A decisive match will be needed: “Olimpas” won dramatically in Marijampole

“Olimpas” of Palanga won the decisive match of the “7bet-NKL” small final. Sanjis Bushkevic’s students are visiting 84:81 (21:21, 16:13, 26:26, 21:21) broke “Sūduva-Mantinga” from Marijampole.

In the series up to three victories, the result became equal – 2-2. The decisive meeting for the bronze medals of “7bet-NKL” will take place on Friday from 19:00. in Palanga.

With a minute and a half left, Tautvydas Kliučinikas’ three-pointer cut the home team’s deficit to 2 points (79:81). A little later, Vytautas Šulskis already equalized the result (81:81).

The Palanga team was led by Tautvydas Baltrushaitis, whose points with a foul with 29 seconds left gave them the advantage (84:81). In the remaining time, Dominykas Domarkas had two attempts to send the game to overtime, but both three-pointers went wide.

“Olimpas” won the first match at home (87:79), but later stumbled both in Marijampole (81:83) and in Palanga (76:81).

Antanas Udras and Žygymantas Šimonis did not help “Sūduvai-Mantingai” in this match, Julius Kazakauskas, Amandas Urkis and Paulius Danisevičius did not help “Olimp”.

The match started with real battles and in the first half the home team could not get away with a difference of more than 4 points and after 10 minutes of the game, equality prevailed (21:21).

The persistent fight moved to the second quarter, at the end of which, before the long break, the Palanga team managed to get ahead (37:34).

The Marijampolians, who cherished the ball, made only two mistakes in the first half of the duel, while Olimpas made four mistakes. The second half was a fierce battle, but “Olympus” achieved a dramatic victory.

Karolis Guščikas stood out the most in the ranks of the Palanga team, who had 19 points (6/9 doubles, 1/1 triples, 4/4 penalties), 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 22 utility points in 31 minutes.

For the Marijampole team, Vytautas Šulskis scored 19 points (7/10 doubles, 0/1 triples, 5/5 free kicks), rebounded 5 balls, made 2 assists and collected 24 utility points in 32 minutes.

“Sūduva-Mantinga”: Vytautas Šulskis 19 (7/10 doubles, 5/5 penalties, 5 rebounds), Giedrius Bergaudas 17 (7/11 doubles, 7 rebounds), Tautvydas Kliučinikas 15 (4/7 triples) , Dominykas Domarkas 10 (2/7 threes, 8 rebounds, 4 assists), Paulius Beliavičius 8 (2/6 threes).

Olympus: Karolis Guščikas 19 (6/9 doubles, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks, 4 errors), Tautvydas Baltrušaitis 14 (3/4 triples, 2 blocks), Robert Subotkevič 12 (2/5 triples, 9 rebounds), Šarūnas Valunta (4/9 doubles, 10 rebounds), Tadas Budrys (4/5 doubles) and Marius Runkauskas (2/7 triples, 6 rebounds) 10 each .