Panathlitikos vs Navarhos Botsis

This post is way overdue, since the game actually took place more than a month ago.
I don't remember too much of the game's details, only that it ended 3-0 for us and that in the last set we were losing close to 6 points and with several consecutive blocks and a few attacks we won.

Panathlitikos vs AS Pera

We won Thursday's game against AS Pera 3-1.
The win though came at a loss: Our middle spider stepped on the outside spiker's foot and twisted its ankle. The outside spiker took its place in the next two sets.

Tarantula I hope you will have recuperated by tomorrow's game and become an iron curtain once more!

Panathlitikos vs AEN Agias Triadas

A 3-1 win took place on Sunday. We played against the weakest team in our league and did win, but we certainly lost one set and almost lost a second.
It seems to me that we are capable of great games but we are also prone to lots of mistakes.
We are currently positioned 6th out of 12.

The game was the first out of 3 we have during this week. The remaining are with two of the better teams in our league.

Panathlitikos vs Eukarpia

We scored our second 3-0 win for this volleyball season. Let's hope we'll be able to keep it up. The match was relatively easy, although at some parts we were making many consecutive mistakes that could have cost us a set or two. Our middles (that includes you Tarantula) performed very well both offensively, a la Power Spikes, and defensively, a la Iron Curtains.

The win puts into 5th place (out of 12) in the league.
FIFTH!
or
Pita Bread!

Panathlitikos vs Aetos

The first official match for the new year ended with a win.
Not only that, it is also our first 3-0 win in an official match since the beginning of the volleyball season.
Our serves have greatly improved. They can now be classified dangerous (of Swinger fame)! Let's hope they'll prove as such during this week's important game.

Panathlitikos vs Epikouros (Again...)

We once again played with Epikouros' youngsters and won 3-1. We lost the first set but the rest were relatively easy.

Panathlitikos vs Epikouros

We had a friendly match with Epikouros' team and won 3-1. Their official team is quite high in Greece's National league, but we played with their younger team. Our team's young players, namely Stratoulis, Nikolakis, Aggelakos and Mitsakos also had their chance to play and gain some experience.

Panathlitikos vs Navarhos Botsis

Big CONGRADS to the team.
We scored an important victory against one of the better teams (Botsis) in our league. We won 3-1 and all players performed very well. I think our block was key: Iron Curtains!!!

We are currently placed in the middle, rank-wise, and there is one more game left till the end of the first round.

P.S. Barbie, you rock!

Panathlitikos vs AS Pera

Our team was involved in yet another cliffhanger match. We played against AS Pera and won 3-2.
We won the first, lost the second, won the third, lost the fourth and finally won the fifth set.
All in all, an enjoyable game.

Most of our games this season end with a tie-break set... The reason was obvious yet always elusive. Things however have changed! I can now proclaim with a fair amount of confidence why we always go to the tie-brake:
We love volleyball too much! We want to play as much as possible even if that means (and it has meant) a possible loss.

I am of course joking. Half-joking...
;)

Panathlitikos vs AEN Agias Triadas (AEN Holy Trinity)

We managed to score an important victory this last Thursday. Not because we were playing a against a good team, but because we hadn't scored a victory for a while; it thus became a moral booster.
We won 3-2. A very unpredictable match...

Panathlitikos vs Aias

The first official match for this year's championship was fortunately a win, 3-1.
The win was against Aias, a team that has been playing in A Regional for several years now, and as such a moral booster. The result was probably unexpected by others as it prompted EPESTH's website to write that newly-illuminated Panathlitikos' win against Aias was singled-out (ξεχώρισε και η νίκη του νεοφώτιστου Παναθλητικού Συκεών επί του Αίαντα με 3-1).

Panathlitikos vs Bergina

The first official match for the year ends with a win for us.
We played against Bergina and won 3-1 in a relatively easy game.

Detailed score:
25-10
21-25
25-15
25-15
We shouldn't have lost that second set but some serves just wouldn't go in.

The game was the first for EPESTH's cup, and the win, along with some drawing luck, already put us into the final 8.

Panathlitikos vs Epikouros

Our second friendly game for the season was a win.
We managed a 3-1 against Epikouros, a team that plays in the A2 National league. That would be 2 levels above us. So how did we manage? We played against Epikouros' young team (adolescents) and not their man's team. The score might have been different then :o)

Panathlitikos vs Makedon Ampelokipon

Yesterday was our last official game for the season.
We beat Makedon 3-0.

Panathlitikos vs Nestor

The team pulled it off once more!
We beat Nestor 3-0 in a swift match.

Only one game remains till the end of the championship which will take place after April the 13th due to recent shocking events.

Panathlitikos vs AO Kavaklioton

We beat AO Kavaklioton yesterday in a swift match, 3-0.

What's interesting about AO Kavaklioton? Their uniforms.
The uniforms spell AOK while their emblem is a Shamrock.
The combination could be a pun on their side... They could be satirizing P.A.O.K and P.A.O, two well established teams in Greece.

Panathlitikos vs Eukarpia

Yes, it's that time of the week again, Thursday, and yet another game finished in favor of Panathlitikos. We beat Eukarpia 3-1.

We are now first with a 4 point difference from the second. Awesome...

Panathlitikos vs Klimakio

We had a friendly match today with Klimakio. We won 4-1.

Klimakio loosely translates into Laddering. Anyway Ladering is the stage just below a National Team. It's the place where they train youths with potential to become part of the National Team in the future. Kind of like scaffolding for the future.

And yes we beat them. We beat a pre-national team. And yes i'm bragging....

Barely legible footnote:
Klimakio consists of children aged 14-16. The mean of their team's ages would be 15.
The mean of our team's ages would be close to 25.
No... it wasn't stealing candy from children!!!

Panathlitikos vs Polygyros (AOP)

We scored an important victory yesterday. The chances that we'll finish first in our league are now very high.

The match was against Polygyros. The result was 3-2 and it progressed like so:
0-1
0-2
1-2
2-2
3-2

Our first-set performance was lousy. There was no movement on our part. Our offense was actually quite passive. Polygyros won the set real easy.
The middle of the second set was our wake-up point and although we did lose it by 2 points we were already warmed up and heading to the right direction. We won the next three sets.

Panathlitikos vs Makedon Ampelokipon

We scored a victory a couple of hours ago.
It was a swift 3-0 game.
Nothing else to report really...