Domestic leagues: Levski is through to the final after defeating Balkan in a great game 5

Levski qualified for the final in Bulgarian league after defeating Balkan 100-93 away in the decisive fifth game. The visitors overcame a 2-0 deficit in the series to make it through and go the final.    Levski started in phenomenal way the match and scored 40 points in the first quarter, including 17 by Mike Wilkinson. Then Balkan started playing better and they cut the deficit to 6 points in the second but at the break the difference was 10.   A 12-0 run in the third quarter put Balkan up by 5 points and more than 4000 people in the gym exploded. At the end of the first 30 minutes Balkan was up by a point but good minutes at the end for Levski and two triples by Jones and Chalmers sealed off the game.   Jumaine Jones had 29 points and 13 rebounds for the win while Lionel Chalmers added 24 points.   For the home team Pavel Marinov had 37 points while Noah Dahlman added 19 and 11 rebounds. They missed Ivan Lilov and Tencho Tenchev due to injuries and during the game Stanimir Marinov also went out with problems.