Galil Gilboa recorded a very good road win over Balkan. The leaders of EUROHOLD Balkan League defeated The Greens 77-71 after a great comeback in the last four minutes. With this victory Galil keeps the top position with 10 wins and 4 losses and is now certain of a place at least in the Top 6. Balkan′s chances for the playoff are also good as the team has 7-6 record. It was first defeat for Balkan at home of the season and it stopped the run of four straight wins. 
 
The first quarter was very even with a lot of lead changes and at the start of the second the things didn′t change. At one points Galil made a 10-2 run which gave the visitors an 8-point lead and they kept it at the break.
 
Galil scored the first basket of the second half but then Balkan made a 13-0 run to take the lead. They kept it until the end of the third quarter when the difference was 4 points and with a 5-0 start of the fourth Balkan went up by 9. With seven minutes to go their lead went up to 11 points, and with a little bit more than four to play Marinov scored a triple to make the advantage 8 points. However until the end of the Balkan didn′t score a single point while Galil finished with a 14-0 run which gave them the victory.
 
DeShawn Sims was the top player for the winners with 24 points and 7 rebounds while Kenny Boynton scored 16 points, including the decisive ones at the end.
 
For the hosts Ivan Lilov had 17 points and 6 assists as Noah Dahlman finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds.

FULL STATS FROM THE GAME BC BALKAN - BC GALIL GILBOA
 
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS FROM EUROHOLD BALKAN LEAGUE CURRENT STANDINGS IN EUROHOLD BALKAN LEAGUE

Four important games are awaiting us in EUROHOLD Balkan League this week. The battle for the Top 6 positions is heating up and every single game now is very very important for every team.
 
BC Balkan is hosting BC Galil Gilboa and will try to remain the only unbeaten team at home. However this game will not be played in Botevgrad but in Sofia due to the delayed opening of the new gym. Balkan is on a good run and now the team has very good chance of reaching even the Top 2. This goes through a win over the leaders from Galil Gilboa who will try to keep their top spot. Surely both teams can offer us a great game and Ivan Lilov, Stanimir Marinov and Noah Dahlman from the hosts side and DeShawn Sims, Gerald Robinson and Tony Younger from the visitors are just some of the names that can make a lot of things on the court.
 
 
In Macedonia KK Kumanovo is hosting BC Levski and will try to stop the bad run of six straight defeats. The team had a lot of problems with injuries during the season and now three players are leaving. However they have Uros Lukovic and Ivan Miskovic back as they with Mandic and Vranjes will try hard to defeat Levski. The visitors from Sofia need this game in order to keep pushing for the first two spots. The team signed Brandon Heath two weeks ago and he will made his debut in the competition but Levski is without center Nikolay Varbanov which may create problems under the basket.
 
 
KB Sigal Prishtina is hosting KK Kozuv and just like Levski will look to keep its good position in the standings. The hosts from Prishtina are in a good form and have no other goal than to defeat the last placed Kozuv. The visitors are still without a win for a very long time after a great start. They have eight defeats in a row and even three victories until the end probably will not be enough to reach the Top 6.
 
 
The last game of the week is between KK Teodo and KB Peja. The hosts are on a great run of five straight wins, including one away at Kozuv and one away at Kumanovo last week. Suddenly they are in with a good chance of going to the playoff but this goes through a victory ...

Galil Gilboa recorded a home win which kept the team in 8th position in the standings of Israeli Winner league. The team hosted Bnei Hertzeliyya and took the victory by a score of 71-64. After this result Galil has 9 wins and 13 losses.
 
It was a tough game as at the halftime break Galil was down by 2 points. Then the team made a very good third quarter and took a 6-point advantage which they managed to keep until the end.
 
Gerald Robinson was the top scorer for the win with 20 points. DeShawn Sims had 17 points as 10 apiece added Amit Simchon and Tony Younger (14 rebounds).

KK Kumanovo 2009 is hosting BC Levski tomorrow in a very important game for both teams. 24 hours before the match the head coach of the team - Goran Dimitrijevikj, spoke about it, about his team chances and confirmed that three of his players are leaving the roster:
 
"Yes, I can confirm that three players are leaving us. There was a conflict inside the team - a division between the foreigners and local players. This players are Ivica Dimcevski, Darko Stanimirovikj and Darko Radulovikj.
 
We are thinking about new players, surely there will be some. In then days will start the Superleague in Macedonia, MZT is coming so this is the real start of the championship.
 
We still have chances for Top 6 in EUROHOLD Balkan League. We need one win - over Levski tomorrow or against Kozuv.
 
Levski is the favourite in this match. They have a strong team, they also won the Bulgarian Cup. Here though in front of our full gym we′ll give our best. This is the team that was making the results in the beginning of the season. Dimcevski wasn′t playing and Stanimirovikj and Radulovikj had smaller role.
 
Uros Lukovic will play against Levski, he is ready. We had five defeats in a row playing away games and then we lost also at home. All the teams are strong and for example Balkan was also losing away at the start. At home though we play very good and lost only to Sigal and Teodo, but before that we had defeated Teodo away. We have a chance also to win against Levski and then against Kozuv as well. We′ll fight and my team is very solid."

SCM U Craiova had no problems in defeatin Concordia 111-57 at home in the 22nd round of Romanian league. The hosts had absolutely no trouble and got a big win to keep their 6th position in the league. The team has 13 wins and 8 defeats so far with five games to play.
 
Craiova won all four quarter as after the first the score was 38-19. From then on the team kept building its lead and it reached 54 points at the final buzzer.
 
Travis Bureau had 26 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists in just 20 minutes while 17 points apiece had Petar Babic and James Tyler.