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جام احمد كومرت تركيه

سه بوكسور ايران در مرحله نيمه نهايي


در جريان سومين روز مسابقات بين المللي جام كومرت تركيه، سه تن از بوكسورهاي ايران راهي دور نيمه نهايي شدند.



در اين رقابت ها كه با حضور 199 بوكسور از 41 كشور جهان برگزار شد، تيم ايران با چهارده نماينده شركت داشت كه از اين تعداد مدال برنز سه تن قطعي شد.

مهدي قرباني، در وزن 81 كيلوگرم با گذشتن از سد نماينده تركيه توانست گام به دور نيمه نهايي بگذارد. او در اين مرحله بايد با حريفي از كوبا مبارزه كند و جواز حضور در فينال را به دست آورد.

سعيد نوروزي، در وزن 64 كيلوگرم بوكسور لهستاني را مغلوب كرد و بر سكوي سوم ايستاد. او در صورت غلبه بر حريف اوكرايني بخت كسب عنوان قهرماني را به دست مي آورد.

محمدرضا قاروني، در وزن 91+ كيلوگرم حريف مصري را برد و مدال برنزش را مسجل كرد. او براي رسيدن به دور آخر بايد از سد بوكسوري از اوكراين بگذرد.

در اين روز همايون اميري در وزن 81 كيلوگرم، هومن كرمي در وزن 60 كيلوگرم و صادق فرجزاده در 48 كيلوگرم با شكست برابر اوكراين، لهستان و هندوستان حذف شدند.

پيش از اين عمران اكبري، سعيد قربان زاده، جواد افروخته، فروتن گل آرا، محمد ستارپور، حسن كاركردي، احسان روزبهاني و جاسم دلاوري نيز از گردونه اين رقابت ها حذف شده بودند.
اين تيم خود را براي پيكارهاي قهرماني آسيا آماده مي كند.

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در جام احمد كومرت تركيه

تيم بوكس ايران ششم شد


تيم بوكس ايران در مسابقات بين*المللي جام احمد كومرت تركيه به مقام ششم رسيد.



در اين رقابت ها كه با حضور 199 بوكسور از 41 كشور در استانبول تركيه جريان دارد، ايران با 15 امتياز به مقام ششم رسيد.

مهدي قرباني، در وزن 81 كيلوگرم، سعيد نوروزي، در وزن 64 كيلوگرم و محمدرضا قاروني، در وزن 91+ كيلوگرم در مرحله نيمه نهايي با شكست برابر بوكسورهاي كوبا و دو حريف اوكرايني به مقام سوم بسنده كردند تا ايران با سه برنز مكان ششم را به خود اختصاص دهد.

تيم هاي كوبا، تركيه، اوكراين، قزاقستان و سوئد نيز به احتمال زياد عناوين اول تا پنجم اين مسابقات را به خود اختصاص خواهند داد.

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بعد از بازگشت از تركيه

تركيب بوكسورهاي اعزامي به مغولستان مشخص شد


در جام احمد كومرت تركيه تركيب تيم ملي بوكس ايران براي اعزام به رقابت هاي آسيايي مغولستان مشخص شد.



به نقل از اكبر احدي، مربي تيم، نفرات اعزامي به مسابقات قهرماني آسيا به شرح زير انتخاب شدند:

صادق فرجزاده در وزن 48 كيلوگرم، جواد افروخته در وزن 54 كيلوگرم، فروتن گل آرا در وزن 57 كيلوگرم، هومن كرمي در وزن 60 كيلوگرم، سعيد نوروزي در وزن 64 كيلوگرم، مرتضي سپهوند در وزن 69 كيلوگرم، محمد ستارپور در وزن 75 كيلوگرم، مهدي قرباني در وزن 81 كيلوگرم، علي مظاهري در وزن 91 كيلوگرم و جاسم دلاوري در وزن 91+ كيلوگرم نفرات برگزيده تيم ملي هستند.

