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The match without a winner ended 74:74 (20:12, 24:22, 7:18, 23:22).
The team return match will take place in Utena on October 20. This means that the team with at least one point of advantage in Utena will advance to the next stage.
The match went on steadily until the last moment. When it seemed that Juventus had come a long way, the Sūduva-Mantinga snipers spoke up immediately. With 40 seconds remaining, the Marijampolė club reduced their lag to one point (72:73) and had the ball in their hands, but the hosts did not attack.
Soon Marijampolė offended Ignas Vaitkus in a second, hit a free kick (72:74) and there were 4.7 seconds left for the hosts attack.
After a minute of rest, the Sūduvos-Mantinga team managed to shoot two points and Žygimantas Skučas touched the descending ball, as the referees scored two points. The score is 74:74, and the rest of Utena’s team scored without a goal.
Martynas Gecevičius played a solid end of the match. In the last quarter, the Juventus sniper scored two very important triples, added a successful pass and finished his performance with 15 points.
A good performance among the winners was organized by Gintautas Matulis, who last season represented the Mantinga-Sūduva team. The defender scored 11 points.
Juventus were constantly away from opponents during the first half of the match and held a 10-point lead over the long break, but things turned around in the second half of the match.
In the third half, Juventus scored just two points in the first five minutes and scored 7 and lost 7:18.
Before the decisive quarter, Marijampolė had a 51:52 lead.
Rokas Stankevičius, who scored 16 points and added 6 rebounds, was the strongest player in the hosts’ ranks, as was Šarūnas Beniušis, who scored 11 points and bounced 6 balls. They both scored 15 utility points each.
Sūduva-Mantinga: R. Stankevičius 16 (6th ed.), Žygimantas Šimonis 13 (5 errors), Š. Beniušis 11 (sixth chamber), Tautvydas Kliučinykas 10.
„Juventus“: M. Gecevičius 15 (3/6 triples), Bryantas Crawford 12 (6th ed.), Ignas Vaitkus 12 (7th ed.), G. Matulis 11, Julius Jucikas and Žygimantas Skučas 8 each.
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