Tag: Gheorgheni

  • Sports Weekend

    In the fifth leg of the Champions League in womens handball on Saturday and Sunday, two Romanian sides will be taking on their French opponents. In group A, Romanian side CSM Bucharest, on their own turf, will be up against the French team Brest Bretagne. Hungarian side Gyor tops the group with 8 points while CSM ranks fourth with 4 points. Sunday will see the second Romanian – French game, when in Group B, Rapid Bucharest will be playing Metz away. The first side in the group is Herning Ikast with 8 points while Rapid is coming sixth with 3 points.



    On Saturday in the second round of the the second preliminary leg of the European Cup, Romanian mens handball side and vicechampions, Minaur Baia Mare, will be playing Ukrainian side Odesa. Minaur won the first match at home 52 – 26. In the same competition, Romanian team Steaua București won their match against Israeli squad Hapoel Ashdod by forfeit, 10-0.



    On Friday in the ice hockey Erste League, Romanian sides Sports Club Miercurea Ciuc, ACSH Gheorgheni and Corona Brașov are playing on their own turf three Hungarian sides.



    Miercurea Ciuc plays UTE, Gheorgheni plays Budapest Akademia, while Corona Braşov takes on DVTK Jegesmedvek.



    On Sunday, Corona Brașov plays Hungarian side Ujpest, Gheorgheni takes on DVTK and Miercurea Ciuc will be up against Budapest Akademia.



    ACSH Gheorgheni comes second in the ranking with 17 points, Corona Brașov comes third with 14 points and Miercurea Ciuc ranks tenth with only 3 points.



    In the 13th leg of the Romanian football Superleague, UTA Arad plays Rapid Bucharest on Friday, while on Saturday, FC Hermannstadt takes on Dinamo Bucharest. Farul Constanta also plays Universitatea Cluj on Saturday.



    On Sunday, Poli Iasi plays FCU Craiova, while Petrolu Ploiesti takes on CSU Craiova. FCSB takes on FC Voluntari on the same day. The leg ends on Monday with Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe versus FC Botoșani and CFR Cluj versus Oțelul Galați. FCSB tops the ranking with 29 points followed by CFR Cluj with 26 points, Rapid Bucharest and CSU Craiova each with 22 points.


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  • Sports weekend

    Sports weekend

    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu
    stopped in the second round of the WTA 1000 in Miami, a competition with 8.8 million
    dollars in prize money. The Romanian tennis player lost to Chinese Qinwen Zheng
    2-6, 6-1, 6-1 on Thursday. Begu’s performance has been rewarded with a check of
    30,885 dollars and 35 WTA points.




    This weekend will be seeing two
    games in the finals of the regional ice-hockey competition Erste Liga in
    Budapest. The games will be pitching Romanian side ACSH Gheorgheni against
    Hungarian side Ferencvaros. The first
    two games were won by the Hungarian side in Romania, 3-2 and 2-1 and the team
    to win the finals is the one which has four victories.




    Romania’s national football side
    on Saturday makes its debut in the preliminaries for the European Championship 2024.
    The Romanians will be playing first the representative of Andorra in the Group
    I of the preliminaries, which also include Switzerland, Israel, Kosovo and
    Belarus. The first two sides in each of the ten preliminary groups will qualify
    and the last three places will be decided in the Nations’ League play-offs in
    March, next year. After the game against Andorra, Romania will be playing the
    representative of Belarus in Bucharest. According to press agencies quoting
    Gracenote surveys, Romania’s national eleven stands 42% chances to qualify for
    the aforementioned competition.




    The Romanian women’s handball
    side Rapid Bucharest will be taking on Krim Ljubljana in a home match of the play-offs
    for the Champions League qualifiers. Krim won the first home match 29-24. If
    they beat Krim, Rapid will advance to the competition’s quarters to play
    Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, winners of the last year’s edition.




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  • Sports weekend

    Sports weekend

    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu
    stopped in the second round of the WTA 1000 in Miami, a competition with 8.8 million
    dollars in prize money. The Romanian tennis player lost to Chinese Qinwen Zheng
    2-6, 6-1, 6-1 on Thursday. Begu’s performance has been rewarded with a check of
    30,885 dollars and 35 WTA points.




    This weekend will be seeing two
    games in the finals of the regional ice-hockey competition Erste Liga in
    Budapest. The games will be pitching Romanian side ACSH Gheorgheni against
    Hungarian side Ferencvaros. The first
    two games were won by the Hungarian side in Romania, 3-2 and 2-1 and the team
    to win the finals is the one which has four victories.




