Basketball
Kyiv-Basket inflicts first defeat to BIPA club, Mavpy wins for the first time
Men’s Super League leaders match, Kyiv Basket and BIPAThe bubble of the regular season started in Kiev.
Kyiv-Basket, which started the match evenly, managed to gain +5 advantage with two successful effective attacks after the first quarter. The successful start to the second quarter also showed 23:13 on the scoreboard, while Vadim Pudzirey had to take a time-out. The Kievans held the advantage for a long time, but playing more aggressively in the last two minutes, BIPA made a 11:0 breakthrough from the 23:33 score. After that, Dubonenko returned the advantage to his team and BIPA failed to execute their last attack in the quarter and the teams took a long break in favor of Kyiv-Basket with a score of 35:34.
Kyiv-Basket was leading almost the entire third quarter, but Vladimir Kholopov’s team was unable to gain a 4-point advantage. There was no intrigue in the last quarter, even though BİPA was one or two shots away for a long time, the teams started the last minute of the match for Kyiv-Basket at +8. In conclusion, 76:68.
Kyiv-Basket won the fifth of six games played in the season, surpassing BIPU, who were defeated for the first time this season, to move up to second place. The most productive player of the match was Igor Dubonenko, who played with 22 points and 7 rebounds.
Circassian Mavpi He won his first victory of the new season of the Superleague by winning in the Kyiv bubble Carpathian-Hoverla.
The teams played two different halves. The first was won confidently in the second quarter by Evgeny Murzin’s team, who had a maximum of 12 points in this game. The key, however, was the third ten-minute period, when Cherkasy managed to turn the game around and beat Hoverla. Mavps, who scored 29 points in the third quarter and 22 points in the fourth quarter, won +18 in the second half.
A key role in the Cherkasy squad in this match was played by the duo of newcomer Demetrius Leiko and team leader Sergei Skira. Already in the first game for Cherkasy, the American added 29 points and 12 rebounds, setting a new performance record of the season. Dominating under the shields, Skura had 24 points and 9 rebounds. Sergei Startsev has traditionally led the team to 25 points with 8 rebounds and 5 assists in Hoverla, but despite the efforts of Hoverla’s defender, Cherkasy did not give up on the win.
The Mavps took a strong-willed victory, thanks to a comeback in the second half – the first of the season, winning with a score of 81:70.
On 30 November, BIPA will play with Cherkasy Monkeys and Kyiv-Basket will wrap up the balloon match with Hoverla-Prykarpattya.
Super League. regular season
29 November. Kyiv, DC Veneto
Kyiv Basket – BİPA – 76:68 (18:13, 17:21, 18:16, 23:18)
Kyiv-Basket: Zaplotinsky 15+8 rebounds, Kisilchuk 9+5 rebounds, Dubonenko 22+7 rebounds, Musienko 0, Novikov 11+5 rebounds – start; Koshevatsky 8, Yurchenko 8, Dupin 3, Bazilev 0, Shvets 0
BIPA: Malinovsky 0, Tkachenko 13+9 rebounds, Kabatsyura 5, Ryabchuk 9, Kadygrob 5+5 rebounds – start; Unguryan 18, Shashkov 11, Konev 5, Pestik 2
Cherkasy Mavpy – Prykarpattya-Hoverla – 81:70 (14:20, 16:17, 29:14, 22:19)
Cherkasy Mavpy: Kozha 24+9 rebounds, Kuznetsov 14+5 assists, Poshablya 8+6 rebounds, Nazarenko 3+3 tackles, Lakomov 0 – starts, Lake 29+12 rebounds – 7 losses, Lipovtsev 3+4 assists, Kosenko
Goverla: Startsev 25 + 8 rebounds + 5 assists – 4 losses, Timofeychuk 5, Chugunov 4 + 6 rebounds, Gumenyuk 2, Litvinov 0 – start, Vodolazsky 10 + 6 rebounds + 4 blocks, Lesik 8 + 6 rebounds, Drozdov 5 , Ozhegov 5, Avrakhov 4, Timofeychuk 2, Lonyuk 0 – 4 missing
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Source: Sport UA
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