Vitalyur wins the fourth straight title in Belarus OZAA - Vitalyur 82:86 Vitalyur won the Belarusian championship for the 4th straight time. They overcame OZAA Osipovichi in the third game of the Final series to complete a sweep. But the win was far from an easy journey for renowned Vitalyur. OZAA already proved it was not an accident they got into the title series and challenged their titled opponents. OZAA stayed ahead in the first frame and completed it ahead 23:22. But Vitalyur surged ahead at halftime 40:39 though the lead changed hands as many as 21 times throughout the action. Milos Maksimovic (200-F-85) ignited a rally from the hosts that put OZAA up by 5 points midway through the third frame. Vitalyur recovered well and fast and maintained a one-point advantage after three quarters of action. Vitalyur went on a 10:0 run to open the fourth frame and the intrigue seemed to perish. But Yevgen Oleynik fueled an 8:0 response from the hosts as they cut the gap and stayed alive in the game. But Vitalyur capitalized on a couple of key mistakes from OZAA in the dying minutes to pull away with a vital win. Kuchinskiy accounted for a couple of jumpers, while Uladzimir Charko (200-F-74) intercepted the ball and dunked it home to give the visitors a 4-point lead with 23 seconds left in regulation. OZAA did not fin a proper answer in the seconds left and had to surrender at the end. Uladzimir Charko led Vitalyur charge with 21 points and 7 boards. Kuchinskiy nailed 17 points and issued 8 assists, while Aliaksei Trastianetsky (201-F-86) provided 12 points for the winners. Heorhi Kandrusevich (197-F-78, agency: Promotex) produced 24 points and 8 boards for OZAA. Milos Maksimovic narrowly missed a triple-double completing the game with 24 points, 10 boards and 9 assists. OZAA: Heorhi Kandrusevich 24, Milos Maksimovic 24+10 boards Vitalyur: Uladzimir Charko 21, Kuchinskiy 17, Aliaksei Trastianetsky 12 IX All Star Game The IX All Star Game took place at italyur Sport Hall on January 12 opening 2008 Belarusian basketball year. The first five players of East and West teams were elected by amateurs, another - were chosen by coaches. Everyone intended to visit the match just to see wonderful show, and everybody was satisfied with what he saw as lot of basket beauty was presented there. As for the game, both teams wished to win, and the final score 105:104 appeared to be proving of it. Special attention was given to two premiere league stars Alexander Koul was playing for West and Georhi Kandrusevich was involved in East. Both are main players to be Championship MVP. The win in this match was on KG side of course: sweet dunk through-above Alexander the Big and final-second earned and realized fouls in the 4Q gave preference for the wizard of OZAA to be named as IX All Star Game MVP. Kanstantin Yafremau was named as the best player of West team. Maksim Shustau won 3 points competition, and Sergei Dadykin was the best in the dunk competition. A fabulous show and an amazing end of the game saw Belarus spectators in All Star Game recently. Heorhi Kandrusevich (197-F-78, agency: Promotex) made 2 free throws with 1 second remaining and brought the win for his East team, 105:104 over West. He finished the game with 19 points for the winners. Heorhi Kandrusevich was named the MVP of the game and deserved that award truthfully. West however started with 30:26 win in the opening quarter. The team looked better in the third as well, but it happened only after 14:25 in the second. Pavel Gabrusevich (194-G-82) scored 23 points for West being the top-scorer of the game. Koule ended up with 20, while Efremov scored 19. Shustov supported the MVP player with 19 points for East. West-East 104:105 (30:26, 14:25, 30:23, 30:31) West: Pavel Gabrusevich (23), Osipovich (6), Efremov (19), Mostov (8), Koule (20); Mishukov (11), Ãâ€.Sviridov (10), Didik (5), Sapegin (2), Shtereb (0). East : Poderachev (3), Ristich (9), Heorhi Kandrusevich (19), Sharko (13), Oleg Eremenko (200-F-86) (14); Shustov (19), Gubko (12), Bibik (11), Yakovitskiy (3), Dyadikin (2). |
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