اين نفرات از روز شنبه آينده وارد اردو مي شوند و تا زمان اعزام در مجموعه ورزشي انقلاب به تمرينات لازم مي پردازند.
تيم ملي ايران يازده خرداد ماه راهي مغولستان مي شود.
برخي از نفرات همانند علي مظاهري پيش از اعزام به تركيه انتخاب شده بودند.
تيم ايران در مسابقات تركيه به مقام ششم دست يافت.

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هفته آينده

تيم ملي كيك بوكسينگ به گرجستان مي رود


مسابقات كيك بوكسينگ بين المللي گرجستان 16 تا 21 خردادماه برگزار مي شود.



تيم ملي بانوان ايران كه اردوي جديد خود را از شنبه هفته جاري آغاز كرده است، تا دوازدهم ماه جاري به تمريناتش ادامه مي دهد و بعد از آن راهي گرجستان مي شود.

بانوان ايران براي نخستين بار با حجاب اسلامي در اين ميدان حضور خواهند يافت. كتايون ختايي، فرخ بهگوي، ردا رودسري و با سرپرستي طاهره پشنگ هدايت اين تيم را برعهده دارند.

تيم ايران در استايل فول كنتاكت و لوكيك شركت خواهد داشت.
تيم مردان نيز در اين رقابت ها شركت مي كند.

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مسابقات قهرماني آسيا- مغلوستان

يك پيروزي و يك شكست براي بوكس ايران


روز نخست رقابت*هاي بوكس قهرماني آسيا در مغولستان، با يك شكست و يك پيروزي براي تيم ايران همراه بود.



اين پيكارها با حضور 24 كشور و 144 مشتزن، در شهر اولامباتور برگزار مي*شود.

در وزن 60 گيلوگرم، هومن كرمي از ايران برابر حريفي از مغولستان به برتري دست يافت و به مرحله بعد صعود كرد.

مرتضي سپهوند در 69 كيلوگرم به مصاف حريفي از چين رفت كه با شكست مواجه شد تا از مسابقات حذف شود.
بر اساس قرعه كشي صورت گرفته، بوكسورهاي ايراني بايد به شرح زير با حريفان مواجه شوند:

صادق فرج زاده در 48 كيلوگرم با حريفي از ازبكستان

فروتن گل آرا در 57 كيلوگرم با حريفي از مالزي

سعيد نوروزي در 64 كيلوگرم با حريفي از قرقيزستان

محمد ستارپور در 75 كيلوگرم با حريفي از قطر

مهدي قرباني در 81 كيلوگرم با حريفي از چين

علي مظاهري در 91 كيلوگرم با حريفي از قرقيزستان

جاسم داوري در مثبت 91 كيلوگرم با حريفي از سوريه

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مسابقات قهرماني آسيا- مغولستان

دو پيروزي و يك شكست ديگر براي بوكس ايران


در پايان دومين روز رقابت*هاي بوكس قهرماني آسيا كه در شهر اولان*باتور مغولستان جريان دارد، نمايندگان ايران به دو پيروزي و يك شكست دست يافتند.



در اين پيكارها كه با حضور 24 كشور و 144 مشتزن برگزار مي*شود، مهدي قرباني در 81 كيلوگرم با قبول شكست برابر حريف چيني، از گردونه مسابقات خارج شد تا بعد از مرتضي سهپوند، دومين بوكسور ايراني باشد كه در رقابت هاي آسيايي حذف مي شود.

در روز دوم فروتن گل آرا توانست در 57 كيلوگرم بوكسور مالزيايي را شكست دهد و سعيد نوروزي هم از سد نماينده قرقيزستان گذشت.

سومين روز اين مبارزات با جدال صادق فرجزاده مقابل حريف ازبك در وزن 48 كيلوگرم، جاسم دلاوري در وزن 91+ كيلوگرم با نماينده سوريه و هومن كرمي در وزن 60 كيلوگرم مقابل حريف قرقيز همراه خواهد بود.

كرمي در دور اول موفق شد حريفي از مغولستان را شكست دهد
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Mike Tyson never formally applied for permission from an Arizona court and prosecutors to work Sultan Ibragimov's corner during his WBO heavyweight title fight against Shannon Briggs on Saturday night in New Jersey, an official said.

