The latest from ice hockey, rugby and women's tennis
We begin with news from ice hockey. In the ice hockey Erste Liga regional competition, Miercurea Ciuc grabbed a 8-3 win against Hungarian opponents Titanok, this past Thursday in Gyor. Scoring for Miercurea Ciuc were Andrey Taratukhin, with a hattrick, John Anthony Combs, who scored twice, then Tamas Laday, Tihamer Becze and Mathieu Tousignant scored one goal each. Another Romanian team in Erste Liga, Corona Brasov sustained a 5-4 defeat by Dunaujvarosi Acelbikak. Scoring for Corona were Carlo Finucci, who scored twice, while Pavlo Borisenko and Cody Carlson scored one goal each. In another Erste Liga fixture, Ferencvaros Budapest defeated CS Gheorgheni HC, 3-nil. Ferencvaros, are at the top of the table, with 46 points. DEAC Debrecen is the runner-up team with 45. Both teams have played a similar number of games, 23.
In news from rugby, Romania's pool of regulars as of January 10 begins their training session nearby Bucharest, in Izvorani, ahead of the national team's match against Belgium, to be played on February 7, 2021; the pending fixture is part of the 2020 edition of the Rugby Union Championship. 37 rugby players were call for in the training session in Izvorani; all of them are signed up by domestic championship teams. The match against Belgium will be venued by the Ion Oblemenco stadium in the southern Romanian city of Craiova. According to the Romanian Rugby Federation, the match will be played in an empty stadium. In the Rugby Europe Championship as-it-stands table, Belgium and Romania are at the bottom of the table, in descending order. If it still remains on the bottom position, Romania will have a playoff fixture against the Netherlands on February 20 or 21st. The match is crucial for Romania to retain its place in Tier 2 of European rugby.
The 2021 season of the Rugby European Championship marks the qualifiers' kick-start ahead of the 2023 edition of the World Cup.
In women's tennis, the first important tournament in 2021 is underway in Abu Dhabi; the event has 563, 530 USD up for grabs. At the moment, all Romanian women tennis players have been eliminated from the competition. In the qualifiers' last round, Irina Fetecau was defeated by Italy's Lucrezia Stefanini, 1-6, 6-2, 7-6. Sorana Cirstea was scheduled to play in the first round, but she pulled out of competition because of an abdominal injury.
(Translation by Eugen Nasta)
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