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Entertaining  game and intrigue  until final siren  - so lovely was the BBL Cup final game between Zalgiris Kaunas and Lietuvos rytas Vilnius. BBL vice-champions after big fight has won the  battle and first tittle in this season, as the result was  83:78 (17:21, 28:16, 16:24, 22:17) by Zalgiris.

Zalgiris: D.Salenga 18 (6 reb.),  M.Pocius 17, M.Brown 12, T.Watson 10 (11 reb.), M.Kalnietis 9, T.Klimavicius 9, P.Cukinas 4, M.Begic 2, Z.Janavicius 2.
Lietuvos rytas: M.Bjelica 16 (6 reb.), B.Popovic 16, M.Gecevicius 14, A.Jomantas 11.

About the game:

In the first quarter the play was even, both team has make couple mistakes. Arturas Jomantas from Lietuvos rytas and Travis Watson from Zalgiris led their teams in this quarter, but a little stronger was Lietuvos rytas – 17:21.

In second half Zalgiris has take initiative and with good Dainius Salenga performance accumulated 8 points lead - 45:37.

After big break Lietuvos rytas has make a fast run 0:8 and (51:55) and until the end of this quarter Vilnius team has stabilize the game  and result -61:61.

In the critical part of this game Zalgiris showed good character with big help of Martynas Pocius and Dainius Salenga, which has take a decisive ball, when couple seconds was left. Zalgiris celebrated a good victory at home  - 83:78.

MPV award has won M.Pocius from Zalgiris.

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In the match for 3'rd place Latvian champions Ventspils outscored Kalev/Cramo from Estonia 91:67.
Both teams started the game impressively but in the second part of this game just Ventspils terrorized the defence of Kalev/Cramo team.

Top scorers:

Ventspils: Arturs Strelnieks 18, Martins Berkis 16, Mareks Jurevicus 13, Ronalds Zakis 12.

Kalev/Cramo: Gert Dorbek 16, Gregor Arbet 15, Viljar Veski 12.