Tyson is required to get approval to travel outside of Arizona while drug charges stemming from a December arrest are pending.

A spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney said Friday that Tyson never filed any paperwork seeking court permission for the trip. The county prosecutor also must sign off on any out-of-state travel.

Spokesman Mike Anthony said Tyson, however, was never out of compliance with any court orders.

A Tyson lawyer, Thomas Marlowe, would only say "basically, it was miscommunication."

Tyson sent an incomplete application to work as a second in Ibragimov's corner to the New Jersey Athletic Control Board on Tuesday. When New Jersey officials checked with Arizona prosecutors, they were told Tyson didn't have permission to attend the fight, said Nicholas Lembo, counsel for the board.

Tyson has been an unofficial adviser to Ibragimov in the past and attended Ibragimov's Dec. 15, 2005, knockout of Lance Whitaker.

Last Thursday, Tyson was given court permission to travel to Las Vegas to shoot a promotional video and to go to his daughter's graduation in Washington this Friday. Previously, he was only allowed to travel to California for ongoing treatment for substance abuse.

Tyson was arrested last year after leaving a Scottsdale night club. He is facing charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs.

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Former WBC light-flyweight champion Eric Ortiz stopped Colombia's Jonathan Perez in the 11th round Friday night.

Early in the 11th, Ortiz stalked Perez toward a corner and staggered him with a right uppercut and left to the head. Perez remained motionless and seemingly out on his feet when referee Jorge Ortiz stepped in between both fighters and stopped the junior-bantamweight bout 24 seconds into the round.

Ortiz, from Mexico, has won two consecutive bouts since losing his 108-pound title to Brian Viloria in 2005 and also falling in a title fight against Ulises Solis in 2006.

Ortiz (26-6-1, 17 ***) pressured the taller Perez from the opening rounds and was effective at scoring lead lefts to Perez's head. Ortiz also landed overhand rights to his opponents head.

But the bout also featured repeated clinches and warnings from Jorge Ortiz when both fighters landed several shots below the belt.

Ortiz enjoyed a strong seventh round as he landed left hooks and rights to Perez's head. Ortiz maintained the attack throughout the round, keeping Perez on the defensive.

Perez (12-2) recovered with strong eighth and ninth rounds as he landed effectively with rights to Ortiz's head. Late in the ninth, the action intensified with Ortiz and Perez trading combinations to the head at a furious pace.

Ortiz won the WBC 108-pound title with a seventh-round TKO over Jose Antonio Aguirre in March 2005, but was stopped in one round by Viloria in his first defense six months later.

Ortiz and Perez both weighed in at 115 pounds.

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Unbeaten James ***kland won a 10-round unanimous decision Friday night over Ossie Duran in a junior middleweight bout at the Chumash Casino.

***kland, of Austin, Texas, scored a knockdown in the opening seconds of the bout with a right hand behind the ear of Duran. From the third to the eighth, the fight was evenly contested with both fighters winning alternate rounds.

***kland, who came in over at Thursday's weigh-in, wore down Duran, of Providence, R.I., with a body attack and took the last two rounds.

The judges scored the bout 97-92, 97-92 and 95-94.

***kland, who weighed 155 3/4 pounds, is 19-0 with 16 knockouts. Duran, who weighed 153 pounds, is 23-6-1. For not making 155 pounds for the fight, ***kland forfeited $3,000 of his purse.

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The power in the heavyweight division is in Europe, with few if any Americans even in the running for title shots.

After Sultan Ibragimov routed Brooklyn's Shannon Briggs on Saturday night to win the WBO version of the heavyweight four-ring circus, all the belts belong to natives of former Soviet republics. Ibragimov would like to try to unify some of those titles, and his best bet would be to do so back home in Russia, or somewhere else in Europe.

"I am heavyweight champion," he said after consistently beating Briggs to the punch at Boardwalk Hall. "But there are other (championships), too."

Ibragimov, the 2000 Olympic silver medalist, is 19-0-1. He has quickness and a terrific left-hand lead punch. Well, he did against Briggs, at least, as the 35-year-old American nicknamed "The Cannon" barely put up any opposition.

