Important win for Rilski Sportist
Rilski Sportist recorded an important home win in 16th round of Bulgarian league. The team hosted Cherno more in Samokov and won the match 78-62. It puts Rilski with 8 wins and 5 losses and the team is now favourite to finish in the top 4 before the Cup finals.
Rilski led early, then allowed the visitors to come back but again the hosts took a good lead. At the break Rilski led by 11 but strong start of the second half from Cherno more gave the visitors the lead. Rilski though responded with 12-0 run and in the last quarter managed to keep the opponents away from them.
Vernon Taylor had 16 points and 7 rebounds for the winners while Zlatin Georgiev had 15 and 6.
For the visitors Asen Velikov finished with 16 points as 14 added Stanimir Marinov.
FULL STATS FROM THE GAME RILSKI SPORTIST - CHERNO MORE
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