Dorsten had a huge victory tonight over Zagreb. After having looked like the secure winner Dorsten almost gave the game out of their hands in the last quarter when Zagreb had a surprising comeback. Nevertheless at the end the Germans moved up to 5-1 wins and qualified for the second round.

		21 points and Game-MVP: Svetlana Martynova (BG Dorsten)

Dorsten took the lead from the first minute on. Zagreb had very serious problems on offence-side as their most important guard was missing due to injury. Croatia failed many of their shots from mid distance and Dorsten was very successful in getting the rebounds. The Germans used their size-advantages of their tall centers very well. Svetlana Martynova made great 21 points.

For three quarters it seemed as if Croatia could never get closer then ten points but then in the last quarter Dorsten made too much mistakes ion defence-hand and suddenly Zagreb was hard on their heels. Especially Dea Klein- Sumanovac got more and more into the game and scored amazing 31 points.

The last few minutes were very exciting. At the score of 74:72 and 1:23 minutes to play, Jasenka Marohnic made a two-pointer even though she was fouled. After hitting the following free throw her team suddenly was leading with one point. Now Dorsten’s Mirka Jarchovska answered with 4 points in a row but on the other side Zagreb’ Klein- Sumanovac sunk a giant three-point shoot.

16 seconds to go – score 78-75 - Klein-Sumanovac was fouled behind the three-point line and scored easily all three frees-hots. Now it seemed as Zagreb reached their goal – going into over-time. Defending very well, their hosts had to take the last shot behind the arc in person of Isabelle Grenier. At this moment everyone in the gym caught the breath – to cheer some seconds later after the ball felt through the ring. Zagreb’s desperate last shot did not hit the basket anymore and Dorsten won 81:78.

Now the German team is looking forward to which teams they will face up in the next round.

Game MVP: Dea Klein-Sumanovac and Svetlana Martynova