Feni Industries is the second finalist after a win over Mornar Bar
The game started with a fast offensive plays for both sides, as Jelenic and Ivanovic for Mornar and Darko Sokolov from the hosts scored three-pointers, followed by a lay-up by Feni’s tallest man – Dusan Knezevic. Nikola Ljulic made another three and after a successful fast break from Nikola Jovanovic, Mornar were ahead by 5 points, 5 minutes before the end of the first period. In the next 3 minutes Feni impressed with a 15:3 series and got a solid 7 points lead. Ivan Jelenic scored an incredible 3 pointer in the last second of the quarter, setting the score to 21:19.
At the beginning of the second period Mornar’s best player in EUROHOLD Balkan League this season - Nemanja Radovic opened his scoring stats with lay-up. Feni scored their first basket in the quarter 6:33 minutes before the end – Dime Tasovski made a three-pointer. Mornar managed to tie for 25:25, but Marjan Gjurov, who was out almost whole season with a bad knee injury was perfect behind the line – 28:25. In the remaining minutes, nobody succeed to built a bigger than 5 points lead, as the break comes to 38:36 in favor of Feni. Darko Sokolov has most points for the hosts, scoring 12 in the first two periods. On the opposit side Ivan Jelenic has also 12.
After the half-time the game started with technical fouls for the two coaches – Feni’s Emil Rajkovic and Mornar’s Djordje Pavicevic. In the third quarter Feni continued to have a small lead, as the team from Kavadarci couldn’t go ahead with more than 4 points.On the other side young squad of Mornar tried to stay close to their opponents. In the 25th minute, the Montenegrins even managed to tie the score – 46:46, but the hosts continued with their good efforts in this quarter, making a 7:0 lead for 53:46 three minutes before the end of the period. Mornar gave a fast response, answering with a two successful offensive plays – lay-up by Ivan Jelenic and a basket and a foul from Sarajlija. The former player of Olimpija Ljubljana made a three pointer and tied the score once again in the game. In the next attack Darko Sokolov was fouled by Nemanja Radovic, but made only one free-throw – 55:54. 8 seconds before the whistle for the end of the quarter Slobodan Mihajlovski got injury in his knee and his substitution – Dime Tasovski made two free-throws
for 59:56 after 30 minutes on the court.
Mornar started the decisive period in the best possible way, as in their first attack Djordje Gagic made a dunk and was fouled, but he missed from the free-throw line. Two fast breaks from Darko Sokolov set the score to 63:59 for Feni, and Mornar’s coach Djordje Pavicevic took time-out 7 minutes before the end of the game. After it the euphoria in the gym climbed extremely, as Dime Tasovski scored his second three-pointer in game. Excellent combination between Tasovski and the American forward Jarrid Frye give to Feni the biggest lead in the game – 70:61, 5:45 minutes before the final whistle. In the remaining minutes, the young Montenegrin team from Bar made a lot of attempts to decrease their trail, dropping the difference to only two points – 72:70 with 2 minutes of play. In this period Feni’s players took a lot of stupid decisions and could even lose the game because of that. After a time-out
first Jarrid Frye and then Darko Sokolov set the score to 76:70 in the last minute of the clash. Marjan Gjurov made the most important shot in the tonight’s game 42 seconds to the end, scoring an incredible three-pointer for 79:72. Final score of these hard battle comes to 82:75. In Sunday Feni is going to face Rilski Sportist, team which has been defeated two times in the regular season by the Macedonia champion.
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