FYR of Macedonia got off to an excellent start in their EuroBasket qualifying campaign with a 71-58 away win over Ukraine.

Pero Antic scored 26 points as FYR of Macedonia finished the game on a 16-3 run to win it.
Serhiy Lishchuk's three-pointer for Ukraine tied the scores at 55-55.

But Damjan Stojanovski responded with a three-pointer and the score was 61-55 when Darko Sokolov nailed another with 3:14 to go.

Sergii Gladyr split a pair of free throws to maintain Ukraine's interest, but the game was getting away from them as Todor Gechevski added two more insurance points from the charity stripe.
Antic then hit two more with 42 second left to extend the lead to nine.

Lishchuk cut the gap to seven with a jump-shot, but those were Ukraine's final points on the night as Gechevski and Markes Grin wrapped things up from the free-throw line.

Gechevski finished with 16 points while Vojdan Stojanovski had 11 before fouling out.
Denys Lukashov led Ukraine with 12 points, while Lishchuk collected 11 and Dmytro Gliebov got 10.