NEWSDynamo St Petersburg completed a two-game sweep of Maroussi to reach a European Final Four for the second straight season.
The Russian team, which went undefeated en route to last year's FIBA Europe League crown, won 71-59 on Friday after their 64-53 Game 1 triumph at Maroussi earlier in the week. |
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Dynamo St. Petersburg took a significant step in attempting to defend their title from last year by defeating Maroussi 64-53 in the teams’ opening game best-of-three quarterfinal match-up.
Kelly Mc Carty scored a game-high 19 points and Dynamo controlled almost the entire game. |
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More HeadlinesMaroussi Honda have a EuroCup quarter-final showdown on February 21 against last year's FIBA Europe League champions Dynamo St Petersburg, but until then Panagiotis Yannakis' men are hard at work being one of the top sides in Greece.
On Saturday, Maroussi defeated Kolossos Rhodes 75-61 after an excellent shooting performance. Yannakis' players were 13 off 23 from the arc in the victory with Nikolaos Bountouris a red-hot four of six. |
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Maroussi’s Roderick Blakney had an almost perfect shooting night in his team's 57-55 win over RheinEnergie earlier this week.
Blakney scored 26 points to help Maroussi clinch the top spot in Group G and as a result he was named the EuroCup Player of the Week. |
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Dionysou & Pournara, 15124 Athens, GRE Tel: +30 (210) 610 88 97 Fax: +30 (210) 610 88 97 Capacity: 1250
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StaffPresident: Vovos Armodios General Manager: Andreas Papantoniou Manager: David Stergakos-Nelson Press contact: Giannis Dentopoulos
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