and from there goals from Poleg Asaig and Rotem Segal in the final minutes increased the advantage to plus 16 – the highest achieved this season in the Winner League. Judges – Matan Pinker and Alon Kaplinsky
In the lower house, two games were played today: Beer Sheva (2 points) completes its relegation to the national league with the loss in Kibbutz Yotvata against the Eilot region (12 points). Ness Ziona, as mentioned, defeats Herzliya and also with 12 points, so Dimona, which achieved its 11th point yesterday, drops again to 11th place. In the upper part of the lower house, despite the losses – Kiryat Ono (18 points) and Herzliya (17 points) are expected to close their promotion to the playoffs as early as next week.
AK Ness Ziona – Bnei Herzliya 26:34 (13:14)
The Tigers went down below the red line before the game, knowing that only a win would lift them back to a safer place. The opening was by Herzliya who led 5: 7. The continuation of the referee – Snir Natzia equalized to 8: 8, and Nikola Skorovich gave it an 8: 9 advantage. The smaller Nemanja Godovich, Or Rachimov raised it to 12:14, but a goal by Barak Carmon sealed the first half. A goal advantage for the Oranges. Saar Frenkel’s trainees looked great, and Ofir Cohen raised the lead to 17:26 (44 ‘). Ramat Hasharon). Skorovich led the referee with 8 goals. Nadler added 6. Natzia and Ofir Cohen 5 each. Rahimov 4. Dusan Andreevich with 7 goals was the leading scorer in Herzliya, whose two goalkeepers Oren Meirovich and Sagi Bonis together provided only 9 stops out of 42 shots. Judges Dor Laron and Eran Abramovich
Hapoel Hevel Eilot – MK Beer Sheva 28:33 (8:16)
The Eilot rope fell below the red line, and today it climbs above it again – with 12 points. It also gives the stamp, albeit not official, but quite clear – for the relegation of Beer Sheva (last place – 2 points) to the National League. Although she is missing two games, according to the ability today and in general the fact that she has only achieved one victory this season in 16 games – her chances of survival are nil. The game today was simply not forces, and even more so given that Query played only last Tuesday, and Beer Sheva had another day off before today’s meeting. Eilot already led by 12 goals during the second half, and then shared all its players – which caused BS to offset the lag to 5 goals in the final minutes. Kesem Amiel, king of the Winner League goals, scored again in double numbers – 12 today – who raised their balance from the start of the season to 142 goals.Judges Dudi Janko and Ronen Fischer.
Hapoel Kiryat Ono – Maccabi Dimona 30:27 (13:14)
After two frustrating games for Dimona that ended in home losses 21:20 and 27:26 to Kiryat Ono, they managed to win in Kiryat Ono, but stayed above the red line for less than a day following today’s victories of the Eilot and Ness Ziona region. Amir Dan’s great game management, who grew up and played in Kiryat Ono and led the club’s youth team last season to a historic championship win, contributed a lot to it along with a fantastic game by Yotam Tal who scored 8 goals. Dimona already led by five goals – 19:24. Ono came back from it, and Delibor Sukic reduced the deficit to just one goal – 25:24 in the 54th minute. Bogdan Nikolic raised to 26:24. Noam short in excellent personal minor minor. Roy Solomon’s goal raised to 26:28, and Thomas van Zeller with an entire field goal and Nikolic sealed the victory at 27:30. Nikolic and Sukic received red cards. Along with Yotam Tal, scored for Dimona Nikolic added 6. Ilya Petrovich finished with 5. Roy Solomon with 4. Marco Kamper and Sean Solomon with 2 each and Shalev Elimel with a goal. Leono – Tariq Ksumovich scored 8 goals, Sukic and Nevo Medina 5 each, Ofir Simon 3, Amit Gal and Roi Liebgut 2 each, Chirich and Katzer 1 each. My uncle Levin and my uncle Janko were tried.