The Purple recorded a dramatic loss of 78:72 to Lightceblis and finished the first round of the Champions League home phase in a negative balance (4: 3). • Marcus Foster's 22 points and Richard Howell's double-double were not enough

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Hapoel Holon suffered a dramatic 78:72 loss to Lightceblis tonight (Tuesday) and finished the first round of the FIBA ​​Champions League home run on a four-loss and three wins.

The Purples led until the middle of the third quarter, but were not good enough in the last 15 minutes to keep the score and Zeliko Sakich excelled in the second part of the game and scored 22 points.

Promising new acquisition Angel Delgado was not yet available to Sharon Drucker, and the job was again done by Marcus Foster with 22 points and Richard Howell who was the only one in the fourth quarter to finish with a double-double of 15 points and 13 rebounds, but on Tuesday Klein and Guy Panini are arrested on 6 points and Malakai Richardson contributes 4, it is impossible to win a foreign game in Europe.

The loss in Lithuania complicates the purple in the second round going to foreign matches against Turk Telecom, Dynamo Csari and strong Menersa. Even before that, a foreign game awaits them on Saturday against Maccabi Tel Aviv.