"I have been preparing for six months for this fight," said the 32-year-old Ibragimov, who was supposed to meet Briggs on March 10. That bout was postponed because Briggs, who also suffers from asthma, had pneumonia. "We didn't get to fight the first time in March and I finally got the shot."

And the title.

If he wants to fight in the United States next, the best scenario for Ibragimov is to meet Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine, the IBF champ and generally considered the best of the heavyweight titleholders. Only Klitschko of the other champions has much of a following in the States.

But if they were to meet in Germany, where Klitschko is very popular, or in perhaps Moscow, the fight might attract a nice crowd, if not a lot of pay-per-view TV offers.

Kazakstan's Oleg Maskaev (WBC) and Ruslan Chageav of Uzbekistan (WBA) are the other heavyweight champions.

As for the Americans, Ray Austin, Lamon Brewster, Chris Byrd, Hasim Rahman and Calvin Brock aren't exactly a formidable collection. Brewster, Byrd and Rahman are former champions; Brock won an eight-round decision on the undercard Saturday night, but he already has been stopped by Klitschko.

But any of those Americans would figure to put up a better fight for a title belt than did Briggs, weighing 273 pounds, against Ibragimov (221).

While Briggs deserves credit for getting into the ring for years while struggling to control his asthma, he can't just show up and expect to win. On Saturday, he pawed and postured, rarely throwing anything dangerous. His performance made his win over Sergei Liakhovich last Nov. 4 for the crown look like a fluke -- Briggs scored a last-minute knockout when he was well behind.

Briggs said he was forced to fight Saturday night and he was not completely healthy.

"They threatened me," he said, not identifying who did the threatening. "I really didn't want to fight and they threatened if I pulled out they would sue me and they would have stripped me."

Briggs earned $1.8 million in what could be his last big payday. For Ibragimov, who got $600,000, much bigger purses are ahead -- even if they come overseas.

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Sultan Ibragimov, Russia, outpointed Shannon Briggs Brooklyn, N.Y., 12, for the WBO title; Shamone Alvarez, Atlantic City, N.J., outpointed Jose Luis Cruz, Santa Ana, Calif., 12, for the WBO-NABO welterweight titles

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Steeped in boxing history stretching back more than a century and encompassing the eras of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, it has always taken a special kind of fighter to sell out Madison Square Garden.

Among today's generation of largely anonymous champions, boasting claims to world titles which are often tenuous at best, those sorts of top of the bill attractions can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

One of them is Miguel Cotto, the hard-punching, 26-year-old Puerto Rican who will defend his WBA welterweight title this Saturday in an eagerly-awaited pay-per-view match-up against former champion Zab Judah.

Judah may be a brash and popular figure from just the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge, but there is little disputing Cotto is the attraction, to the point where the Garden's mezzanine level will be opened for the first time for a fight since 2001. Promoter Bob Arum and Garden officials made the decision after the initial 16,000 available tickets threatened to sell out quickly.

"Miguel Cotto has developed a tremendous following because he is a no-nonsense fighter," said Arum. "For those who have been around as long as I have, Madison Square Garden is the capital of boxing. The legendary fights that have been fought here and in its predecessor, are embedded in the history of our country and of sports."

Undefeated in 29 professional fights, Cotto is increasingly emerging as a worthy successor to the headliners who have gone before, and has underlined his status as a phenomenal 147-pound fighter despite initial fears about his size.

Having made six successful defenses of his World Boxing Organization light-welterweight title, Cotto moved up to dispatch the previous undefeated Carlos Quintana after five rounds of relentlessly accurate boxing in December.

In March, he dispatched the tough Turk, Oktay Urkal, via 11th round stoppage in front of a sold-out arena in San Juan.

Cotto is big news back home where the fans covet another in a proud line of Puerto Rican boxing legends.

"I've always dreamed of being one of the greatest champions from Puerto Rico, like Wilfred Benitez and Felix Trinidad" said Cotto, who has improved his English enough to conduct interviews without a translator. "I am on my way."

Cotto faces his most difficult challenge in the fast-footed, sharp-punching Judah, a former undisputed champion who has the added incentive of needing a win to maintain his marketability.

