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Team Utena Juventus became the second participant of the semi-final of the Lithuanian Basketball League (Betsafe-LKL) and invited 87:80 (23:21, 20:22, 20:27, 17:17) beat the Prienai CBet club.
Juventus won the quarter-final series with two 2: 0 victories.
Utena’s team is already waiting for Kaunas “Žalgiris”.
In the first part of the match, Prienai’s team had the advantage and led twice at the same time – 16: 8. Still, with a 7: 0 streak, Juventus cut the gap to a minimum (15:16), although they failed to overcome the result for a long time. Only towards the end of the second quarter, Martynas Paliukėnas managed to equal the result – 43:43.
After the big break, Vaidas Čepukaitis and Vytautas Šulskis put Juventus ahead for the first time in the match (48:43), and Bryantas Crawford helped the team stay ahead. Now Utena was in control, leading 70:63 before the fourth quarter.
Prienai’s team kept the intrigue alive after Egidijus Dimša’s points (71:75), but Bryantas Crawford started the triple – 78:71. E.Dimša and Justinas Jogminas did not let the CBet team give up (78:81), and there was still a minute and a half to escape.
Strigo’s Utena attack, but the same was on the other side of the plaza. There were 42 seconds left, Mindaugas Sušinskas left the field with a shot onto the floor and M.Paliukėnas added a free kick. B.Crawfod also had two opportunities, which he did not take, and G. Matulis used one of the two: 83:78. Prienai’s club had 29 seconds to go and B.Crawford only once again confirmed the victory of “Juventus”.
Emmanuel Lecomte did not help Prienai’s team, and Utena’s team was left without Ignas Vaitkus and Martynas Gecevičius.
“CBet”: Mindaugas Sušinskas 17, Einaras Tubutis 12 (10 rep.), Simas Jarumbauskas 11, Martynas Pacevičius 9, Dominykas Domarkas 8 (2/7 trit.).
“Juventus”: Vytautas Šulskis 22 (5/11 trit.), Bryantas Crawfordas 21, Vaidas Čepukaitis 12 (7th grade), Mindaugas Kupšas 11, Martynas Paliukėnas and Žygimantas Skučas (13th grade) – 7 each.
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