The pool phase of U18M Qualification ended today, Greece and Romania will play in the final for a place in the European Championship as pools winners.
On today’s program, Turkiye defeated Serbia 3:0 (25:21, 25:17, 25:19) in pool A, while Greece beat North Macedonia (25:15, 25:15, 25:15) in pool B.
Stavros Konstantinos Mouchlias won 18 points for the Greek team, and for the host team, Toshe Efremov was the best with 12. In the second match, the best in Turkish team was Ata Unver with 16, for the Serbian 11 won Vuk Kulpinac.
For 5th place will play Kosovo against Serbia, and for 3rd place will play North Macedonia with Turkiye.
MATCH SCHEDULE:
Sunday, 21st January
Kosovo – Serbia (15h)
North Macedonia – Turkiye (17.30h)
Greece – Romania (20h)
U18W National team of Bulgaria and Türkiye will play for the ticket to EuroVolley.
In the first semifinal match, Bulgaria was better than Serbia 3:0 (25:12, 25:15, 25:19). Top scorer in the winning team was Denitsa Angelova with 13 points, on the other side the best player was Mina Mihajlovic with 9 points.
Place in the final was provided Türkiye also after they celebrated against Kosovo 3:0 (25:12, 25:12, 25:11). Melis Basaran won 9 points in the Turkish team, while in the Kosovo team, Andrea Millais won 6 points.
MATCH SCHEDULE:
Sunday, 21st January
Bulgaria – Türkiye (16h)
After 2nd day of the tournament, successful day had North Macedonia and Romania.
In pool A, host North Macedonia won against Kosovo 3:0 (25:19, 25:18, 25:19). Filip Petrusevski led Macedonian team to win with 11 points, Donat Greguri was the best for Kosovo with 9 points.
After being defeated yesterday, Romania celebrated today with a maximum result against Turkiye 3:0 (25:19, 29:27, 25:16) in pool B. For the victory, Stefan Liviu Catalin was responsible with 18 points. In Turkish team, Ata Unver was the best scorer with 12 points.
MATCH SCHEDULE:
Saturday, 20th January
Turkiye – Serbia (17h)
North Macedonia – Greece (19.30h)
Sunday, 21st January
3rd Pool A – 3rd Pool B – For 5th place (15h)
2nd Pool A – 2nd Pool B – for 3rd place (17.30h)
1st Pool A – 1st Pool B – for 1st place (20h)