Incredible Milon against the odds!
With a counterattack in the fourth period, the Nea Smyrni team won 87-79 the local and favorite Panionio in the Final Four, thus celebrating this year’s Elite League championship and promotion to the Basket League after 23 years and the 2000/01 season!
The “blue and red” had the lead for three quarters, but in the fourth, the main protagonist of the match “spoke”, Zach Bryantwho took Milos by the hand and his team partial score 28-19!
The American and MVP of this year’s championship finished the match with 23 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. Another 13p. added the veteran Steve Bartwhile a double-double was done by Gaios Skordilis with 10p. and 10 rebounds.
On the other hand, the first scorer for Panionios was Dejon Davis with 19 points.
However, the “red and blue” have a second chance to return to the “big rooms”, as they will face Iraklis on Sunday (19/5, 16:00)for the second ascent ticket.
The quarters: 22-14, 41-38, 60-59, 79-87
Panionios (Lykogiannis): Skandalos, Milendigevic 16 (4), Papadionisiou 6, Antonakis, Harris 11 (1), Kaklamanakis 15, Vougioukas 2, Davis 19 (1), Gikas 10 (3).
Milos (Kouris): Bryant 23, Skordilis 10, Petridis 2, Melissaratos 11 (1), Motsenigos 7 (1), Bart 12, Zoubos, Dimakos 12 (1), Kanonidis 9 (1).
Source: Sport Fm
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