Waterpolo Brains and Semmelweis OSC finished the group stage of the Elite U15 Cup Sabac 2026 with three wins out of three on Friday, 23 October. Budva BR and hosts Šabac Elixir took second place in their groups, and all eight teams now move on to Saturday’s quarterfinals.
All results and statistics are live on our Elite U15 Cup Sabac 2026 page. Day one is covered in our opening day report.
Round two
Waterpolo Brains 10:4 CSA Steaua
Quarters: 2:0, 4:1, 2:1, 2:2
Brains held Steaua scoreless in the first quarter and went 3:0 up through Sergio Sanchez-Toril, Santiago Mondini and Martin Barrigas. Dacian Mihalachi answered, but Guillermo Servera, Sanchez-Toril and Barrigas, with a power play goal 15 seconds before halftime, made it 6:1. Sanchez-Toril scored twice more in the third quarter for 8:2 and added the last goal two seconds from the end. He finished with 5 goals, and Brains converted 4 of their 5 power play shots.
Semmelweis OSC 9:8 Post SV Nurnberg
Quarters: 2:3, 1:2, 3:1, 3:2
The closest game of the tournament so far went down to the last seconds. Nurnberg led 2:3 after the first quarter, with Jovan Dobric scoring twice, and Moritz Schmitt’s power play goal made it 3:5 at halftime. OSC came back in the third quarter: Gellért Kisari and Áron József Martinkó scored penalties for 5:5 and Kristóf Orlovits put them ahead 6:5, before Oskar Kärgel equalised 22 seconds before the end of the period.
Barnabás Attila Demjén and Dobric traded goals for 7:7, and Demjén put OSC ahead again at 8:7 with 2:03 left. Paul Bäuning levelled on a power play with 26 seconds to go, but Demjén had the last word, scoring the winner four seconds from the end. He finished with 5 goals, Dobric scored 3 for Nurnberg.
Budva BR 10:7 Partizan
Quarters: 2:2, 4:0, 3:2, 1:3
Partizan led twice in the first quarter through Andrija Vranić and Lazar Vukašinović, but Budva won the second quarter 4:0 to lead 6:2 at halftime, with Matija Bulajić scoring twice in that run. Nikola Tomović’s power play goal eight seconds before the end of the third quarter made it 9:4, and Špiro Zenović’s counterattack goal brought 10:5. Partizan scored the last two through Aleksa Maletić and Nikola Vukčević. Bulajić scored 4, Tomović and Zenović 3 each.
Dinamo Tbilisi 13:17 Šabac Elixir
Quarters: 3:4, 4:7, 2:4, 4:2
Dinamo Tbilisi led three times in the first quarter, with Aleksandre Vasadze scoring twice, before Lazar Marković put Šabac ahead 3:4. The hosts then won the second quarter 4:7, and Andrej Popović scored twice in 31 seconds as part of a run from 6:8 to 6:11. Šabac led 8:15 late in the third quarter and 9:17 early in the fourth, before Tbilisi won the last quarter 4:2. Popović scored 5, and Stefan Gajić, Dušan Srdanović and Ognjen Radaković 3 each. Gabriel Khubua scored 3 for Tbilisi, and the two teams combined for 30 exclusions.
Round three
CSA Steaua 9:11 Budva BR
Quarters: 4:3, 1:1, 1:4, 3:3
Mihalachi scored three in a row late in the first quarter to turn 1:3 into 4:3 for Steaua, and Tudor Iriciuc made it 5:3. Tomović pulled one back before halftime, and then Budva took over in the third quarter. Bulajić scored twice and Tomović once in a 0:3 run to 5:7, and Bulajić’s goal two seconds before the end of the period made it 6:8. Bulajić and Tomović pushed the lead to 6:10, Mihalachi and David Dănilă brought Steaua back to 9:11 with 1:43 left, but Budva held on. Bulajić scored 5, Tomović 4 and Mihalachi 5.
Waterpolo Brains 13:9 Partizan
Quarters: 6:3, 2:2, 3:2, 2:2
Partizan came back from 3:1 to 3:3 through Nikola Vukčević and Miloš Koprivica, but Brains scored the last three goals of the first quarter, with Mondini scoring twice in the final minute, for 6:3. Sanchez-Toril and Servera made it 8:3 in the second quarter. Partizan got as close as 8:6 early in the third, before Folco Alonso and two goals from Servera made it 11:6. Servera finished with 5 goals and Sanchez-Toril with 4. Partizan scored 5 power play goals.
Post SV Nurnberg 16:11 Dinamo Tbilisi
Quarters: 3:3, 3:3, 7:2, 3:3
The teams were level at 6:6 at halftime and 7:7 early in the third quarter. Nurnberg then took control of the game: Dobric scored twice for 9:7, and after Nikoloz Khvedeliani’s goal, Nico Khokhobashvili scored three in a row and Ben Sander added one with a second left for 13:8. Dobric finished with 7 goals and Khokhobashvili with 6. Khvedeliani scored 5 for Tbilisi.
Semmelweis OSC 19:7 Šabac Elixir
Quarters: 4:0, 7:2, 2:2, 6:3
OSC decided the game for first place in their group early. They scored the first eight goals of the game, through seven different players, before David Stojićević put Šabac on the board in the second quarter. OSC led 11:2 at halftime. Orlovits and Bence Bacsó scored 3 each, Demjén added 3, and OSC converted 5 power play goals. Popović and Srdanović scored twice each for Šabac.
Group standings
Group A
| Pos | Team | W | L | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterpolo Brains | 3 | 0 | 38:23 |
| 2 | Budva BR | 2 | 1 | 31:31 |
| 3 | CSA Steaua | 1 | 2 | 22:28 |
| 4 | Partizan | 0 | 3 | 23:32 |
Group B
| Pos | Team | W | L | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Semmelweis OSC | 3 | 0 | 45:21 |
| 2 | Šabac Elixir | 2 | 1 | 31:36 |
| 3 | Post SV Nurnberg | 1 | 2 | 28:27 |
| 4 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 0 | 3 | 30:50 |
Leaders after day two
| Category | Leader |
|---|---|
| Goals | Sergio Sanchez-Toril (Waterpolo Brains), Barnabás Attila Demjén (Semmelweis OSC) 13 |
| Saves | Karlo Thiele (Post SV Nurnberg) 24 |
| Assists | Áron József Martinkó (Semmelweis OSC) 5 |
| Balls won | Matija Bulajić (Budva BR) 11 |
| Exclusions drawn | Lazar Ilić (Budva BR) 19 |
Matija Bulajić (Budva BR) follows on 12 goals and Dacian Mihalachi (CSA Steaua) on 11. Sebestény Flórián Andréka (Semmelweis OSC) has 18 saves.
Saturday schedule
| Time | Match |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Šabac Elixir v CSA Steaua (quarterfinal) |
| 10:15 | Budva BR v Post SV Nurnberg (quarterfinal) |
| 11:30 | Waterpolo Brains v Dinamo Tbilisi (quarterfinal) |
| 12:45 | Semmelweis OSC v Partizan (quarterfinal) |
| 17:00 | Classification 5 to 8 |
| 18:15 | Classification 5 to 8 |
| 19:30 | Semifinal |
| 20:45 | Semifinal |
All results and statistics are live on our Elite U15 Cup Sabac 2026 page.
Photos: Lila Bajic
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