Montenegro Beat Swedes, Go Up To Division A

Montenegro stormed into EuroBasket Division A with an 88-71 victory at home over Sweden on Wednesday night in the Promotion Round play-offs.

The win secured a 158-121 triumph on aggregate for Dusko Vujosevic's team.

Marvelous Montenegro Rout Swedes In First Leg

The Montenegro basketball machine showed no signs of slowing down in Norrköping on Saturday as Nikola Pekovic and Co rolled to a 70-50 triumph over Sweden.

In the first leg of the EuroBasket Division B Play-off, the Montenegrins began to pull away at the end of the first half and ended up hammering the Swedes to remain undefeated and take a giant step towards winning promotion to Division A.

Sweden Sign Off With Big Win

Joakim Kjellbom had 29 points and nine rebounds for the Scandinavians, who have kept their hopes of winning promotion alive despite the absence of star player Jonas Jerebko.

Packed House See Georgia Clinch Group C

Georgia won their showdown against Sweden in front of nearly 10,000 fans in Tbilisi on Wednesday to clinch first place in Group C of EuroBasket Division B.

Zaza Pachulia scored 21 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as the Georgians won 82-72.