With a victory for Lightning, he finished tonight’s derby, which was one of the two matches, opened by the curtain for the 24th Ecommbx Basket League.
After a spectacular showdown, Lightning won APOEL 112-97.
In the halftime the winners had been 54-50 and had Hagins (29 points-36 points).
The match began quite fast, with the two teams being apt, especially from the region, and while the thunderbolt maintained a steady light lead, at the same time that Stylianou was constantly giving regional scoring to the home side.
At 5`, Lightning led 18-12, and then APOEL with a 8-0 run, overtaken 20-18, but shortly thereafter, with a 7-0 series of Thunderbolt led 25-20.
Upon completion of 1o The Thunderbolt was ahead 27-23.
The fast pace continued at the beginning of 2o period, with lightning maintaining a steady lead around +5.
All this, at a time when the two teams continued to be apt outside the three -point line.
Shortly before 16`, Lightning led 43-36, but then APOEL recording a 9-0 series, overtaken 45-43 and shortly afterwards, the guest’s series, climbed to 12-2 and score at 48-45 for APOEL.
However the exciting 1the Half a half ended with a 9-2 series for the thunderbolt leading 54-50.
The fast pace continued at the time of 3th A piece of the match, with Lightning holding a small lead, but at 24`, APOEL led 65-61, with Williams (and Dawes) creating continuous faults in the opposing defense.
Lightning then reacted and creating a 10-2 series, passed 71-67.
Shortly thereafter, the hosts increased the difference to +10, when they were 80-70, with their individual series reaching 19-5 (from 65-61 at their expense).
With this score, 3 closed 3or period.
However from the beginning of 4o The thunderbolt gradually began to constantly increase its in favor of the difference, and as time went, the more it was in the victorious result.
When the timer showed 34`43“, Mantovanis was eliminated for a foul, on Pasassali and while at the time, the score was at 98-76 for Lightning, with Hagins giving continuous solutions to the hosts.
With the value of the difference to +22 and based on the time of time, it was very difficult to change the data, and shortly after this event, the thunderbolt reached 100 points to finally reach 112 and win the match 112-97.
10 minutes: 27-23, 54-50, 80-70, 112-97.
Lightning (Michalis Kakiouzis): Horton 9, Stylianou 20 (6), F. Tigas 12 (2), Dreznjak 20 (4), Taylor 7, Hagins 29 (6), Pasialis 2, Michael 4, Christodoulides, Koumis 4, S. Tigas 5 (1), Pavlidis.
APOEL Perestroika (Nikolas Papadopoulos): Dawes 26 (4), Singelton 15 (3), Jung 4, Papamichael 5 (1), Parker 10, Williams 30 (7), Sofokleous, Varsos, 5 (1), Mantovanis 2.