FIBA EuroBasket Roundup Day 5: Bosnia And Herzegovina and FYR Macedonia win (Part-4)
Bosnia And Herzegovina 92 – Croatia 80
Playing at the Alytus arena on Sunday, Bosnia And Herzegovina brought forth an untiring assail from beyond the arc and hampered Croatia to clinch a comprehensive 92-80 victory. Bosnia scored 39 points from the 3-point range by
connecting 13 of those shots, leaving no room for the opposition to strike back.
Mirza Teletovic had an outstanding scoring performance for Bosnia as he landed a game-high 26 points and gathered 9 rebounds. Bosnia And Herzegovina’s shooting guard Henry Domercant carried the action down the stretch for the team
and finished off with 23 points and 7 boards.
Even though Croatian teams superstars Ante Tomic and Bojan Bogdanovic had an impressive night and combined for 39 points however they failed to match the brilliance of Bosnia’s duo.
On the quest of clinching their second win in the tournament, Bosnia And Herzegovina headed out aggressively. However Croatia responded with the identical force which tied the first quarter 28-28. Both the team started the second
quarter with the same pace until Bosnia restricted Croatia to land a bucket in the last four minutes which provided a comprehensive 43-36 lead to Bosnia going into the halftime.
Tomic and Bogdanovic stepped up in the third quarter and managed to reduce the deficit by 2 points however Bosnia buried five scorching blows from downtown in last quarter and took the game out of the hands of Croatia.
FYR Macedonia 72 – Finland 70
After facing a defeat in their first game of the 2011 European Championship, FYR Macedonia registered their third successive victory on Sunday evening by toppling Finland in a thrilling combat. Macedonia’s captain Pero Antic posted
yet another brilliant double-double as his team defeated Finland by 72-70 and confirmed a spot in the second round of the tournament.
The 29-year-old Antic didn’t had the best shooting nigh however he was absolutely incredible on the rebounds and finished the game with 14 points and 19 boards. On the whole, FYR Macedonia out-rebounded Finland 44-34 which eventually
turned out to be the reason of their success.
Finland displayed a better performance on the offence in the first three quarters which earned them a good-looking 58-54 lead before entering the fourth quarter.
Antic opened the last frame with a blistering 3-pointer however Finland responded in the same fashion quickly and kept their 4-point lead. Macedonia’s instrumental point guard Bo Mccalebb surged with back to back buckets and scored
7 points to provide FYR Macedonia 64-63 lead from where they never trailed and wrapped up an exhilarating 2-point victory.
McCalebb, who played the role of a saviour in the defining moments of the game for Macedonia, netted a game-high 18 points.
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