Basketball
Politehnica-Galicia from Lviv lost their first match of the season
Lviv’s Politehnica-Galicia lost at home to Prykarpattia-Hoverla from Ivano-Frankivsk in the first match of the season.
The guest team, which was the leader throughout the match, did not allow Lviv to take the lead even once. Key to this match was the second quarter, where Hoverla won with a score of 28:9. Even though the hosts managed to close the gap up to 4 points in the second half, especially in the fourth quarter, the team from Ivano-Frankivsk quickly beat their opponent in double digits and won the match with a score of 2. 82:73.
The maximum advantage of Evgeny Murzin’s wards reached 23 points in this match, while the visiting team made 8 (44%) of 18 three-pointers and 63% of two-pointers. Lviv team scored 21 points after 25 losses to their opponent, but their shooting performance (40% of the attacks in the game) did not allow the hosts to hold on to the victory.
Hoverla took his third win in the fifth game of the season, while Politehnica lost in the opening league game. On November 20 in Lviv, Polytechnic will play a rescheduled match against Stary Lutsk, and on November 29 in the capital, Hoverla will face the Kyiv-Basket.
Super League. regular season
November 16. Lviv, PS Halychyna
Polytechnic-Galicia (Lviv) – Prykarpattya-Hoverla (Ivano-Frankivsk) – 73:82 (17:19, 9:28, 24:17, 23:18)
Polytechnic: Polyulyak 12 + 7 assists + 3 tackles, Tishchenko 8, Fedchuk 7 + 5 assists + 4 rebounds + 4 tackles, Berezhny 4, Kramar 0 – starts, Gorobchenko 22 + 5 tackles + 3 assists – 6 losses, Bartolomeev 11 + 4 rebounds , Kich 5, Stanishevsky 4 + 5 rebounds.
Goverla: Startsev 23 + rebounds – 3 losses, Chugunov 7 + 4 rebounds + 3 assists – 4 losses, Drozdov 6, Timofeychuk 5 – 4 losses, Gumenyuk 2 + 5 rebounds + 2 blocks – starts, Vodolazsky 19 + 2 blocks – shooting – 4 losses, Ozhegov 13+4 rebounds, Lonyuk 6, Gavrilov 1, Avrakhov 0, Stetsyura 0, Lesik 0.
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Source: Sport UA
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