Cherno More did it in Botevgrad

Simeon Tsenov

10-10-2007 21:10

Cherno More beat Balkan Botevgrad with 81-74 in one of the most interesting games of the first round of the national championship. The team from Varna demonstrated good skills as during most of the time was leading in the result. On the other hand, the host showed strong will and desire to win and were trying to win the game.

The first period was balanced and both teams reached the serious for the Bulgarian standarts 50 points for ten minutes. On the half time, the team of head coach Spas Natov had a 5-point-advance and in the third quarter they made it 10.

The last ten minutes happened to be quite successful for Georgi Mladenov and his guys as they tied the game and even went ahead in the result. However, Cherno More woke up and very fast took the leadership again, this time to the same end of the game.

The new addition of Cherno More – Simeon Tsenov – acted great and finished with 29 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists and showed very good shooting per cent. His debut tonight made the Lithuanian Augustinas Vitas scoring 13 points and grabbing 6 rebounds for 30 minutes on the court.

For Balkan Botevgrad, Dwayne Morton following the tradition performed stron on the playing field. He scored 20 points and 7 rebounds. The Lilov brothers also were on their highs – Ivan finished with 22 points and was the one to score most. The younger brother added also 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals. Atanas Radev entered from the bench against his former team and acted good, making 14 points and 7 rebounds.

The bed shooting per cent was the main reason for Balkan’s lost. They succeeded in only 4 of their 3-pointer-attempts and their per cent from the free throw line was low as well – less than 60 %.
On Saturday, Cherno More face at home Sliven, while Balkan comes to play in Sofia versus CSKA.