Third place for the National Deaf men’s basketball team at the Malaga European Championship. In Saturday’s “small” final, he defeated Poland for the second time in the tournament, 86-80, and won the bronze medal, the first in 16 years.
The main protagonist of this victory was Apollon Deligeorgis, who in the last 10 minutes performed “in bursts”, with the Poles unable to stop him. He scored almost half of the National Team’s points (47, with 4/5 3-pointers).
And this game, like the rest of the men’s national team, offered all kinds of emotions. The first half looked like it would comfortably take the win and the medal, but in the second we had to go to the last period to finally decide the winner.
The 10 minutes: 21-16, 25-18, 10-23, 30-23
National team of Greece (Vassilis Geragotellis): Koskinas, Erinakis, Milios 6 (0/2), Ganatsas, Glynis, Dikoudis 6, Vaiopoulos, Petalas 2 (0/4), Vavatsikos 17 (2/4), Deligeorgis 47 (4/5), Konstandaras 2, Tsagaroulis 6
Two Greeks were included in the best five of the European. Apollonas Deligeorgis who was also awarded as first scorer and Yiannis Vavatsikos. Yiannis Erinakis was awarded the title of Fair Play.
Source: Sport Fm
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