61-65 was the final score to seal the clash between Panathinaikos Vs Olympiakos at the OAKA indoor arena in views of day 12 in the HEBA League.
A down to the wire encounter in which opponents went neck-to-neck all through its duration. Panathinaikos led first, got to +3 five time in the first quarter but was unable to creep away further from its guest. The away-team reacted, got up but a single point on a couple of occasions and the quarter ended at 18-18. The reds formed a 3 point cushion at 11’50’’ (18-21), Panathinaikos nonetheless went for a sweet three minute period mounting +5 for the first time during this time span (34-29, 17’50’’), only to follow through on a dry spell which allowed it to trail by 5 (36-41, 22’20’’) behind a partial 2-12 it suffered. Drew Nicholas armed his gun, aided Panathinaikos in tying at 41-41 (24’), slightly prior to Stratos Perperoglou offering the play of the eve up to now on a personal attempt, beginning in backcourt to lead to 43-43 (25’). A three at the third quarter buzzer flexed the score to 49-51. Nerves got to the best of all players on court to lead to the fact that during the first five minutes of the fourth quarter only 7 points had been added in accumulation to the score board, score at 54-53 (35’40’’) and of these only 2 points provided of a field goal. At this point game was interrupted, allow all seemed calm, due to an item being thrown into bounds. First ref of the clash, Chryssostomos Schinas, did not think twice to summon both teams to leave the court. Teams returned almost five minutes later for the game to continue, Mike Batiste getting a pair of free-throws to 56-53. Nesterovic drew (58-58, 36’40’’), score flexed to 58-65 (39’20’’), Antonis Fotsis scoring last on court to final game score 61-65.
Referees: Schinas, Anastopoulos, Koromilas
Quarters: 18-18, 34-36, 49-51, 61-65
Panathinaikos (Obradovic): Tepic 2, Perperoglou 6, Batiste 6, Fotsis 9, Sato 13, Nicholas 15, Tsartsaris, Diamantidis 2, Vougioukas 5, Calathes 3, Kaimakoglou
Olympiakos (Ivkovic): Papaloukas 9, Nesterovic 17, Gordon, Spanoulis 4, Vassilopoulos, Bouroussis 8, Keselj, Mavrokefalidis 2, Halperin 5, Papanikolaou, Erceg 10, Teodosic 10
