With the play-offs approaching, the top eight teams have crystallized in the Dutch league. But at the bottom it’s still very exciting. This season, no less than two teams are relegated directly. And the number 12 has to play promotion/relegation. After last weekend, SVH is the first victim. The team from Rotterdam lost to De Ham on Thursday and can no longer miss the last place. Of the other relegation candidates, PSV did the best business. The team from Eindhoven won against Polar Bears on Saturday.
On Thursday, the curtain fell for SVH. The team seemed to postpone relegation for a while, but Tom Geestman and Floris vant Veer of De Ham gave the Rotterdam team the death blow in the last period: 8-9.
Leader AZC also took action on Thursday. In Ede, Tim van Gulik’s team choked on Polar Bears: 12-8. A few days later, however, the number 2 ZV De Zaan did not manage to get any closer. ZV De Zaan slipped on ZVL-1886: 11-8. Because AZC then won against ZPC Amersfoort (12-16), the gap in the ranking remains eight points in favor of the Alphen team.
PSV was the happiest at the bottom of the ranking on Saturday. The Eindhoven team surprisingly won against Polar Bears (8-11) and saw the other relegation candidates losing their game(s). Waterpolo Den Haag lost to Het Ravijn (8-12) and BZC had no chance twice: on Saturday UZSC was too strong with 9-20 and on Sunday GZC Donk, who also beat De Ham on Saturday (13- 15), was supreme for BZC with a 24-9 score. Due to this results PSV has skipped BZC and The Hague and is now in ‘safe’ eleventh place. Now that there was nothing at stake for SVH anymore, the team suddenly won: 14-13 against ZPB.
Eredivisie Men
Thursday 17 March
SVH – De Ham: 8-9 (0-1, 3-3, 3-3, 2-2).
SVH: Laszlo Balasz Nagy 3, Rudolf Cvanciger 2, Timon de Vries 1, Menno Venema 1, Onbekend 1.
De Ham: Tom Geestman 3, Floris vant Veer 2, Gino de Groot 1, Florian Lukas 1, Kjeld Gravesteijn 1, Hamish Booker 1.
Polar Bears – AZC: 12-8 (4-1, 1-1, 2-3, 5-3).
Polar Bears: Kas te Riele 4, Lars ten Broek 3, Sander Roels 2, Sjord de Kater 1, Jens Wijgers 1, Guus Wolswinkel 1.
AZC: Robin Lindhout 3, Jacoppo Mandolini 2, Lars Reuten 1, Thomas Glansdorp 1, Milos Filipovic 1.
Saturday 19 March
Polar Bears – PSV: 8-11 (3-2, 2-2, 2-2, 1-5).
Polar Bears: Sander Roels 4, Guus Wolswinkel 2, Lars ten Broek 1, Sjors de Kater 1.
PSV: Wessel Brands 3, Melle Evers 2, Levy Kort 2, Mees Schouten 2, Julian van Oorschodt 1, Quint Pijnenburg 1.
Waterpolo Den Haag – Het Ravijn: 8-12 (2-4, 4-3, 0-4, 2-1).
Waterpolo Den Haag: Koen Hieden 4, Coen Berendse 1, Daan Heiden 1, Jeroen Willemsen 1, Fabian van Niekerk 1.
Het Ravijn: Bas ter Brake 3, Yoran Loos 2, Lars Gottemaker 1, Emiel Wouters 1, Thijmen Karel 1, Hugo Wouters 1, Rob Gottemaker 1, Jorrit Aanstoot 1, Jorn Muller 1.
ZVL-1886 – ZV De Zaan: 11-8 (6-3, 2-2, 3-0, 0-3).
ZVL: Stan van Ruiten 3, Jasper Haasnoot 3, Mark Visser 1, Lars van Nobelen 1, Claudio Brancatello 1, Max Reijchard 1, David Voorvelt 1.
ZV De Zaan: Thomas Lucas 3, Pascal Janssen 2, Stan Meijn 1, Mick van den Bree 1, Don Rempt 1.
ZPC Amersfoort – AZC: 12-16 (1-4, 4-3, 3-3, 4-6).
ZPC Amersfoort: Sebastiaan van Mil 4, Jan-Willem Slaghuis 2, Gergely Palotas 2, Milan Borcsok 2, Jort van der Werve 1, Max van der Werve 1.
AZC: Robin Lindhout 5, Tim Reuten 3, Milos Filipovic 2, Jacoppo Mandolini 2, Lars Reuten 2, Thomas Glansdorp 1, Jort Stienstra 1.
SVH – ZPB: 14-13 (2-3, 3-3, 4-2, 4-4).
SVH: Kerem Gemamazoglu 3, Laszlo Balasz Nagy 3, Rudolf CvanCiger 2, Sven Nieuwstraten 2, Menno Venema 1, Tomas Kostelnik 1, Unknown 2.
ZPB: Onno Kuller 3, Jari Krijgsman 3, Maurice Dentro 2, Dominick de Waal 1, Eleftherios Chelioudakis 1, Tom van der Veen 1, Petar Filipovic 1, Michael de Kreek 1.
BZC – UZSC: 9-20 (2-6, 3-6, 2-3, 2-5).
BZC: Filip Kljajevic 3, Dynand Muller 3, Frank Groot Kormelinck 2, Adam Tamas 1.
UZSC: Joep de Jong 5, Gies Wijnhoven 4, Sook Willemsen 3, Jeroen Rouwenhorst 2, Joost van der Burg 2, Flemming Kastrop 2,Tom ten Wolde 1, Hugo de Vrije 1.
De Ham – GZC Donk: 13-15 (2-4, 5-4, 3-4, 3-3).
De Ham: Tom Geestman 3, Floris vant Veer 3, Sven Gravesteijn 2, Reinier van t Veer 1, Vince Plouvier 1, Hamisch Booker 1, Sjoerd Beets 1, Kjeld Gravesteijn 1.
GZC Donk: Stan van den Heuvel 5, Mart van der Weijden 3, Erik Brugué 2, Guus van Yperen 2, Cas Westerwoudt 2, Kjeld Veenhuis 1.
Sunday 20 March
GZC Donk – Schuurman BZC: 24-9 (8-2, 4-2, 7-3, 5-2).
GZC Donk: Guus van Yperen 6, Stan van den Heuvel 5, Cas Westerwoudt 3, Tijs Schouwerwou 3, Erik Brugué 2, Daan Schouwerwou 2, Quint van den Heuvel 1, Jimmy Sjardijn 1, Mart van der Weijden 1.
BZC: Adam Tamas 2, Frank Groot Kormelinck 2, Dynand Muller 1, Joost Kattenbeld 1, Filip Kljajevic 1, Sven Dijkhuis 1, Dorian Lukacs 1.
1 AZC 25-63
2 ZV De Zaan 24-55
3 Het Ravijn 24-54
4 Polar Bears 25-52
5 GZC Donk 24-51
6 UZSC 23-46
7 ZPC Amersfoort 24-45
8 ZVL-1886 24-34
9 ZPB 24-21
10 De Ham 23-17
11 PSV 24-16
12 BZC 22-13
13 Waterpolo Den Haag 24-13
14 SVH 24-7
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