Lukoil Academic survived at home versus Cherno More


Lukoil Academic survived at home versus Cherno More
Tim Pickette scored 21 points
21-11-2008 20:00

After second win in Eurohold Balkan League bulgarian Euroins Cherno More scared the champion of the country Lukoil Academic on their own court. A the end they lost by 83-92 but it was much closer than the final score was. Less than 2 minutes to go Euroins Cherno More cut the lead to only 5 points (83-88) and put lot of pressure on home side. However they made few costly turnovers that prevent Lukoil Academic of losing second straight loss after two years.
 

Games started greatt for the visitors which scored  four 3-pointer shots in the first three minutes of the game and grabbed the early lead. Three times in row Zeljko Bojovic managed to score while once Simeon Tsenov had a success from long distance. Lukoil Academic came back at the end of first quarter to get the first lead with 52 seconds to go after new guard Kevin Kruger scored two points. However after forst quarter we had tied game at 28 apiece.
 

Despite the fact in the second minute of second quarter one of the best players of Euroins Cherno More Corey McIntosh received his third foul and had to be benched, team from Varna didn’t stop to play even with the favorite in this game. At the half time break Lukoil Academic had 5 points advantage mostly thanks to the very good play of Kruger (13 points and 3 assists) and their captain Todor Stoykov (10  points).
 

Lukoil Academic had only one turnover in the first 20 minutes but in the same time Euroins Cherno More scored 7 times behind the arc. Bojovic had 5 three pointers and at the break was with game high 17 points. Similar to the last game from Bulgarian league Lukoil Academic didn’t play well in defense and received 47 first half points.
 

Lukoil Academic started better the second half and in minute 26 extended their lead to 14 points (68-54) but 8-0 run by the visitors cut the distance to only 6. Both teams entered the last quarter with Lukoil Academic up by 8 points.
 

In the beginning of last 10 minutes of the game Bojovic scored his seventh trey to cut it to only 5 (73-68). Lukoil Academic answered with 7 consecutive points to get double digit once again (80-68). With four minutes to go in the game thanks to another 3-pointer shot (this time by Radionov) the score was 86-80. 1.49 before the final buzzer McIntosh even cut the lead to 88-83 after two succesfull free throws. However those were the last points by Euroins Cherno More in this game. With Nenad Canak and Stoykov scoring twice Lukoil Academic escaped with 92-83 victory.
 

Americans Kruger and Pickett scored 21 points apiece for Lukoil Academic while Bojovic managed game high 26 for the visitors. McIntosh and their big guy Atila Santos added 18 points each.


The game was last test for Lukoil Academic before their first game in Eurocup against russian Unics Kazan next Tuesday. Next weekend Euroins Cherno More play another game away from Varna, this time at the court of CSKA in bulgarian capital.

 

FULL STATS OF THE LUKOIL ACADEMIC - CHERNO MORE GAME


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