I am afraid I only have time for a brief round-up of this week’s remaining results in the Pairs and Promocion Pairs championships.
In the main Pairs Championship at least, matters went entirely to script, with OLAIZOLA II – BEROIZ taking a staggering twelfth consecutive win in beating BENGOETXEA VI – APRAIZ 22-12 in Pamplona on Saturday. The defeated pair slip to sixth but are level on points with the two directly above them. In Tolosa on Monday, BERASALUZE VIII – ALBISU lived up to their recent positive headlines with a 22-9 crushing of bottom pair ARRETXE II – BEGINO. They are now up to second and on recent performances they deserve their billing as the best of the rest.
PAREJA |
JUG. |
GAN. |
PERD. |
Tf |
Tc |
COEF |
|
1 |
OLAIZOLA II – BEROIZ |
12 |
12 |
0 |
264 |
147 |
+117 |
2 |
BERASALUZE VIII – ALBISU |
12 |
7 |
5 |
226 |
192 |
+34 |
3 |
TITIN III – MERINO II |
12 |
7 |
5 |
233 |
216 |
+17 |
4 |
MTZ de IRUJO – BARRIOLA |
12 |
6 |
6 |
227 |
195 |
+32 |
5 |
XALA – LASKURAIN |
12 |
6 |
6 |
217 |
212 |
+5 |
6 |
BENGOETXEA VI – APRAIZ |
12 |
6 |
6 |
206 |
219 |
-13 |
7 |
ARITZ LASA – ZUBIETA |
12 |
3 |
9 |
174 |
239 |
-65 |
8 |
ARRETXE II – BEGINO |
12 |
1 |
11 |
130 |
257 |
-127 |
Things are also very tight in the Promocion Championship. Top pair JAUNARENA – CECILIO put last week’s defeat behind them to surge to a comprehensive 22-7 win over LEMUNO – ARETXABALETA. The second pair, OLAZABAL – LARRINAGA are level on points with Jaunarena – Cecilio following their 22-19 triumph over URRUTIKOETXEA – OTXANDORENA, the latter replacing the still-injured Iza. MENDIZABAL III – LADIS GALARZA kept alive their hopes of a late revival by beating SARALEGI – UNTORIA* 22-19. GORKA – ARRUTI dealt their growing chances a blow, losing 16-22 to TAINTA – IBAI ZABALA*.
|
PAREJA |
JUG. |
GAN. |
PERD. |
Tf |
Tc |
DIF |
1º | JAUNARENA – CECILIO | 10 | 8 | 2 | 207 | 143 | 64 |
2º | OLAZABAL – LARRINAGA | 10 | 8 | 2 | 202 | 156 | 46 |
3º | URRUTIKOETXEA – IZA | 9 | 5 | 4 | 171 | 160 | 11 |
4º | RICO IV – UNTORIA | 10 | 5 | 5 | 190 | 196 | -6 |
5º | GORKA – ARRUTI | 9 | 4 | 5 | 164 | 162 | 2 |
6º | MENDIZABAL III – L.GALARZA | 10 | 4 | 6 | 164 | 199 | -35 |
7º | LEMUNO – ARETXABALETA | 10 | 3 | 7 | 161 | 196 | -35 |
8º | TAINTA – ARGOTE | 10 | 2 | 8 | 156 | 203 | -47 |

Ibai Zabala, fit again after injury, helped Tainta to a win
Photo: mine
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