“Red and white” first step in the A1 Women’s finals!

With the… right in the A1 Women’s finals o Olympic!

Despite his return Panathinaikou from -9, the “red and white” were cooler and more effective in the final minutes, beating 72-69in his auxiliary field CHEF.

Leading from the Piraeus team was Christinaki with 19 points and 8 rebounds, with Tobin to add 16p. and the Vitola 15 p.

From the “green” ones, she stood out Jones with 17 points, with Alain and Stamolambrau to add from 15p. each, while the second also had 17 rebounds.

The second final is scheduled for next Wednesday (17/4), in “P. Giannakopoulos”.

The match

Nervous and misguided start from both in the first minutes (4-5), with Panathinaikos finding solutions from the perimeter and escaping to +5 (8-13), in the 7th minute. Olympiacos then responded with Christinaki and Williams, tying the game (13-13), with Cvitkovic’s shots making it 13-15 in the first period.

Panathinaikos took advantage of the failure of Olympiakos and the offensive rebounds at the beginning of the second quarter, escaping to +8 (16-24), in the 13th minute. The answer of the “red and white” came from Christinaki, who initially brought the match to the basket (24-26), while with Vitola she went ahead (31-30), in the 18th minute. In the final minutes, the “greens” secured the rebounds and closed the first half with a 4-0 run, for 31-34.

Olympiacos started the second half with a 5-0 run, taking the lead (36-34) and then having control, went to +6 (46-40), at 25′. Alain kept the “green” offensive, but Vitola and Spyridopoulou provided solutions to the “red and white”, which sent the difference to +9 (52-43) and closed the third period at +8 (54-46).

With Alleyne and Jones, Panathinaikos initially put the difference in the basket (56-54) at the beginning of the fourth period and then with Sotiriou it went to (60-64), in the 37th minute. Olympiacos responded with Tobin and Christinakis and with a 6-0 run, went ahead (66-64), at 1:12” before the end. With a three-pointer by Jones, the guests regained the lead, with Vitola making 2/2 shots to overtake (68-67), 39” before the end. On the next possession, Jones fouled out with Tobin also making 2/2 from the line (70-67) at 14.4”. In the last seconds, he had continuous shots, with Olympiakos winning with the final 72-69.

The quarters: 13-15, 31-34, 54-46, 72-69

See here the match statistics