Jolly JBS Sibenik guard Jessica Dickinson remains upbeat despite her side losing at Bourges Basket in the first game of their first appearance in the EuroLeague Women.

"I think we did really well. We were in the game the whole time and only trailed by six

		Andja Jelavic had 18 points in Sibenik Jolly JBS' first game but it was not enough.

points with five minutes left. But we lost our concentration and they pulled away. Still, we would have liked to have won that first game," said Dickinson, who scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds in Sibenik's 89-72 loss.

The Croatians, who played in the European Cup for Women's Champions Clubs in 1992, saw the French powers use an 8-0 run to blow the game open.

But Dickinson knows the team will take plenty of positives from the game as they prepare to host Halcon Avenida in a Group B battle of 0-1 sides.

"We will look at and work on our mistakes. We did not do a good job boxing out, and that hurt," said the 23-year-old American, making her professional basketball debut after playing last season at the University of South Florida.

Dickinson may be a rookie, but she is not afraid of setting lofty goals for Sibenik, who last season reached the sixteenth-finals of the EuroCup Women and lost to CSKA Sofia in the Adriatic League finals.

"I think we really have a good team. Everybody wants to get to the finals," said Dickinson.

When asked what the club needs to do to advance to the final, she added: "We just have to go out and play our game as a team. We can't just sit and watch other teams play. There may be more experienced clubs, but we have a chance too."