Judah has failed to win any of his last three fights, although points defeats to Floyd Mayweather and Carlos Baldomir are hardly career-threatening. Nor was a one-round no-contest against journeyman Ruben Galvan due to cuts.

But Judah does still need to prove he can wrap a major belt back around his waist, and he could hardly impress more than if he dethroned Cotto.

"Cotto has never faced anyone with my fast hands or my pretty face," Judah warned.

Cotto, however, has come through enough significant tests to know what it takes. He was badly rocked on his way to beating DeMarcus Corley, and had to climb off the floor to stop Ricardo Torres.

Yet Cotto's struggles to make the 140-pound limit were well documented. He had little option to move up, raising fears for his chin and, standing at 5-7, his overall effectiveness against naturally bigger opponents.

But unlike prospective rival Ricky Hatton, who returned to 140 pounds after an ill-advised scrape home against slippery Luis Collazo at welterweight, Cotto has flourished with his new freedom on the scales.

Cotto has been hard at work in his homeland preparing to do justice to another night in the spotlight.

"I have had the best training camp I have ever had in my life and I am going to destroy Zab Judah," Cotto said. "Judah talks too much. He may be a great fighter but he is not the best fighter and I will teach him that difference when we meet in the ring. I promise I will be more focused and show all my power.

"I feel really good and I hope Zab did the same things in his camp to make it a real show with real fighters. That is the only thing the fans want to see. And that is what Miguel Cotto is going to bring to the world."

British fans can watch Cotto versus Judah on Setanta Sports for $20 (Sky) or $15 (Freeview). The price represents a one month subscription charge, covering Ricky Hatton's fight on June 23, plus two additional months for free.

Sultan Ibragimov did not look like a man who had just claimed a portion of the so-called richest prize in sport when his arm was raised in victory over Shannon Briggs in Atlantic City.

Ibragimov had just outpointed Briggs to wrest his WBO title in one of the worst heavyweight fights, even in these fractured times. But the glum-faced Russian is unlikely to bring much charisma to his reign.

"I'm happy that I won, but I am not happy that I didn't knock him out," huffed Ibragimov.

Asked about future plans, he exclusively revealed, "I just want to go to sleep and wake up as world heavyweight champion."

Peter Manfredo is wasting no time attempting to get his career back on track following his comprehensive third round defeat to WBO super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe in April.

Having already rebounded with a ninth round win over Ted Muller the following month, Manfredo is now preparing to face David Banks at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut on June 20.

"These are the steps I have to take to become a world champion," Manfredo said. "When you don't get a chance to fight, or lose, you have to start all over again to get back there. It's not like the Red Sox losing a game then playing the next night."

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Olympic flyweight Rau'shee Warren's ring minutes at the U.S. boxing championships have been brief, but oh so brilliant.

The defending champion in the 112-pound class and the tournament's marquee attraction, Warren had to wait an extra day just to get into the ring.

When he did, he made quick work of his opponent, Hawaiian Bruno Escalante, whose coach called things off early in the third round Wednesday with his outclassed fighter trailing 20-3.

Warren, a 21-year-old from Cincinnati known for his amazing quickness, wasn't bothered by the early end to his first bout of these championships.

"It made me feel like I put in a better performance and I worked hard," Warren said.

Warren had to wait an extra day to fight because Escalante was forced to re-box Vincent Montoya on Tuesday after officials granted Montoya's appeal of his loss Monday night.

With his bracket pushed back a day, Warren will also have to fight Thursday, which was supposed to be a day of rest before Friday night's title fights.

"It doesn't bother me. The results are going to be the same, I'm going to win," declared Warren, who is trying to become the first American boxer to fight at two Olympic Games since Davey Lee Armstrong in 1972 and '76.

All four 112-pound semifinalists will fight Thursday in a two-card session while the finalists in the other 10 weight classes take the day off.

Warren faces Timothy Ibarra of Brighton, Colo. The other match pits Aaron Alafa of Visalia, Calif., and John Franklin of Fort Carson, Colo.

