The Champions League had its first match day of the season with the qualification round commencing. However, it wasn’t the most exciting day as five of the six games ended in big wins with the standout game being Rapallo versus Dunaújváros.
Spandau 04 7-18 UVSE Helia-D (1-7, 3-3, 1-4, 2-4)
UVSE Helia-D beat Spandau 04 18-7 to start their campaign off on the high. The Hungarian side scored the first six goals, with five different players on the score sheet, and led 7-1 after the first quarter. That set the tone for the rest of the game. Spandau made it much tighter in the second quarter, matching UVSE 3-3 with two goals from Elena Ludwig, but trailed 10-4 at halftime. Four further goals, from Rebecca Parkes, Eszter Macsai, Tekla Aubeli and Flora Fekete, won the third quarter 4-1 for UVSE and made it 14-5. UVSE took the final quarter 4-2 to complete a comfortable win. Macsai led the scoring with five goals.
Spandau 04: Ludwig 2, Sopiadou 2, G. Deike 1, I. Deike 1, Politze 1.
UVSE Helia-D: Macsai 5, Alaksza 2, Aubeli 2, Horvath 2, Peresztegi-Nagy 2, Baksa 1, Fekete 1, Hetzl 1, Parkes 1, Toth 1.
Dunaújváros 7-8 Rapallo Pallanuoto (1-4, 2-2, 1-0, 3-2)
Rapallo Pallanuoto edged Dunaújváros 8-7 in the Champions League game of the day. Goals from Vukovic, Meijer, Bianconi and Bacelle gave the Italian side a terrific start, and Rybanska’s goal for Dunaújváros made it 4-1 after the first quarter. Kenez opened the second quarter by pulling the gap back to two, but Rapallo scored again and the sides traded goals to finish 2-2, making it 6-3 at halftime. After more than four minutes without a goal in the third, Rybanska’s second made it 6-4, and that was the only goal of the quarter. Roberta Bianconi made it 7-4 early in the fourth. Both teams scored again before Dunaujvaros finished with two unanswered goals to make it 8-7, but no more came and Rapallo held on.
Dunaújváros: Kenez 3, Rybanska 2, Horvath 1, Mihok 1.
Rapallo Pallanuoto: Bianconi 3, Aprea 1, Bacelle 1, Citino 1, Meijer 1, Vukovic 1.
Astralpool CN Sabadell 26-4 GZC Donk (8-0, 4-2, 7-0, 7-2)
Astralpool CN Sabadell crushed GZC Donk 26-4 in front of their home crowd. The Spanish side scored eight goals in the first quarter without conceding, and the second began the same way, with Sabadell scoring the first four goals to lead 12-0. Donk finally scored twice before halftime to make it 12-2. The third quarter resembled the first, as Sabadell ploughed through the Dutch side’s defence for seven unanswered goals. Both teams scored inside the first minute of the fourth. Sabadell then added four more before Semme van Ewijk scored Donk’s fourth goal of the game. Two more for Sabadell completed the comprehensive win.
Astralpool CN Sabadell: Keuning 4, Piralkova 4, Camus 4, Neushul 3, Crespi 3, Van de Kraats 2, Trias 2, Gonzalez 2, Perez 1, Prentice 1.
GZC Donk: Haksteen 1, Vermeulen 1, Van der Linde 1, Van Ewijk 1.
Grand Nancy AC 6-28 Ethnikos OFPF (1-7, 2-8, 2-6, 1-7)
Ethnikos OFPF defeated Grand Nancy 28-6 to . Both sides scored in the opening minute, but that was as good as it got for the French team. Ethnikos went on a 6-0 run and led 7-1 after the first quarter. The pattern continued. Ethnikos won the second quarter 8-2 to lead 15-3 at halftime, took the third 6-2, and won the fourth 7-1 to seal a very comprehensive victory. Cecily Turner and Evdokia Maria Tsimara each scored five for the winners, and Jade Boughrara scored three of Nancy’s six.
Grand Nancy AC: Boughrara 3, Gurcan 1, Heurtaux 1, Pacheco 1.
Ethnikos OFPF: Tsimara 5, Turner 5, Kanetidou 4, Karagianni 4, Beta 3, Mimidi 2, Chatzikyriakaki 1, Christmas 1, Galanopoulou 1, Stavridou 1, Tsiougri 1.
Lille UC 7-25 CN Terrassa (1-6, 3-7, 0-6, 3-6)
CN Terrassa made light work of French team Lille. The Spanish side scored the first six goals of the game, and Lotte Boxsem got Lille on the board only with a second left in the first quarter. Lille did better in the second, which Terrassa won 7-3, but it was 13-4 at halftime. Lille then failed to score in the third quarter, in which Terrassa scored six, with Irene Casado getting three. Terrassa scored six more in the fourth, three of them from Sara Cordovani, while Lille’s last three goals came from Geraldine Mahieu (two) and Myriam Lizotte. Lille scored with only 7 of their 33 shots.
Lille UC: Boxsem 2, Mahieu 2, Baringo 1, Lizotte 1, Naegle 1.
CN Terrassa: Casado 4, Cordovani 4, Fernandez 3, Prats 3, Szegedi 3, Brieno 2, Penalver 2, Williams 2, Cuenda 1, Vilaseca 1.
ANC Glyfada 8-21 Eplus CN Catalunya (1-4, 2-4, 2-7, 3-6)
Marina Pineda and Emmerson Houghton each scored twice in the first quarter for Catalunya, and the Spanish side led 4-1 after the first eight minutes despite Vasiliki Laskaridou scoring a penalty for Glyfada. Catalunya kept control in the second quarter, which they won 4-2 to lead 8-3 at halftime. They pulled clear in the third, which finished 7-2 in their favour, with Houghton, Maria Abarca and Alba Inglavaga among the scorers. Catalunya also won the final quarter 6-3 to complete a comfortable win. Houghton led the scoring with five goals.
ANC Glyfada: Lampatou 2, Laskaridou 2, Oikonomou 2, Lanara 1, Karagianni 1.
Eplus CN Catalunya: Houghton 5, Pedley 3, Pineda 3, Abarca 2, Inglavaga 2, Tarriao 2, Falvey 1, Ferrer 1, Peragon 1, Schuijt 1.
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