Today’s sports programme begins
with good news from ice hockey as Romanian side ACSH Gheorgheni has secured a
first by winning the regional competition Erste League. The Romanians secured a
4-3 aggregate win against the Hungarian side Ferencvaros Budapesta. ACSH won the
decisive home game 2-1 on Friday. Hungarian player Peter Vincze put the hosts
on the lead, then British Oliver Betteridge leveled the scoring for the
visitors. Finnish player Matias Petteri Haaranen, who has enjoyed Romanian
citizenship since last summer eventually sealed the points. This has been the
fifth title won by a Romanian side after Hockey Club Csíkszereda, in 2009, and Sport
Club Miercurea Ciuc, în 2011, 2021 and 2022. Miercurea Ciuc has lost three
finals and Corona Braşov two.
Romanian tennis player Sorana
Cîrstea has jumped up 33 places in the world ranking after the excellent show
she put in Miami. In the aforementioned WTA 1000 tournament with 8.8 million
dollars in prize money, Cîrstea made it to the semifinals, where she was
outperformed by the Czech Petra Kvitova 7-5, 6-4. Cîrstea won the first set 5-2
then she lost five games in a row. In the second round the difference was made
by a break, Kvitova won in the first game. The Romanian won a check of more
than 352 thousand dollars and 390 WTA points, which placed her on the 41st
position in the women’s professional ranking. Kvitova eventually won the Miami tournament
finals after a 7-6, 6-2 against Elena Rybakina of Kazahstan.
Romanian gymnast Gabriela Vănoagă became silver medalist in the beam finals of
the Artistic Gymnastics Junior World Championships in Antalya, Turkey. Hanyue
Yu of China won gold and Cristella Brunetti-Burns of Canada got bronze. This
has been the only medals athletes from Romania won in Antalya.
In the Romanian Football
Superleague Farul Constanţa tops the table two points ahead of runner up CFR
Cluj. In the second leg on Saturday, Farul ended in a one-all draw their match
against Rapid Bucharest. With the same score ended the game which on Sunday pitched
Universitatea against CFR Cluj.
On Friday Petrolul Ploieşti clinched
a 1-0 away win against FC U Craiova while on Saturday, UTA obtained a 2-0 home
win against Universitatea Cluj. In Sibiu, local side Hermannstadt and FC Botoşani
ended their game one-all. On Sunday, FC Voluntari clinched a 2-0 in their game
against FC Argeş in Piteşti.
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