Sutjeska finished on a high its first season in BIBL

KK Sutjeska left a good final impression at the end of its debuting season in EUROHOLD Balkan League. In a final match of group D the team from Niksic hosted KK Kozuv and won 74-66. It was clear before the match that the hosts will finish fourth in the group and they had no chance of qualifying due the having worse record than Rilski Sportist in the matches between the teams and that Kozuv is first and is going to the semifinal because of the better record against Sigal Prishtina. However despite that both teams fought hard for the win but at the end Sutjeska managed to hold on to it and finish on a high the season in the competition.

Kozuv started a bit better and took an early 9-2 lead but soon Sutjeska was back in the game and tied it.  The visitors however continued to have the advantage right before the end of the first quarter but the home side once again tied the score right at the buzzer. Kozuv led in the first minutes of the second quarter but Sutjeska made an 8-0 run to go up by 6 points. The advantage went to 7 as well but befor the break the visitors cut it to 4 points.

The second half stared with a 13-2 run for the hosts as they went up by 15 points. Later the difference was 17 but Kozuv answered with 12-1 to come back in the game as before the last ten minutes the gap was only 6 points. In the final quarter the home team kept the advantage as it didn′t go down below 6 and at the end the victory was for them.

Sutjeska made 6 triples compared to only 2 for the visitors which proved to be a difference.

Radosav Spasojevic had 21 points and 4 rebounds for the home side as Nikola Pavlicevic added 17 points.

For the visitors Filip Sepa finished with 14 points while Drasko Albijanic had 12 and 5 rebounds.

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FULL STATS FROM THE GAME KK SUTJESKA - KK KOZUV