The sixth round of the Winner League continues tonight (Thursday) with the victory of Hapoel Rashalz over Hapoel Kiryat Ono 31:35 (12:18). Rashalz increases its record to 1:5 victories (like Ashdod – and the two will meet in the next round ). Uno in a reverse balance of 5:1.
Ono had to deal with the sending off of the Serbian Miloš Savić in the 20th minute, but the great ability of Oleg Astrashpekin with 12 goals, Roi Liebgot 8, Lior Gorman and Nemyan Pribak 4 KA, Antonio Pribanic (sent off during the second half in red), Chen Liebgot And Tomer Bodenheimer 2 KA and Shay Natan 1 – gave the victory to the host. Scorers for Kiryat Ono: Tarik Kasumovich 12 goals, Miloya Dolich 7, Amit Gal 4, Ilya Moseyenko, Oral Mahloof and Tom Weininger 2 goals, Alon Shulman and Lidor Pinto 1 goal.
Tomorrow (Friday) there will be three games (15:00 start time): A.K. Ness Ziona will host Maccabi Rashel, who won the first derby in the last round. Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin will host M.K. The newcomer Hapoel RG, which also remains the only one for now that did not score points. Havel Eilot and Ramat Hasharon will meet on the 28th of the month, following the match of the runner-up in the European Cup.
An interesting weekend of handball – while the women’s team took off for Iceland – where they will face the local team on Saturday and Sunday in the first stage of the European Championship qualifiers in a pair of games, the former Swiss champion, Paddy Winterthur, will land in Israel and face Saturday (17:00) in “Oranim” against A. S. Ramat Hasharon, in the return match in the second round of the European Cup (30:34 for the Swiss in the first match). On the other hand, the reigning champion Hapoel Ashdod left for Italy today, and will meet the Junior Fazano team on Saturday and Sunday at the same stage in the European Cup.