Women’s basketball team Radivoj Korac won for the third time in a row the champion title of Serbia! In the final play –off of the Women’s basketball league of Serbia Korac defeated Red star with 3:0 in the serial, as it has , in the third game played in the sport center “ Sumice” celebrated with the result 73:63 ( 14:11, 25:22, 13:16,21:14).
The third final game was pretty balanced , but Korac has shown that their team is more experienced and qualitative. Red Star had the advantage mostly in the first quarter , but the hosting team left the court for the first break with the score in plus- 14:11, after the serial of goals 7:1 in the finish.
In the second quarter hosting team started with the serial of three-point filed goals scored by Pasic, Vasovic, Vuckovic…. Thus, in the 14th minute Korac had advantage of 25:15. However, in the finish of the second part Red Star woke up , and they went on the big break with the pretty close result 39:33.
The third quarter started with three-point field goals scored first by Pasic and after that by Colic. The girls in Red Star team played much better , and after three-point field goal scored by Katarina Zec and point scored by Aleksandra Katanic, in the 25th minute , Red Star came close to “ minus two” – 45:43. This was followed by pretty nervous period of the game where three technical fouls were made , each to Milos Pavolvic, Korac’s coach, and Dragan Vukovic, Red star coach, as well as to Katarina Zec for simulation. At the 30th minute the scoreboard showed 52:49 for Radivoj Korac.
The beginning of the last part was marked by brilliant Jovana Pasic. She scored, assisted , provided the advantage of 64:55 to Korac with two three-point field goals in a row at 34th minute. After that Korac controlled the result and preserved the advantage till the end of the game nad big celebration .
In Korac team , the most effective was Jovana Pasic with 21 point, Anja Spaspojevic score was 13 . and Natasa Bucevac had 10 points. In Red Star team Snezana Colic socred 21 point, Katarina Zec had 17 , and Mina Djordjevic 11 points.
Jovana Pasic, a player in Radivoj Korac, received the award for the MVP in the final serial and was pronounced as the best shooter in the final. Gold and silver medals were handed by Ana Dabovic and Nevena Jovanovic, basketball national team players , and Mr. Dragan Djilas , the President of KSS , handed the trophy.
Full statistics can be found on :
http://www.kss-live.com/azl/live.php?id=rad_crv