Irvine, CA - The LEN Champions League returned to action today with Olympiacos, VK-Jug and Pro Recco kicking off with four games slated for this week. The Euro Cup also returned with the first leg of the final 8 while league play in Hungary and Croatia continued this weekend.
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Results:
Hungary:
Kaposvari 14 Szeged 12
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Croatia:
VK-Jug 19 KPK 5
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Euro Cup:
Szolnok 18 VK Primorac 8
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Champions League:
VK-Jug 8 CC Ortigia 6
Pro Recco 14 Olympiacos 8
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Weekly Schedule:
Champions League:
3/2: Marseille vs Olympiacos at 8:45 AM PT
3/2: Pro Recco vs VK-Jug at 11:15 AM PT
3/3: Marseille vs Pro Recco at 6:15 AM PT
3/3: VK-Jug vs Spandau 04 at 8:45 AM PT
3/3: CC Ortigia vs Olympiacos at 11:15 AM PT
3/4: Marseille vs VK-Jug at 6:15 AM PT
3/4: Olympiacos vs Spandau 04 at 8:45 AM PT
3/4: Pro Recco vs CC Ortigia at 11:15 AM PT
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Euro Cup:
3/6: VK Primorac vs Szolnok
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The LEN Champions League resumed action today as both VK-Jug and Pro Recco emerged victorious. First VK-Jug and
Alex Obert squared off against CC Ortigia from Italy. VK-Jug took control of the game early as they jumped out to a 3-0 lead before CC Ortigia then get on the board as VK-Jug took a 3-1 advantage at the end of the first. CC Ortigia struck first in the second to draw within one but Jug struck late twice as they took a 5-2 lead into halftime. CC Ortigia battled back to open the third as they closed the score to 5-4 but Obert drew an exclusion that led to a power play goal as Jug went back up 6-5. The teams then exchanged goals as VK-Jug took a 7-6 lead at the end of the third. VK-Jug then scored the only goal of the final quarter as they defeated CC Ortigia 8-6.
The final game of the day saw a match between Team USA teammates as Olympiacos with
Max Irving and
Hannes Daube squared off against Pro Recco and
Ben Hallock. Hallock features in the Champions League for Pro Recco and will not be playing in the Italian League because of a limit on foreign players. The first quarter was low scoring as Pro Recco were the only ones to score as they took a 1-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. Pro Recco scored to open the second before Daube fired home a goal to get Olympiacos on the board to make it 2-1. Pro Recco responded though with two goals to go up 4-1 but then Irving got on the board for Olympiacos to make it 4-2. The teams then exchanged goals as Pro Recco took a 5-3 lead into halftime. Pro Recco then jumped out to an 8-3 lead before Olympiacos came storming back to make it 8-6 on another strike from Daube. Pro Recco responded with an 8-2 run as they took down Olympiacos 14-8 despite Daube scoring a third goal late on. To re-watch today's Champions League action and to watch upcoming games live this week
click here. See schedule above for this week's Champions League schedule.
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The LEN Euro Cup also returned to action this weekend as
Ash Molthen and VK Primorac took on heavy favorites Szolnok from Hungary in the first leg of their final eight match up. The game started off close as Szolnok led 4-2 at the end of the first with Molthen scoring a goal. However, it was all Szolnok from there as they went on to win 18-8 despite Molthen leading the way for Primorac with three goals. Next up the teams meet again for the second leg on March 6th.
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Hungarian league action resumed this weekend as Kaposvari and
Kacper Langiewicz returned from a three-week break to face Szeged. After falling behind early 5-3 Kaposvari rallied with a big second and third quarter as they won 14-12 with Langiewicz getting on the score sheet. Check out highlights down below.
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Croatian League action also returned as VK-Jug and
Alex Obert faced off against KPK. It was all Jug from the start in this one as they jumped out to a 7-2 advantage in the first and never looked back as they won 19-5 with Obert notching a goal.Â
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The A1 Ethinki League in Greece has been cleared to resume play starting on March 3rd but no schedule has been released yet.
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