In the championship of Ukraine on basketball on Wednesday, March 29, regular matches were played in the men’s Super League. “Cherkasy Monkeys” on the home court for the second time in a season beat “Polytechnic-Galicia” ( 79:72 ), and “Budivelnik” in the Dnieper defeated “Zaporozhye” ( 82:75 ). Earlier, the capital “Kyiv-Basket” defeated “Prykarpattya-Hoverla” 83:43.
Cherkasy Monkeys won the home bubble match of the Superleague regular season.
Artem Slipenchuk’s team was leading the score throughout the match – Lviv didn’t have a single point of advantage in this game. The team of Yaroslav Zubrytsky approached Cherkasy several times and equalized the score, but each time the hosts responded with their jerk. So the last word in this match was for the Monkeys, who this time kept the advantage and won by a score of 79:72.
A powerful match was played by the center of the hosts Sergey Skir, who has a double-double – 21 points, 13 rebounds and 4 block shots (PE 30).
In the last match of the home bubble Monkeys on March 30 will play against Kyiv-Basket, and Lviv will face Stary Lutsk.
Superleague. Regular season
Cherkasy, PS Stroitel
Polytechnic-Galicia — Cherkasy Monkeys 72:79 (15:29, 25:13, 16:17, 16:21)
Polytechnic: Gorobchenko 22 + 5 rebounds + 5 assists, Berezhnoy 21 + 5 rebounds – 4 losses, Tishchenko 9 + 13 rebounds + 4 assists – 4 losses, Fedchuk 5, Kramar 2 – start, Ozhegov 6, Kich 4, Stanishevsky 3 + 7 selection, Bartolomeev 0
Monkeys: Kozha 21 + 13 rebounds + 4 blocks, Maxwell 19 + 7 rebounds + 6 assists – 4 turnovers, Lipovtsev 11, Kuznetsov 10 + 5 steals + 4 rebounds, Ruslov 7 + 4 assists – start, Reed 11, Poshablya 0 , Sorochan 0
Stolichny Budivelnyk won a difficult victory over Zaporozhye 82:75 in the framework of the Dnipro bubble of the men’s Superleague.
Given that the champion and the main outsider played this season, intrigue was not expected in the match. This was confirmed by the first quarter, which the Builder started 9:0 and won 12 points during it. However, the Cossacks gradually leveled the game, approached the opponent in the score, and at the end of the second quarter they took the lead, winning the half 35:34.
In the third quarter, Zaporozhye continued to play on equal terms with the favorite, using the absence of Vladimir Konev in the application and the weak play in the defense of the Stroitel. Did not affect the situation and a break due to air raid alert 2 minutes before the end of the third quarter. Zaporizhia kept the intrigue almost to the end – 3 minutes before the end of the meeting the score was 72:72, but Pavel Burenko scored 10 points in a row, while Zaporizhzhia at that moment did not realize any of its attacks, so in the end Budivelnyk calmly brought the match to victory.
The best player of the match was Burenko, who has 33 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. RE 33. Double-double scored by Sergey Priymak and Maxim Sandul. Roman Morozov scored 26 points in Zaporozhye, converting 10 of 11 free throws. It is interesting that the Builder had only 11 free throws for the entire match, of which the Kiev team converted 9.
Superleague. Regular season
Dnepr, SK “Shinnik”
Zaporozhye – Builder 75:82 (14:20, 21:14, 24:27, 16:21)
Zaporozhye: Buts 16+10 rebounds, Bykov 17+5 rebounds, Lednev 4+6 rebounds, Morozov 26+5 rebounds, Telcharov 9 – start; Pokoenko 3+5 assists, Klimanov 0, Dmitrenko 0
Builder: Zaitsev 8, Kabanov 2, Priymak 15+10 rebounds, Burenko 33+5 rebounds + 6 assists, Sandul 11+15 rebounds – start; Kolchenko 7+6 assists, Safonov 5, Hohonik 1, Nikitin 0, Khizhnyak 0
Source: Obozrevatel
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