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Panevėžys coached by Nenad Čanakas finished the section 10: 0 and celebrated the victory 88:78 (29:19, 21:24, 19:25, 19:10).
The Juventus team acted without the injury of one of the leaders, Vaidas Kariniauskas. At that time, Mindaugas Kupšas played the best game of the season and repeated his career performance record: 27 points (10/10 points, 7/8 penalties, 7 rebounds) and 35 utility points.
Panagiotis Kalaitzakis debuted in Lietkabelis, who scored 5 points in 21 minutes (2/2 colonies, 0/1 triples, 1/2 penalty), bounced 2 balls, made 2 passes, made the same number of times, caused 2 fouls, 3 times he broke the rules and scored 4 utility points.
In the first quarter, the hosts of the squad left the initiative out of their hands. Lietkabelis started the section 9: 0 and sped up so much that the difference is his double digits: 25:15. Not only that, Juventus strategist Žydrūnas Urbonas received a technical foul late in the first half.
Lietkabelis tried to maintain a double-digit lead, although Martynas Gecevičius and Žygimantas Skučas tried to reduce it, and Vytautas Šulskis continued the streak – 32:36. In the end, the teams got only 2 points (43:45), but Gytis Masiulis hit from distance, Paulius Valinskas – two points, so before the long break Panevėžys reduced the tension – 50:43.
However, thanks to M. Kupšas, Utena’s team continued to grow menacingly close (51:52), and Ignas Vaitkus re-evaluated the result – 56:54. From this point on, the fight was maximally hot and tense, with the gap fluctuating in both directions at minimal distances.
P. Valinskas and K. Vinalesas collected important points (78:73), but after a couple of minutes break Marius Runkauskas also scored – 76:78. In the end, I. Vaitkus compared the result with fines (78:78), but immediately George Gagičius responded with a bet, Kyle Vinales also got it right, and the fines from Vytenis Lipkevičius finally brought the victory of “Lietkabelis”.
So far this season, the people of Utena have never bitten the people of Panevėžys: the latter won the entire duel between them so far: 78:76 and 100: 79 in the LKL championship and 84:73 in the tournament of the Copa Rey Mindaugas.
Both “Juventus” and “Lietkabelis” also hoped to catch up with Vilnius “Rytas” (17/5), who is marching for the second time, but on Sunday they will face national champion Kaunas “Žalgiris”.
“Juventus”: Mindaugas Kupšas 27 (7 rebounds), Žygimantas Skučas 11, Ignas Vaitkus (2/8 three points) and Martynas Gecevičius (2/8 three points, 7 rebounds, 6 errors) after 10, Marius Runkauskas 7 points.
Raincoat: Kyle Vinales 25 (7th ed.), Gabrielius Maldūnas 14 (8th ed.), Džordže Gagičius 13 (5 questions), Gytis Masiulis 12 (7th ed., 3/4 of three points), Vytenis Lipkevičius 9 points.
Pasvalys ‘Milk Stars’ team (10/14) showed character, putting together a great section at the end of the third quarter and thus laying the foundation for victory.
Students of Gediminas Petrauskas in a dramatic fight in the guests 76:71 (18:25, 16:16, 26:16, 16:14) resisted the Prietai CBet club (9/16).
Pasvalyski had started the match better, but CBet took the initiative quickly, kept the section 11: 2 and took the lead in 25:18. Edgar Želionis and Jahenns dissolved the gap between Manigat (25:27), but this time Justin Jogmin took over and allowed his team to go 41:34 before the long break.
CBet also started positively in the third quarter (52:37), but with long pitches, Manigat kept trying to give an answer and did well – 4 long pitches were already hit, he missed them for the rest of the game.
Pieno Žvaigždės took advantage of a strong attack from the rivals and finally kept control in his hands and led 60:57. This was made possible by a great 6 minute stretch, in which CBet scored just 3 points and Milk Stars even 21.
The guests were now more confident, but the Prieniai team did not waste any easy chances and compared the result after Einaras Tubutis and Egidijus Dimša shot from the basket – 71:71. Still, the free throws confirmed the victory of the guests: they were attacked by T. Lekūnas, then by Steven Haney, and Ignas Sargiūnas threw a fairly free three-point pass.
Previously, the Betsafe-LKL teams had met twice; both matches were won by the Pasvalys club.
The three Pasvalio players stood out for their performance. Tomas Lekūnas scored 23 points and bounced 9 balls, Paulius Petrilevičius added 14 points and J.Manigat added 13 points. In addition to the aforementioned 4 long shots by J. Manigat, T. Lekūnas added another 3, when the entire “Milk Stars” team scored 10.
In the last seconds of the match, T. Lekūnas still received a blow to the neck and left the field to the siren.
“CBet”: Egidijus Dimša 14, Dominykas Domarkas (1/7 trit., 7 res.), Einaras Tubutis (5 reps, 5 p.) And Justinas Jogminas – 11 each, Ignas Sargiūnas (1/5 trit.) And Mindaugas Sušinskas 8 points each.
“Milk stars”: Tomas Lekūnas 23 (9 reps, 9 incipients, 28 nb), Paulius Petrilevičius 14, Jahennsas Manigat 13, Steven Haney 8, Edgaras Želionis 7 points (7 reps).
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