BC "Prometey" - BC "Chaika-CYSS-Berdyansk" - 81:54 (21:14, 24:13, 24:16, 12:11). October 23. Women's Superleague. 4th paired tour. 1 match. Slobozhanske. SC Slobozhansky. 100 spectators.
Judges: Andriy Tikhonov, Valentin Mironchik, Oleksandr Fedorenko.
BC "Prometey": Yurkevichus * (9 + 7 rebounds + 3 steals), Musiienko * (5 + 3 steals), Datsko * (8), Holmes * (20 + 7 rebounds), Dubrovina *, captain (4 + 6 assists) ), Babich (16 + 5 assists), Balaban (8), Mironenko (3), Horobets (2), Liubinets (6), Ignatchenko (0), Semenchuk (0).
BC "Chaika-CYSS-Berdyansk": Popova *, captain (4 + 7 assists), Desyatnik * (5), Mbaye * (6), Samokhvalova * (16 + 9 rebounds), Day * (11 + 9 rebounds), Tkachenko (4), Gozalova (2), Pashkina (0), Prokopenko (2), Cherkasy (4), Fedorenko (0).
Another paired tour in the Women's Superleague for our "Prometey" took place between two away matches in EuroCup Women, which are divided by exactly one week. Such a tight schedule of games today could not help but affect first of all the wards of Victoria Bolshakova. At the same time the first match of "Prometey" with Berdyansk "Chaika-CYSS-Berdyansk" turned out to be very useful for our team in many aspects, from the point of view of providing rest to leading players (Ariel Atkins), and giving playing time to those basketball players, who clearly need it (Victoria Balaban, Vita Gorobets). However, the main benefit of the confrontation with the Berdyansk club was that the opponent of the "red and whites" turned out to be very unyielding. Enough to say that Yevhen Murzin's team did not concede to the national champion and the sole leader of the current championship in the number of rebounds (42 vs. 43) and scored the same number of points from the "paint" (34). Quite naturally, one of the leaders of the team, Natalie Nicole Day, made a double-double (11 points and 10 rebounds), and Alyona Samokhvalova lacked only one rebound.
At the same time, Alona became the most productive player in her team (16 points), and, for example, her 5 points in a row at the end of the first quarter did not allow "Prometey" to break far ahead in the results of this game segment. Then, however, our team methodically increased its advantage, although it reached a handicap of two dozen points (59:39) only in the 25th minute, when Uliana Datsko scored from behind the arc. The higher class of "Prometey" could be seen, for example, when the champions of the country methodically punished their rivals for mistakes. The "red and whites" had 30 points - more than a third of the total assets - which were scored after the loss of Berdyansk basketball players. However, according to our girls and the coaching staff after the final siren, the team as a whole did not have the best match and all today's performers from "Prometey" are waiting for the improvement of the quality of the game already tomorrow, when at noon time the teams will come put for the rematch.
