Wisła Can Pack

Erin Phillips scored 18 points for Wisła Can-Pack. Photo: Krzysztof Porębski.

In the Polish League 10th round game Wisła Can-Pack dedeated ROW Rybnik 80:56. Erin Phillips scored 18 points for the "White Star" team. This is 10th Wisła Can-Pack victory in present season of Polish Championships. Because of the first defeat of CCC Polkowice team Wisła Can-Pack took the lead in the standings of Polish Women Basketball Championships!

Wisła Can-Pack started the game with the following players: Paulina Pawlak, Nicole Powell, Ewelina Kobryn, Erin Phillips i Joanna Czarnecka. First points scored Rachele Fitz for ROW. Next points were scored by ROW player - Sybil Dosty. After almost two minutes of the game Nicole Powell scored for Wisła Can-Pack for the first time in the game by shooting for 3 points. The next minutes of the first quarter were equal, but ROW Rybnik was still on the lead. In the sixth minutes of the game Nicole Powell scored again for Wisła Can-Pack and the result was 13:13. Next 3 points were scored by Rebecca Harris from ROW and guests were on the lead 16:13. But after this action Erin Phillips made two effective actions one by one and scored 4 points pushing Wisła Can-Pack to the lead, which the "White Star" players kept till the end of the game. First quarter Wisła Can-Pack won 25:16.

In the first minute of the second quarter Wisła Can-Pack players made 3 fouls, so first points in this part of the game were socred by Magdalena Skorek from ROW team. Anke De Mondt scored 3 points for Wisła Can-Pack in the second quarter. In the 5th minute of the second quarter Wisła Can-Pack had advantage 10 points over ROW. For 4 minutes before of the second quarter end Petra Ujhelyi and then Ana Dabović scored for Wisła Can-Pack. ROW coach Kazimierz Mikołajec asked time out. After short break Alexis Rack scored for ROW. For Rack's points answered Nicole Powell. Second quarter was won by Wisła Can-Pack 13:6 and after two quarters of the game the result was 38:22 for Wisła Can-Pack.

After the main break Milka Bjelica scored for Wisła Can-Pack, Sybil Dosty answered the same for ROW. In this part of the game Wisła Can-Pack made bigger the advantage and won third quarter 20:10.

Fourth quarter started with the result 58:32 for the "White Star" team. Wisła Can-Pack had huge advantage and probably therefore in the defense game Wisła Can-Pack players played relaxed and not concentrated. The last part of the game ROW Rybnik won 24:22, but the game was won by Wisła Can-Pack Krakow 80:56.

Next game Wisła Can-Pack will play vs Good Angels Kosice in the 8th round Euroleague Women Group C game. Game on Wednesday, 30th November 2011 at 7.00 p.m. in Kosice (SVK).

 Wisła Can-Pack Kraków - KK ROW RYBNIK 80:56
(25:16, 13:6, 20:10, 22:24)

Wisła Can-Pack: Phillips 18, Bjelica 11, Dabovic 10, Powell 10, Czarnecka 9, Kobryn 8, De Mondt 6, Krężel 4, Pawlak 2, Ujhelyi 2, Śnieżek 0.

KK ROW: Rack 14, Harris 9, Dosty 8 (10 zb), Skorek 7, Fitz 4, Radwan 4, Suknarowska 4, Gawor 4, Rickeviciute 2, Morawiec 0.

(RobertS)