The trophy sought not just metropolitan handlers
Gold – again for Garliators
For the third year in a row, the Cascados-Garliava SM team won the Women’s Handball Champion Cup and Gold Medals for the third year in a row.
In the fifth season, the Vilnius Eglė team won silver, bronze, the biggest surprise and returned Panevėžys « Fight » after a 15 -year break after a 15 -year break.
Martyna Ustilaitė, a spokeswoman for Garliava club, was the most useful (MVP) championship handball player. She competed in Simon Kolosov (« Fight ») and Gabija Pilkauskaitė (« Eglė »).
G. Pilkauskaitė – the third season in a row the most successful player in the league: scored as many as 202 goals. Second place was taken by M. Utilaitė (179 goals), third-Cascados-Garliava SM handler Karolina Varnauskaitė (163 goals).
Evita Žilionytė, Beatričė Ruseckaitė, G. Pilkauskaitė and Rita Rakauskienė (all – « Eglė »), Dominyka Andronik and Singrida Kulikovaitė (both – Vilnius Capital Taurus), S. Kolosova, K. Sparnskaitė.
Kaunas Žalgiris strategist Miglius Astrauskas was recognized as the best coach.
Strategists: M. Astrauskas and JL Villanueva were recognized as the best coaches. / Photo by Handinis.lt
The surprise of the Pasvalys
After a six -year hiatus, the Men’s Champions Cup returned to Klaipeda – the tenth time of the club’s history triumphed Dragūnas.
Vice-champions-handball players of Pasvalys Milk Stars, who eliminated the favorites in the quarter-finals and the semi-finals-Alytus Vars-Stronglas and Kaunas Granite-Kario in the quarter-finals.
The third is the players of Vilnius Light in Vilnius.
The MVP prize was awarded to Dragūnas leader Gytis Šmantauskas. His main competitors were Skirmantas expansion from « Light » and Modestas Starol from Granite-Kari.
In the symbolic team, Oleksius Novikov (« Milk Stars »), Paulius Čėsna, Mykolas Lapiniauskas, Deividas Virbauskas and G. Šmantauskas (all – « Dragūnas »), Martynas Lapinskas (« Vilnius »), Matas Aukštikalnis (« Šviesa ») and M. Šarolis.
Three Lithuanian handball leagues medals for teams of seven cities.
The best coach was elected in the middle of the season at the wheel of Dragūnas and was brought to the championship title of the port city with the Spaniard Jose Luis Villanueva.
Deiva Eidukonis, the leader of the attacks of Varėna « Ula », the most successful player of the championship: over 20 matches, the goalkeepers of the match disarmed 182 times. The second among the snipers is M. Aukštikalnis (160 goals), Simas Butkus (Granitas-Karys, 155 goals).
The success of Šiauliai people
The Lithuanian Men’s Handball First League Championship was won by the Šiauliai team, defeating the Viesulas SC-Dragūnas players in the final four tournament 24:19 and 29:27-Šalčininkai-Socol.
The bronze was won by the guys of the Viesulo SC-Dragoon, who broke Molėtai 24:23 in the Little Finals 24:23.
Aivaras Budrys, a representative of Šiauliai team, won the title of MVP, overtaking Molėtai Cucumber and Andrei Gaidukas from the Sokol Club in the election.
The most successful player of the first league is Artūras Budraitis (Šiauliai), who scored 212 goals. Ernestas Guogis from Pasvalys Milk Stars-2 and Molėtai M. Agurkis shared second and third places.
The symbolic team of the season consisted of Aivaras Šakalys (Zarasai « Ežerietis »), Astijus Urvikis and A. Gaidukas (both « Sokol »), Titas Paulikas (« Viesulo SC/Dragūnas »), Tomas Boguševičius (Kaunas district « Garliava SM »), Rapolas Valadka