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Kozuv beats Feni as both teams go through

Kozuv beats Feni as both teams go through
28-02-2017 | 21:59

KK Kozuv finished in second place in group C of SIGAL UNIQA Balkan League. The Gevgelija team achieved that after downing MKK Feni Industries 70-69 away after a dramatic finish. The visitors led for most of the game but the hosts never gave it and came back for some wild moment at the end. In the final Kozuv managed to win but despite that Feni will also go through to the quarterfinal after having the tiebreaker advantage over Sutjeska.

 

Kozuv got off to a great start and scored the first ten points. Then the visitors continued to have the advantage as it went down to 4. McNeail however answered with a triple just before the end of the first period as Kozuv stayed in front. The visitors were holding on before a 12-0 run put them up by 14. Their advantage stayed in double digits as at the break it was 11.

 

Kozuv′s lead reached 17 points shortly after the middle of the third period but Feni finished it well to close the gap to just 9 before the final ten minutes. The hosts continued fighting and with a 5-0 start cut the deficit even more. Kozuv however managed to hold on to its lead in the next minutes but with two to go it went down to just 2 points. With 1:09 to play Feni cut the gap to 1 and then Mijovic missed for Kozuv. In the next offense Petrovski was fouled and scored twice to give his team its first lead of the game. Immediately Larry Hald put Kozuv back in front but Ceshkovic responded with a lay up on the other side with 23 seconds to play. 12 seconds later Hall scored again for Kozuv and after Feni missed twice in the final offense, the visitors celebrated.

 

Nikola Djurasovic was the top scorer for the winners with 15 points while also grabbing 7 rebounds. Milivoje Mijovic had another double double with 14 points and 13 rebounds as Ivica Dimchevski and Larry Hall had 12 points apiece.

 

Matija Ceshkovic had 16 points for the home side while Jane Petrovski added 13.


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