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This victory is very important for the residents of Klaipeda, because they managed to break the streak of five consecutive losses. Even some of those defeats were extremely painful: Utena’s “Juventus” was 58:98, even 68:99 was lost to “Šiauliai”.
Nevėžis seemed to have almost no chance as Neptūnas led by four points (83:79), but then Sedrick Barefield missed the second free throw, Ariel Hukporti took the ball and S. Barefield scored a three-point lead with 9 seconds to go . play (83:83).
David Gailius, who returned to Neptune a week ago, provoked a foul from the opponent and joined the penalty line. The forward hit the first fine, lost the second especially and there was no time for Kėdainiai.
D.Gailius was the most productive of the team with 17 points, Evaldas Šaulys added 14 points.
Julius Jucikas scored 19 points for the losers, but made mistakes 7 times. A.Hukporti has 16 points and 7 rebounds.
Neptune: D. Gailius 17, E.Šaulys 14, M.Jogėla 11, Ž.Janavičius 9.
Nevėžis: J.Jucikas 19 (7th grade), A.Hukporti16 (7th grade), S.Barefieldas 11.
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