Basketball
Rovne and Zaporozhye achieve convincing victories over BIPA and Hoverla
On October 20, the next regular season matches in the Ukrainian Men’s Super League started in Lviv.
At the first meeting, the current bronze medalist – Odessa BIPA – examined the newcomer BC “Rivne”. The Odessa team surprised no one and suffered a crushing defeat with a score of 52:86.
With the victory, BC “Rivne” rose to the 2nd place in the Super League rankings with 3 wins and 1 loss.
“Zaporozhye” is in third place. In the second match of the Lviv bubble, he faced Prykarpattya-Hoverla and won 76:59. This was the second win for Valery Plekhanov’s team in their third game of the season.
Super League. regular season
Rivne – BIPA – 86:52 (15:7, 36:6, 19:24, 16:15)
Rivne: Shepelev 13 + 8 rebounds, Vodolazsky 8, Mochalov 7 + 10 rebounds, Shanyuk 9, Timoshchuk 4 + 5 assists + 3 tackles – 5 tackles for loss – start, Soloviev 19 + 8 rebounds, Joyner 11 + 11 assists, Smith 10 + 5 rebound, Ryaboy 3, Gerasimchuk 2, Chizh 0.
BIPA: Campbell 12 + 5 assists – 5 losses, Tkachenko 9 + 4 rebounds, Kadygrob 9 + 5 rebounds, Ryabchuk + 6 tackles, Lewis 4 + 5 rebounds – start, Shashkov 6, Baranov 5, Tovkach 3, Konev 0, Bugorsky 0 .
Prykarpattya-Hoverla – Zaporozhye – 59:76 (17:24, 12:17, 17:17, 13:18)
Prykarpattya-Hoverla: Lesik 11 + 8 rebounds – 5 losses, Chugunov 4, Avrakhov 2, Lonyuk 1, Drozdov 0 – 4 losses – starts; Startsev 18, Kabatsyura 14 + 6 rebounds + 6 assists, Gorobchenko 7, M. Timofyichuk 2, Zhulavsky 0, Muzychenko 0, A. Timofyychuk 0.
Zaporozhye: Buts 15 + 7 rebounds, Sizov 15 + 7 assists, Khokhonik 12 + 6 rebounds + 8 assists, Morozov 11 – 4 losses, Bykov 10 – starts; Pokoenko 7, Lipovtsev 3, Velichko 2, Dmitrenko 1.
Source: Sport UA
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