At 17, Warren was the youngest American athlete at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he lost his initial fight. Instead of turning pro afterward, he decided to make a run at Beijing in 2008. U.S. national coaching director Dan Campbell credits Warren's decision with helping keep more young boxers in the amateur ranks longer.

The Olympic trials are in August at a site yet to be determined.

The top eight boxers in each of 11 weight classes here have qualified for those trials. That made it easier for three defending national champions to bow out of their bouts Wednesday, losing in walkovers.

Gary Russell Jr. of Capitol Heights, Md., couldn't compete in the 119-pound bout with Ronny Rios of Santa Ana, Calif., because of an injured right hand. Demetrius Andrade of Providence, R.I., was hospitalized with strep throat and couldn't fight the Army's 152-pounder, Mahlon Kerwick.

And heavyweight Adam Willett of Bellport, N.Y., was sidelined by a shoulder injury, so Golden Gloves champion Deontay Wilder of Tuscaloosa, Ala., advanced instead.

"You've got to play it safe," Russell said. "You've got to look farther down the road. You've got to do what you've got to do to maintain your health for the big dance, for the dance that counts."

Another reigning champ was beaten Wednesday. Danny Garcia of Philadelphia, who moved up from 132 pounds and was the favorite at 141 after Karl Dargan's stunning loss in the preliminaries, lost 14-13 to Golden Gloves champ Brad Solomon.

"One point, man!" Garcia said, shaking his head. "I thought I had it."

Solomon, who led by a point heading into the fourth round, said he knew the fight was his, however, "because he was pressing, and I told myself just keep the punches going and he ran into a few of them."

Garcia's loss left just two champions set to defend their titles Friday night, with Warren hoping to join them: 32-year-old light heavyweight Christopher Downs of Fort Carson beat Siju Shabazz of Las Cruces, N.M., 33-13, and Luis Yanez of Duncanville, Texas, defeated Diego Hurtado of Reno, Nev., 14-8, in the 106-pound class.

"My home is inside the ring," Yanez said. "Nobody comes into my house to steal my TV."

Super-heavyweight Mike Wilson, who would be a three-time defending champ if not for a positive marijuana test resulting in his 2006 title being stripped, beat Fort Carson 250-pounder William Moore 25-16.

Although USA Boxing won't recognize it, Wilson is hoping to become the first American at any weight to win four straight national championship fights.

In the day's most exhilarating bout, middleweight Fernando Guerrero of Salisbury, Md., used a furious fourth-round rally to turn a two-point deficit into a 12-9 win over Jonathan Nelson of Little Rock, Ark.

Guerrero will fight Shawn Porter of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, whom he's beaten three times before, for the 165-pound title Friday night at the Antlers Hilton Hotel.

In the women's title rounds Wednesday night, Cheryl Houlihan of Norton, Mass., won an unprecedented fifth straight national title, defeating Sky Bell of Moclips, Wash., 29-6 in the 110-pound match and Sacred Downing of Trenton, N.J., won her fourth straight 119-pound title, beating Houston's Johanna Mendez 18-9.

The women are hoping theirs becomes an Olympic sport by the 2012 London Games.

"Competition's come a long way," Houlihan said, "but we've got to go out and prove ourselves in tournaments like this."

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ليگ باشگاه*هاي ايران

بوكسورهاي دانشگاه آزاد صعود كردند


تيم دانشگاه آزاد اسلامي با گذشتن از سد ايران خودرو گام به دور نيمه نهايي ليگ باشگاه هاي ايران گذاشت.



دانشگاه آزاد با نتيجه 9 بر دو توانست ميزبان خود ايران خودرو را شكست دهد و به همراه تيم ساپكو راهي دور بعد شود.

اين رقابت ها جمعه هفته جاري در گروه دوم پيگيري مي*شود تا حريفان تيم*هاي برتر گروه اول در مرحله نيمه نهايي مشخص شوند.

بر اين اساس، تربيت بدني خراسان ميزبان پونه گيلان خواهد بود و مرواريد خزر در نور از راه*آهن پذيرايي مي*كند.
در اين گروه بخت پونه گيلان و مرواريد خزر براي صعود به مرحله نيمه نهايي بيشتر است.