Basketball champions OCS Swans Gmunden put up with the bitter 49:56 defeat in Klosterneuburg (with a miserable shooting yield) excellently and sent laggards Fürstenfeld home with a 106:63 (46:35) pack on Sunday. The third quarter was particularly impressive, in which the “basket hunters” from Traunsee scored 33 points. Toni Blazan once again stood out as an exemplary team player, not only scoring 20 points in front of 1,158 visitors in a brilliant mood, but also shining with eight assists and seven rebounds.
“That was very solid from us, we also hit 44 percent of the three-pointers – so no comparison to the previous week,” said CFO Harald Stelzer, who was made to click his tongue by two legionnaires: the Icelandic Orri Gunnarsson was the top scorer with 25 points (” a machine”), Trey Moses recorded no fewer than 18 rebounds.
550 fans in the Wels Raiffeisen Arena celebrated the first home win of the season for their Flyers, who clearly had the upper hand against the Traiskirchen Lions with 83:65 (43:34). Even the illness-related absences of Elvir Jakupovic and Starlin Inoa Gil couldn’t stop the trade fair city team.
“It’s extra fun in front of a backdrop like this,” said captain Christian von Fintel, who had special praise for Chris Ferguson (he picked 15 balls under the basket). Coach Sebastian Waser was also satisfied: “We implemented the game plan well from the start.”
This also applied to youngster Dejan Kovacevic: The 19-year-old collected 16 points, making him his team’s second-best scorer. Only the German legionnaire Radii Caisin was even more accurate (23).
The OCS Diamond Ladies Wels also experienced success at the start of the Superliga. Lisa Ganhör, who had 21 points and six assists, and her colleagues beat Vienna United 72:65 after extra time.
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