Panathinaikos and PAOK continue leading the Greek Championship. Panathinaikos did not find any difficulties to win 3-0 (14-25, 22-25, 17-25) over Panellinios with Bojan Yordanov scoring 16 points.
The team of Panellinios is the worst team of Greek league till now and had to try much harder to remain in the first division. In Thessaloniki PAOK faced Epikouros and managed to win 3-1 (23-25, 21-25, 25-19, 23-25) with Marko Bojic scoring 19 points.
Great battle between EAPatron and Iraklis finished in tiebreak. EAPatron finally won 3-2 (18-25, 26-24, 20-25, 25-22, 15-9) with the team of Iraklis having justified complaints from referee’s decisions.
Apollon Kalamarias won 3-2 (25-21, 22-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-9) over Kifisia in Thessaloniki. Papadimitriou from Kalamaria’s team had great performance scoring 19 points. On the other hand Sacchi with 17 points was the most effective player for Kifisia’s team.
Olympiakos in Athens won 3-1 (19-25, 25-19, 25-21, 25-22) over Lamia. Olympiakos had won 17 block points with Tzourits and Ronaldo Despaigne in a great day.
On Sunday’s game Aris won 3-1 (25-16, 22-25, 25-17, 25-17) over Ethnikos Alexandroupolis. Aris team had use Sirianis Hernandez the second foreign player of the team for the first time in the championship.
The best team of this round was Andrey Zhekov (setter from Olympiakos), Nikos Roumeliotis (the Greek diagonal from Aris), Marko Bojic and Rodrigo Moraes De Campos (outside hitters from PAOK and EAP), Soultanopoulos Dimitrios and Andrej Kravarik (middle blockers from EAPatron and Iraklis) and Marko Samardzic (libero from Aris). The MVP of 5th round was the Brazilian Rodrigo Moraes De Campos from EAPatron who scored 17 point in the derby against Iraklis Thessaloniki’s.