Rilski Sportist surprised Lukoil Academic, Euroins Cherno More won in Yambol
Rilski Sportist
The champions from Lukoil Academic were the only team Rilski Sportist had not defeated in Bulgaria during the last six years. Today came their turn. After 32 straight wins for Lukoil Academic today the players from Samokov managed to win for the joy of all their fans. The result 87-80 is the least they could get because the hosts led in double digits for most of the time.
This loss is third for "the students" this season and now Levski will have the chance to cut the distance with them with a win in Pleven.
With this win Rilski Sportist showed that now this is a team that everybody in Bulgaria should watch out for. The players from Samokov are playing successfully also in the Balkan league where they won their group and are favourite to reach the Final Four.
Five players scored in double digits for the hosts. Ivan Lilov finished with 18 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds.
Travis Peterson and Dragoslav Papic added 16 apiece while Branko Mirkovic added 14. Very good second half had Aleksandar Gruev who scored all his 12 points in a short stretches in the third and fourth quarters.
For Lukoil Academic Willie Deane had 32 points and 10 rebounds and Hristo Nikolov added 16 and 8.
In the next round Rilski Sportist will visit Levski in Sofia but before that the team will travel to Kragujevac to play Radnicki on thursday in the first 1/4 final of Eurohold Balkan League. On the other side Lukoil Academic will have to rest because the team was due to play CSKA who already left the championship.
In the same round in Bulgarian league Euroins Cherno More won away at Yambol by 15 points 89-74.
The start was very strong for the hosts who took a 9-2 lead. The bad news was that Byron Sanders received an injury in thos first minutes that took him out of the game. This proved out to be one of the decisive factors for the loss of the hosts. The visitors managed to tie the score at 16-16 but Yambol closed the first quarter with a 6-0 run for 22-16.
In the first two minutes of the second quarter the hosts increased their advantage to 11 point. Then Corey McIntosh scored three straight three-pointers and the deficit went down to 4. In the next minute Yambol made a 5-0 run but with 1.30 to go in the first half the score was once again tied at 44. However Yambol scored three points and went in to the break leading 47-44.
The hosts started the second half very strong and took a good advantage but then the visitors came right back in to the game and in the 36th minute the score was once again tied, this time at 56 and in the next offense Cherno More took the lead. The visitors kept their lead in this quarter and were ahead by 6 at the end of it.
In the last quarter the players of Yambol were already tired and that helped the visitors in that moments. The difference even went up to 19 but the hosts cut 4 points near the end and the game finished with a win for Euroins Cherno More.
Top scorer for Yambol was Pavel Marinov with 18 as Ivan Marchev scored 16.
Corey McIntosh scored 26 for the visitors while Sheld?n added 19.
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