Hajduk Junior and Crvenka score seven each; Sivac win handball memorial tournament

Crvenka’s footballers are the only team from Kula Municipality to have recorded two wins in the first two rounds of the Sombor District League, both in so-called municipal derbies. After beating Mladost from Kruščić 4:0 in their opening match, Crvenka were even more formidable in the second round, beating Rusin 7:1 in Ruski Krstur yesterday. The match was marked by young Filip Faćol, who scored three goals. Hajduk Junior also won 7:1, beating Vojvodina from Tovariševo by that score in front of their home fans. This match also featured a hat-trick, by Hajduk Junior striker Janko Kulić. Mladost drew 2:2 against Budućnost from Mladenovo in Kruščić, and Lipar’s footballers recorded the same result away to Slavija in Pivnice. Kula’s footballers suffered their second defeat: in front of their home fans at the Geder ground, they lost 2:0 to Stari Grad from Bačka Palanka. After two rounds, Crvenka lead the standings with 6 points, Hajduk Junior are third with 4, Lipar are tenth with 2, Mladost are fourteenth with one point, while Kula are fifteenth and Rusin are last, in sixteenth place, without a point. In the next round, another municipal derby is scheduled: leaders Crvenka will meet third-placed Hajduk Junior in Crvenka; Lipar host Stari Grad from Bačka Palanka; Kula travel to Stanišić; Mladost from Kruščić will play Hercegovac in Gajdobra; and Rusin from Ruski Krstur visit Budućnost in Mladenovo.

The twelfth Vlade and Novak Memorial Tournament, held in memory of those who tragically lost their lives, took place in Sivac on Saturday, organized by Handball Club Sivac 69.  Vlado Džuver    and    Novak Stijepovićmembers of the Sivac handball club. In the morning, a delegation from Handball Club Sivac 69 visited the graves of the handball players who lost their lives together with their family members and laid flowers. In the afternoon, a memorial tournament was held on the outdoor handball court at the Sivac primary school, “20 October.” This year's participants were first-division club RK Apatin, MRK Somborelektro from Sombor, the Friends team, made up of veterans of the Sivac handball club and former teammates of the late Vlada and Novak, and first-division club Sivac 69. The teams played two twenty-minute halves. In the first match, Apatin beat Friends 20:13, while in the second, Sivac 69 defeated Somborelektro 24:22, setting up a contest between the two first-division sides, Sivac 69 and Apatin, for the winner's trophy. Before the final, Somborelektro beat Friends 28:21 in the third-place match. In the final, Sivac 69 beat Apatin 27:24 to take first place in the memorial tournament. At a dinner attended by all participants and members of the Džuver and Stijepović families, tournament awards were presented. The Friends team received a certificate of participation, while Somborelektro, in third place, and Apatin, in second, received trophies. The large perpetual trophy, which will adorn the trophy cabinet of Handball Club Sivac 69 for a year, went to the winners. The coaches' jury named Apatin's goalkeeper the best player of the Vlade and Novak Memorial tournament.  Nikola BogojevićAwards for the best were presented by the chair of the Memorial Organizing Committee and president of the Kula Municipal Assembly  Velibor Milojičić  who thanked everyone who helped make the tournament a success, announced that the thirteenth Memorial will be held next year in the newly built sports hall in Sivac, and said that the Sivac handball players will play in the Super B League in 2019, when the club celebrates its 50th anniversary.      

  Đ. Bojanić