Cherno More stayed unbeaten at home
In front of their new sponsor Globul, Euroins Cherno More attained second win in EUROHOLD Balkan League this season against Macedonian champion Rabotnicki 86-76 in Varna. The hosts started the match strongly and took 9-2 lead at the beginning , after three consecutive three-pointers by Eric Webb. Cherno More increased their advance to 21-6, after the fourth triple of the American playmaker.
This action was followed by a series of 11-2 for the guests, but in the last seconds Pavels Veselovs made three successful free-throws for 26-17. However, the guests played better in the second quarter witch ended with a series of 7-2, for 43-38 half-time score, despite that Euroins Cherno More had a 11 points lead in the middle of the period. In those first 20 minutes Eric Webb scored 19 points.
9 consecutive points for Rabotnicki in the beginning of the second half gave
up the team for the first time in the match to be ahead 45-47. Daniel Dimitrov’s side quickly equaled and even led by 5 points, but in the end of the period Rabotnicki also managed to pull with 5 points. After 30th minutes on the court the result was 60-63. Only the first five minutes of the last quarter Eric Webb made three three-pointers, and Cherno More led 79-68. Before the series of Webb, Tihomir Zhelev scored very important shoot behind the three point line, which equalized the score 65-65. In those minutes the guests missed some shoots
from long range, also as fatigue definitely apparent in the team, mainly because team head coach Marin Dokuzovski used only 6 people during the hole game. Both teams played quiet last minutes, while Rabotnicki had no powers to reverse the game. Final score was 86-76 for Euroins Cherno More.
American Eric Webb played a great game and was the key player for the success of his team. Despite its poor third part, which has been preserved and made 0 points, he finished with 31 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds. He noted 8 three-pointers from 12 attempts, but made 5 turnovers. Young gun Alexander Yanev added 15 points, 6 boards and 3 assists. Pavels Veselovs played one of his best matches this season and finished with 11 points and 8 rebounds. For guests Gjorgj Cekovski played consecutive strong game first finishing with 22 points and 9 rebounds, Alexandar Dimitrovski added 17 points (5 threes), while Darko Sokolov nailed 14 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds in the losing effort.
No Games Scheduled |
Delasport Balkan League 2023/2024 Regular Season | |||
1 | KB Sigal Prishtina | 8 - 2 | 18 |
2 | PAYABL EKA AEL | 6 - 4 | 16 |
3 | KB Peja | 6 - 4 | 16 |
4 | KK Lovcen 1947 | 4 - 6 | 14 |
5 | KK Plevlja | 0 - 8 | 8 |