Basque pelota blog in english – Dos paredes

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

 

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