The women’s European Junior Waterpolo Championships moved today to a new level. Today at the Centro Federale di Ostia was the second day of the championships. In the first game Great Britain defeated Portugal 14-6. Among the Portuguese the 4 goals by the their team leader Reis, who reaches 7 goals after the three goals he had scored on Sunday morning, are to be mentioned. In the second game on schedule Greece defeated Slovakia 16 to 4 : among the Greek team 4 of them were scored by Eleftheria Plevritrou, who reaches 8 goals in the scorers’ classification; among the Slavic team Peckova and Krivdova scored 2 goals each. Later on Serbia and Turkey got into the pool and the Slavs won 8 to 4, at the end of a game that was fought hard till its very end. The first match of the afternoon saw the very narrow victory (8/7) of Russia against Spain, among two of the favorites for the tournament’s final victory : with the Spanish player Forca scoring 3 goals whereas among the Russians Kravchenko was the best scorer, with two goals scored in the second part of the game. Moreover, Holland flatly defeated Hungary (11-7) with 3 goals scored by the Hungarian player Gurisatti and by the Dutch Drewes. Italy easily defeated Ukraine (17-4) , through the astonishing performance of Gragnolati, who stands out among the players of the Setterosa by scoring 13 goals and reaching the top of the goal-scorer classification.



Schedule and results 2^nd day – 8^th September



Portugal-Great Britain 6-14 (1-5, 2-1, 2-3, 1-5)

Scorers: (Portugal) Reis 4, Freire 1, Duarte 1; (Great Britain) Howe 4, Oscroft 3, Tasker 2, Andrew 1, Huck 1, Tafazolli 1, Grimes 1, Patchett 1.

Referees Goncharov (Ukraine) e Fogel (Israel)



Greece-Slovakia 16-4 (4-1, 4-0, 5-1, 3-2) Scorers: (Greece) E. Plevritou 4, I. Charalampidi 2, Chydirioti 2, Kalogeraku 2, S. Charalampidi 2, Sora 1, Xenaki 1, V. Plevritou 1, Eleftheriadou 1; (Slovacchia) Krivdova 2, Peckova 2.

Referees Banos (Spain) e Gerzanick (Russia)



Serbia-Turkey 8-4 (2-2, 2-1, 2-1, 2-0) Scorers: (Serbia) Simic 2, Luka 2, Mladinovic 2, Ilic 1, Rudic 1; (Turchia) Kose 1, Hepgul 1, Elma 1, Esen 1.

Referees Jukes (Great Britain) e Castrilli (Switzerland)



Spain-Russia 7-8 (3-2, 2-5, 1-0, 1-1)

Scorers: (Spain) Forca 3, Crespi 2, Gonzales 1, Ortiz 1; (Russia) Kravchenko 2, Zubikova 1, Borisova 1, Perfileva 1, Trotskaya 1, Kolmakova 1, Serzhantova 1.

Referees Kun (Hungary) e Colombo (Italy)



Holland-Hungary 11-7

Referees Boudramis (Greece) e Rakovic-Krstosic (Serbia)



Italy-Ukraine 17-4 (4-0, 5-0, 5-2, 3-2)

Scorers: (Italy) Gragnolati 4, Marletta 3, Picozzi 2, Galardi 2, Centanni 2, Citino 1, Avegno 1, Morvillo 1, Ioannou 1; (Ukraine) Melnychuk 2, Andrieieva 1, Fedutenko 1.

Referees Kunikova (Slovakia) e Kokaragak (Turkey)





Rankings



Group A

Holland 6, Israel and Hungary 0



Group B

Greece 6, Slovakia and Great Britain 3, Portugal 0



Group C

Russia 6, Spain and Serbia 3 and Turkey 0



Group D

Italy 6, Switzerland and Ukraine 0