The guests opened the game better and took the lead with 8:0, leading by a maximum of 22:8, so that by the end of the first period BH. the team, on the wings of Kamiah Smalls, reduced the gap to 16:24. The first time they equalized with the result 29:29, then they took the lead with 34:29, and went to the break with a 37:36 lead.
The biggest advantage in the regular part of the match BH. the team had a 42:36 lead at the beginning of the third period, and they ended the third period with a 57:55 lead. At the beginning of the fourth period, they led again with a five-point difference – 60:55, but the visitors turned the game around again with an 11:0 run and took the lead with 66:60.
This was followed again by a period of better play by Bosnia and Herzegovina. of the team, which reached a point behind – 65:66, and Smalls scored one minute and two seconds before the end and tied it again at 69:69, which was the final result of the regular part, so overtime was played.
Bosnia and Herzegovina led 76:71 in overtime, and Jana Guska scored two points one minute and 51 seconds before the end, bringing Bosnia and Herzegovina to the lead. team into a lead of 78:71, which was until then the biggest lead of Bosnia and Herzegovina. team. Anđela Šipka increased the difference to the final eight points with a three-pointer, i.e. 81:73. It was also the first triumph of Bosnia and Herzegovina. team since February 2022 and as many as 21 matches without a win.
Smalls finished the match with 26 points and 13 rebounds, while Dragana Domuzin and Guska scored in double figures with 13 points each and Anđela Šipko with 10 points. Magaly Meynalder led the guests with 16 points.
The Dragons, however, ended these qualifications in the last, fourth place in group A, from which Israel and the Republic of Ireland qualified for the next round of qualifications. Today, in the last match, Israel won away from Ireland with 90:54, so they ended these qualifications without a single defeat.
Group A table: Israel 6-0, Luxembourg 3-3, Republic of Ireland 2-4, BiH 1-5.
(Vijesti.ba / FENA)