    Romania’s national football side
    on Saturday makes its debut in the preliminaries for the European Championship 2024.
    The Romanians will be playing first the representative of Andorra in the Group
    I of the preliminaries, which also include Switzerland, Israel, Kosovo and
    Belarus. The first two sides in each of the ten preliminary groups will qualify
    and the last three places will be decided in the Nations’ League play-offs in
    March, next year. After the game against Andorra, Romania will be playing the
    representative of Belarus in Bucharest. According to press agencies quoting
    Gracenote surveys, Romania’s national eleven stands 42% chances to qualify for
    the aforementioned competition.




    The Romanian women’s handball
    side Rapid Bucharest will be taking on Krim Ljubljana in a home match of the play-offs
    for the Champions League qualifiers. Krim won the first home match 29-24. If
    they beat Krim, Rapid will advance to the competition’s quarters to play
    Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, winners of the last year’s edition.




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  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    This week we have learnt the
    definitive configuration of the semifinals of the regional competition Erste
    Liga. The latest play-off match took place in Budapest on Monday pitching Ferencváros
    against the Polar Bears of Miskolc. Ferencvaros won the match 2-1 sealing a 4-2
    win on aggregate and advancing to the competition’s semifinals. There they will
    be playing another Hungarian side, Budapest Jégkorong Akadémia, which secured a
    4-0 play-off win against FEHA 19. The other two sides vying for a place in the
    finals come from Romania and they are ACSH Gheorgheni and Corona Braşov. ACSH
    clinched a 4-0 aggregate win against Hungarian side Dunaújváros, while Corona
    outperformed Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc 4-1.




    Out of the three Romanian sides
    in the best-of-seven contest, two have qualified for the semifinals. Sport Club
    Miercurea Ciuc was stopped in its tracks by Corona, after winning the latest
    two editions of the Erste League. In 2021, the side from Harghita secured a 4-2
    aggregate win against Corona Braşov and a year later obtained a 4-1 win against
    Hungarian side Ferencváros.




    Eight sides played in the
    National Championships. Apart from the aforementioned Gheorgheni, Miercurea
    Ciuc and Brasov, the Bucharest sides Steaua and Sportul Studentesc joined the competition
    and so did CSM Galati, Fenestela 68 and Sapientia U23. Although the season isn’t
    over yet, we already know three of the sides directly qualified for the
    play-offs, namely Corona, Steaua and Gheorgheni




    Galati, Fenestela, Miercurea ciuc
    and Sapientia will be vying for the fourth place. Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc is
    the defending champion.




    (bill)

  • RRI Sports Club

    RRI Sports Club

    This week we have learnt the
    definitive configuration of the semifinals of the regional competition Erste
    Liga. The latest play-off match took place in Budapest on Monday pitching Ferencváros
    against the Polar Bears of Miskolc. Ferencvaros won the match 2-1 sealing a 4-2
    win on aggregate and advancing to the competition’s semifinals. There they will
    be playing another Hungarian side, Budapest Jégkorong Akadémia, which secured a
    4-0 play-off win against FEHA 19. The other two sides vying for a place in the
    finals come from Romania and they are ACSH Gheorgheni and Corona Braşov. ACSH
    clinched a 4-0 aggregate win against Hungarian side Dunaújváros, while Corona
    outperformed Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc 4-1.




    Out of the three Romanian sides
    in the best-of-seven contest, two have qualified for the semifinals. Sport Club
    Miercurea Ciuc was stopped in its tracks by Corona, after winning the latest
    two editions of the Erste League. In 2021, the side from Harghita secured a 4-2
    aggregate win against Corona Braşov and a year later obtained a 4-1 win against
    Hungarian side Ferencváros.




    Eight sides played in the
    National Championships. Apart from the aforementioned Gheorgheni, Miercurea
    Ciuc and Brasov, the Bucharest sides Steaua and Sportul Studentesc joined the competition
    and so did CSM Galati, Fenestela 68 and Sapientia U23. Although the season isn’t
    over yet, we already know three of the sides directly qualified for the
    play-offs, namely Corona, Steaua and Gheorgheni




    Galati, Fenestela, Miercurea ciuc
    and Sapientia will be vying for the fourth place. Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc is
    the defending champion.




    (bill)