Tonight (Saturday), Bnei Herzliya continued its wonderful form from the last few weeks and recorded an impressive home victory at the Jubilee Hall 64:77 over Hapoel Holon, with the help of a wonderful game by Quinton Hawker who led the list of scorers for the host with 17 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.
Over the past few years, an intriguing sporting rivalry between the purples and the whites has been building up, which reached its peak last season when the two teams battled against each other in the playoff finals and cup semi-finals and shared the spoils, and tonight's matchup was also hot and productive, when the teams wrote another chapter in their rivalry in a wonderful game full of twists and turns.
The first half was completely under the control of the cup holders who enjoyed a wonderful shooting night from Chris Babb, who sniped from every corner and led them to a promising lead of 16 points.
With the champion, it seemed that the head was already in the next game in Bosnia and not in the Jubilee Hall.
Into the second half, the Purples came up with completely different energies and got back into the game thanks to good minutes by Marvin Jones on both sides of the field and Sean Dawson who stood out against the former and kept his teammates busy for long minutes, but all of these were not enough against the advances of Conniton Hawker who prevented a turnaround in the final minutes.
After the match, Holon will go to Bosnia, where on Tuesday it will be hosted by Igokaa for a critical match in the play-in phase of the FIBA Champions League that can guarantee it qualification to the next stage. The cup holder will be hosted by Maccabi Tel Aviv, in an intriguing battle in the quarter-finals of the State Cup.
CJ Harris.
He is back in good shape, photo: Oded Karni
Chris Babb vs. Dawson, photo: Oded Carney
Quinton Hawker.
Ballet, photography: Oded Karni
Van Vliet.
In front of Dalton, photo: Oded Karni
Babb vs. Ragland.
This evening, photography: Oded Karni
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