"Elazig Il Ozel Idare" (Turkey) - BC "Prometey" (Ukraine) - 66:78 (19:18, 17:28, 14:18, 16:14). October 27. EuroCup Women. Group stage. Group "B". 3rd tour. Elazig (Turkey). SC "Elazig Il Ozel Idare ".
"Elazig Il Ozel Idare": Morgan * (16 + 9 rebounds), Pulliam * (13), Razheva * (12), Yalchinkaya * (4), Dabakoglu * (13 + 5 assists), Brich (6), Sonmez ( 2), Yalchin (0).
BC "Prometey": Dubrovina *, captain (10 + 10 assists), Atkins * (17 + 9 rebounds), Holmes * (16 + 14 rebounds), Yurkevichus * (9 + 7 rebounds + 5 steals), Datsko * (8 ), Liubinets (0), Babich (16), Musiienko (2).
The next round in EuroCup Women drew the line under the half of the group tournament. Even after the end of the first two days of the game, "Prometey" was the only team in group "B" with a 100% victory. The final siren after the match in the Turkish city of Elazig with the local team "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" meant the third European Cup success of the team of Victoria Bolshakova.
At the same time, today's victory turned out to be the most difficult for the "red and whites" since the start of the tournament. The debut of the match turned out to be somewhat chaotic. Both opponents in the first ten minutes did not bring to a logical conclusion a large number of attacks. At the same time, the Turkish team suffered 8 losses at once comparing to 4 of Prometey, but this did not prevent it from winning the quarter. Aziz Akaya's team responded to Prometey's handicap of 6 points after the first 5 minutes of the game (9:3) with a wonderful 11:0 jerk, American guard Colby Morgan brought 7 points to her team.
Prometey established its dominance on the court in the second quarter. At the end of twenty minutes of the game, our team significantly outperformed the opponent in the number of throws (41 vs. 27) and this was one of the consequences of 11 rebounds on the opponent’s backboard. Joyner Holmes made a special effort in this component today (only 14 rebounds in the match), but in addition, the American legionnaire in the first quarter was notable for her performance, and in one of the episodes she gave a great pass to Tetiana Yurkevichus. It was in the second ten minutes that Ariel Atkins finally found her game, and Nikolina Babich managed two accurate three-point shots (the first one was in the starting quarter).
It was the second quarter that greatly influenced the next victorious result for Prometey. However, not everything was clear in the last ten minutes. In the 35th minute, "Elazig" managed to reduce their gap to 7 points - 61:68 after their jerk 7: 0. And yet, in general, the game was quite obvious that the class of "Prometey" is higher. And this first of all turned out to be in the final five minutes, at the most necessary moment. First, Atkins hit from afar, then Olga Dubrovina found Babich under the Elyazyga hoop, and when Olga ran away after an excellent pass from Holmes, it meant "+15" in favor of our team and it became quite obvious that his Victoria Bolshakova's team will not lose. The participants of this episode managed to make a double-double in the match: Holmes - 16 points and 14 rebounds, and the captain of our team - 10 points and 10 assists.
"Prometey" with three victories continues to lead in its group, and in second place came the Romanian "Sepsi", which beat "Uni Gyor" at home - 70:65. Today's rival of our team has one victory, the Hungarian club still does not know the joy of success.
