Sigal Prishtina holds on for a win in a great derby with Peja
KB Sigal Prishtina won its third game in a row in group D of SIGAL-UNIQA Balkan League. The champions hosted their Kosovo rival KB Peja and took 85-84 victory after an intensed game from start to finish. The hosts led throughout but missed several chance to close it out. At the end Peja also had a chance to win but the visitors missed it. After that result Sigal is first in the group with 3-0 record while Peja, Levski 2014 and Kozuv all have 1-2. Next week Peja will visit Levski in Sofia while Sigal will host Kozuv.
The teams exchanged baskets early before Sigal made a 10-0 run to go up by 7 points. In the first quarter the hosts were on a roll and the lead went to 11 points before being cut to 9 after ten minutes. Peja started well the second period closing the gap to just 3 but Sigal responded quickly and once again increased their advantage to double digits. They led by around 7-8 points almost until the end of the first half but it finished with 4-0 run for Peja which cut their deficit to only 3 points.
The big battle continued after the break with both teams exchanging baskets. After Hajrizi scored a triple the difference was cut to 1 but Berisha answered with one of his own and then Washburn added 2 points. Later the difference went to 9 but Peja managed to again cut it to 5 seconds before the buzzer for the end of the third quarter. However it finished in a great way after Dardan Berisha scored from its own half with the buzzer to give Sigal an 8-point advantage.
Shortly after the fourth period started the lead jumped again to 10 points but Peja answered with 10-0 run to tie the score 6.05 before the buzzer. Then Berisha finally stopped them with a triple and in the next Peja′s offense he stole the ball provoking Davis to foul him and it was called unsportsmanlike. Sigal′s star however made only one free throw but then Warren scored to take the lead to 6 points. Abukar then added one of his own jump shots for 8-0 run in less then two minutes after the visitors tied the score. Still Peja didn′t give up and again cameback in the game closing the gap to just a point but Kemp responded with a triple and Abukar also scored 2 points. Still however the game wasn′t over as with a Nenad Delic triple the visitors again cut the deficit to only 1 with 34 seconds to go. Kemp missed for Sigal in the next offense which gave Peja a chance. The visitors had three attempts in their final attack but couldn′t made a basket and eventually lost.
Mohamed Abukar was the top scorer for the winners with 22 points as he also added 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Dardan Berisha had double double with 21 points and 11 rebounds as Jason Washburn added 14 points.
Alban Veseli was the top performer for the visitors with 22 points and 7 rebounds. Nenad Delic had 21 and 7 while Drilon Hajrizi added 20 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.
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