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Swedich team reminded of their strength in the small final against Aisciai from Kaunas 99:98 after overtime. F. Drains 25 points helped his team to secure the 3rd place in the SEB BBL Challenge Cup.
Dolphins had an inspired start of the game (4:0, 2min, 15:6, 3min.). Their offenses were well-coordianted. With the help of Gervin and Grant, Dolphins acquired a lead after the first quarter - 25:16.
The situation started to look even more grim for the Aisciai fans, as the gap continued widening in the second quarter (35:21, 6min,38:21,5min.). But Aisciai had good 5 minutes and score after the first half was not so bad for lithuanian - 44:37 by Dolphins.
In the second half, Aisciai started increasing the tempo, and this partially worked (48:48,7min. 55:48 (by Aisciai), 5min). After the third quarter 65:62 by Kaunas team.
Even if Dolphin managed to close up to a dangerous range (79:77,3min.), Aisciai were not in a mood to play around. But in the last minutes they were not capable of maintaining their lead till the end of the game. "Dolphins" reached overtime - 87:87.
Overtime began with Masiulis and Dimsa dunks, but "Dolphins" has answers to (95:94 (by Aisciai),2min.). Both teams kept intrigue until last seconds , but Dolphins was a little stronger.
Top scorers:
Aisciai: E.Dimsa 32, P. Beliavicius 24, T.Masiulis 20.
Dolphins: F.Drains 25, G.Gervin 21 J.Kjelbom 16.