Vitalyur won the Championship 2007 !!!
Vitalyur
won the most important game of the season, defeating in the 5th game
of the final Grodno-93 91-67.
Vitalyur was clear favorite of the play-offs as they won the regular
season without any diofficulties. However Grodno-93 was susprisingly
equal partner in the finals and they barely avoided the biggest
upset of the season as tehy stole 2 games in best of 5 final series. Vitalyur - Grodno-93 91:67 (33:20; 20:16; 20:20;
18:11)
VIII All Star Game
The 8th All Star
Game was held in Belarus. EAST overcame WEST in a very tough,
however show game 115:113. The top scorer for the winners was
Dmitri Kouzmine (197-G-75) with 21 points.
Heorhi Kandrusevich (197-F-78, agency:
Promotex) ended up with 26 points for the West.
This time the event took place in Brest in sport complex Victoria.
The teams showed an excellent basketball that was greatly applauded
by the spectators. East and West were mostly consisted of the
players from the 3 best teams in Belarus. Those of them who play in
the same team in the Championship were selected for the same teams
in All Star Game. That helped the players and coaches to show some
nice combinations, knowing well each other.
It is a pleasure to mention that ALL the players who participated in
the game scored at least some points. That is a very important
factor to the players and to the coaches of the teams. In the East,
except
Dmitri Kouzmine,
Aleksandr Verenich (202-F-71) added 20, Ignatik 16, Konuyshenko
15, Sharko 11, Shustov 10, Bibik 8, Karankevich 6, Gabrusevich 6,
Pitnikov 3. For the Westt except
Heorhi Kandrusevich, Sviridov finished with 15 points, Efremov
14, Uskov 10, Maksimov 9, Vasilenko 9, Kachan 9, Sviridov 8, Gubko
7, Poderachev 6.
The show was also accompanied with Slam Dunk Contest and
Three-Points Contest. Radchuk was the best Slam-dunker, who
represents OZAA. Pitntikov won the Three-Points Contest. The latter
represents Vitalyur.
