Sports Flash

A look at the latest Romanian sporting performances and matches

Florin Orban, 28.09.2023, 13:45

In a match counting towards the fifth leg of the National Women’s
Handball League, Dunărea Brăila secured a 28-27 win at home against Rapid
Bucharest on Wednesday. This has been the third defeat for the Bucharest side, which
are also the vice-champions of the last edition. The most effective player of
the Braila team was Serbian Jelena Zivkovic with 7 goals scored.

Hungarian Dorina Korsos and Romanian Sorina Grozav were the best players
of Rapid, each with six goals scored. CSM Ramnicu Valcea tops the league’s ranking
with 15 points out of 5 games, Dunarea comes third with 10 points and Rapid
comes in the sixth position with 6 points.

On Saturday Rapid will be playing
Hungarian side Ferencvaros in an away game counting towards the Champions
League group B, while Dunarea will be taking on Valur Reykjavik of Iceland in
the European League qualifiers. The Romanians won the first match 30-29.

This week will be seeing a new round of football games counting towards
Romania’s Cup competition. In Group A on Wednesday, Petrolul Ploiesti secured a
2-1 win against third-leaguer Progresul Pecica while in Hunedoara, central
Romania, in a game pitching two second leaguers, Corvinul clinched a 2-0 win
against Chindia Targoviste.

In Sibiu, first-leaguered Hermannstadt and Sepsi ended in a one-all draw
their games. In group C, Otelul Galati obtained a 4-1 win against SCM Zalau and
Dinamo Bucharest ended in a one-all draw their games against FCU Craiova. FCSB clinched
a 2-0 away win against FC Bihor. In group D, on Tuesday, FC Voluntari obtained
a 2-0 win against Farul Constanta. On Wednesday, UTA Arad secured a 2-1 win
against Gloria Buzau while Universitatea Craiova versus CS Tunari ended in a
draw one-all.

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