Wisła Can Pack

Milka Bjelica scored 18 points and had 14 rebounds (double-double). Photo: Krzysztof Porębski.

In the second round on the Euroleague Women Wisła Can-Pack defeated in Vidnoje Spartak Moscow Region 74:62. Milka Bjelica scored 18 points and had 14 rebounds (double-double). This is second Wisła Can-Pack Kraków victory in Euroleague Women.

Wisła Can-Pack Kraków stayed unbeaten in Euroleague Women Group C with an impressive 74-62 road win over last season's runners-up Spartak Moscow Region Vidnoje. Wisła Can-Pack built a comfortable first-half lead and then pulled further clear in the third quarter, ensuring a late rally from the hosts came to nothing. After an even start to the game, a Paulina Pawlak three-pointer highlighted a 9-2 Wisła Can-Pack run late in the first quarter that saw them begin to edge clear, taking a 15-8 lead.The score was 19-12 by the end of the first quarter.

Spartak scrapped to stay in the game throughout the second period, but a late 8-0 burst, capped by Petra Ujhelyi's lay-up saw Wisła Can-Pack take a 42-28 bulge to the locker rooms. Any hopes Spartak had of getting back in the game ended in the third quarter when their shooting went cold and Wisła Can-Pack took advantage, pushing the advantage past 20 when Ujhelyi's jump-shot made it 58-37.Sparta&K showed plenty of pride in the final quarter, outscoring Wisla 25-16, but it was too little, too late, to get anything from the game.Milka Bjelica led Wisla with 18 points and 14 rebounds while Erin Phillips had 15 points and Nicole Powell 10.Candice Dupree and Jelena Skerovic had 12 points each for Spartak with Sonja Petrovic, Irina Osipova and Rebekka Hammon adding 10 apiece. Spartakmissed all 11 of their three-point attempts.

Spartak Moscow Region - Wisła Can-Pack Kraków 62:74
(12:19, 16:23, 9:16, 25:16)

Wisła Can-Pack: Milka Bjelica 18, Erin Phillips 15, Petra Ujhelyi 10, Nicole Powell 10, Paulina Pawlak 8, Anke De Mondt 6, Ana Dabović 5, Katarzyna Krężel 2, Agnieszka Śnieżek 0, Joanna Czarnecka 0.

Spartak Moscow Region: Candice Dupree 12, Jelena Skerović 12, Rebekka Hammon 10, Sonya Petrović 10, Irina Osipova 10, Nika Baric 4, Evgenia Belyakova 2, Marina Kuzina 2, Jelena Milovanovic 0, Tatiana Korovushkina 0, Ksenia Tikhonenko 0.

Courtesy of: www.fibaeurope.com

(RobertS)