RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko ended regular part of the season at SEHA GAZPROM League with a win over HC Tatran Presov 39:30 (16:13). Even only three days passed since their outstanding finish in big victory over Vive Tauron Kielce, Slovenian champions showed once again fantastic performance at “Zlatorog” hall providing impression of a real “handball machine” to their fans.
The Slovakian champions were better at the start, Jankovic netted for 7:6 in 14th minute, which was the last advantage of visitors, afterwards team coached by Branko Tamse overtook the show. The first star of the night was a goalkeeper Urban Lejsak with 23 saves in total, while the best player in win over Kielce, Borut Mackovsek, repeated TOP class performance against Tatran with seven goals (100%).
Four of his goals put RK Celje Pivovarna Lasko eight goals ahead (24:16) in 38th minute, when became obvious that Tatran Presov have no power to make match more interesting even they had best scorer of the night in Oliver Rabek (10 goals).
The Slovenian best team ended SEHA GAZPROM league regular season with 33 points (11 wins and 7 defeats), currently on third place, but still depends of the last results of RK PPD Zagreb and Meshkov Brest in the race for SEHA Gazprom Final 4.
Tatran Presov are in series of tough away challenges. The next two are in Velenje and Veszprem.
STANDINGS:
| 1. | Vardar | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 566 : 483 | 44 |
| 2. | Veszprem | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 489 : 430 | 41 |
| 3. | Celje Piv. Laško | 18 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 561 : 545 | 33 |
| 4. | PPD Zagreb | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 421 : 385 | 31 |
| 5. | Meshkov Brest | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 484 : 441 | 29 |
| 6. | Metalurg | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 407 : 421 | 16 |
| 7. | Nexe | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 443 : 476 | 15 |
| 8. | Gorenje Velenje | 15 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 401 : 432 | 12 |
| 9. | Tatran Prešov | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 392 : 461 | 10 |
| 10. | Izviđač CO | 15 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 420 : 510 | 3 |
