Tonight (Tuesday), Hapoel Petah Tikva ended its regular season in the Athena Wiener League for women in basketball with a home win, 67:79 over Elitzur Tel Aviv in a rematch from the 11th round. On the other hand, the guest who has only two league victories in her balance sheet and is ranked in last place, has another rematch left against the Herzliya girls that will be held this coming Friday.
The first half was conducted with a Tel Aviv advantage right from the start, an advantage that even reached 6 points towards the middle of the second quarter, 24:30, but then there was a slack and 4:18 minutes to the break Jordan Hopper opened the scoring 30:30. Here again Tel Aviv with a more aggressive defense and accuracy in shooting achieved a record advantage of 33:42 and until the final whistle of the first half maintained a promising advantage and went down to the break at 35:42.
In the second half, Petah Tikva took the lead, 47:48 three minutes after the start of the third quarter, with a significant improvement in the shooting ability of its players and the absorption of rebounds (total 39:46 for Petah Tikva) compared to a decrease in the visiting team’s ability, when Zlibansky Vaganio contributed just three points throughout the second half compared to 23 in the first half. 4:53 minutes before the end of the match, a record difference was recorded in favor of the Malabuses, 61:74 and from here the game was conducted without tension and with lukewarm ability on the part of both teams.
Scorers for Hapoel Petah Tikva: Kiev 27, Hopper 17, Bel 16, Hadad 11 and Roth 6
Scorers for Elitzur Tel Aviv: Moldro Wellesley 15 each, Zlibansky 14, Agenio 12, Rafael 6, Lapushnisky 6 and Identity 2.