After
eight match days the final ranking of the positions 9-20 at the IV Women’s
Youth World Championship in Doha is completed. Angola (against Kazakhstan) and
Czech Republic (against Croatia) won the final placement matches for the
rankings 13-16 in Bar on Friday evening.
On
Saturday the semifinals Romania vs. Denmark (18:15 hrs local time) and Russia
vs. Norway (20:30 hrs local time) are in the spotlight. Before the placement
round 5-8 starts with the encounters Japan vs. Hungary (13:45) and France vs.
Sweden (16:00).
All
matches are live-streamed free of charge on www.laola1.tv.
Placement
round 13-16:
13/14:
Croatia vs. Czech Republic 23:26 (11:14)
With
a bigger will to win, more passion in attack an their goalkeeper Petra
Kudiackova the Czech Republic took their second victory in this competition and
finally ranks 13th ahead of the Croatians, who lacked power and
efficiency for a long period in their final encounter in Montenegro. Only in
the final stages, the Croats were on a highflyer, but their race for the
victory started too late. The match was imprinted by powerful and tough defence
actions on both sides. The Croats caused too many technical mistakes in attack
to endanger the Czechs before the break, while on the other hand it was hard
for them to pass through the strong defence wall of the Balkan team. But
when the Czechs had the chance for their counter-attack they were highly
efficient and well-deserved led 14:11 at the break. The second half
remained leveled, but the Czechs were clever enough to stay in lead and even
extended the margin to four goals for the first time at 24:20 eight minutes
before the end, before the late catch-up chase of their opponent started. When
Czech goalkeeper Petra Kudiackova saved a penalty shot of Nikolina Tvoric at
the score of 24:23 and Katarina Pavlovic missed another penalty only 30 seconds
later, Croatia took their final time-out two minutes before the end. And
Kudiackova became the power of tower in her team, which ran out power in the
final stages and was short in players most of the time. 13 seconds before
the end Tereza Pokorna secured the victory scoring the final result by a
penalty. Top scorers were Silvija Masnic with six goals for Croatia and Pokorna
and Trumpesova with five goals each for the Czechs.
15/16:
Kazakhstan vs. Angola 30:35 (14:19)
Antonia
Santos (5), Tschesa Pemba and Voneiti Domingos (each 8) scored 21 of 35 Angolan
goals to defeat Kazakhstan in this intercontinental encounter. But none of this
trio could reach the overall top scorer of the tournament. Irina Alexandrova
stroke 11 times to finish as unreached number one of the scorer list with 62
goals. But like in all Kazakh matches before, Alexandrova was not enough to
win. With only seven field players there was no chance to recover. And Angola
took the profit from this situation. Until the intermediate score of 12:11 for
the African champions the result was leveled then they extended the margin to
five goals at the break. In contrast to previous matches Kazakhstan was able to
stand the pressure and were close to turn the game at 26:27 in minute 51 – but
this was there last sign of life. Finally Domingos decided the placement match
with three strikes in the final stages.
Today’s
previous placement matches:
9/10:
Netherlands – Korea 32:33 (19:20)
11/12:
Montenegro – Brazil 29:28 (11:21, 26:26) after penalty shoot-out
17/18:
DR Congo vs. Uruguay 26:32 (13:16)
19/20:
Paraguay vs. Portugal 16:26 (6:12)
Final
ranking 9-20:
9.
Korea
10.
Netherlands
11.
Montenegro
12.
Brazil
13.
Czech Republic
14.
Croatia
15.
Angola
16.
Kazakhstan
17.
Uruguay
18.
DR Congo
19.
Portugal
20. Paraguay