Both semi-final matches, which are played on the basis of two wins, start tonight at 19:30, and the hosts of the first matches are the better placed teams from the regular part of the season, who will also be the hosts of the eventual champions for placement in the finals.
Namely, the Lions ended the regular season in first place with a score of 20-2; Jumper was second with a score of 18-4, Čelik was third with 16-6, as much as the Eagles had in fourth place.
Čelik, however, was better in the duels against the Eagles, so they took the third place, and the Eagles took the fourth place.
In the first part of the season, the women from Zenica won 61:39 in Zenica, while the Eagles won 73:59 in the second half of the season.
With the victory in Zenica against Jumper (77:75), the Eagles have already defended the BiH Cup trophy this season – which they have won for the last five seasons, and now they are also defending the BiH title. champions, who have won the last three seasons, or a total of four times in the last five seasons.
Jumper and Čelik registered one victory each in the championship city derbies. At the beginning of February, Celik won 73:66 as the host in the 16th round, while Jumper won 69:58 in the first part of the season.
Jumper, however, was better in the final match of the BiH Cup for the area of Zenica-Doboj Canton and, then, kicked Čelik out of the further competition, in which they reached the final and lost to Eagles.
In this season, the Lions won both duels against the Eagles in the championship matches – in the first, in the middle of December last year in the 9th round, they celebrated in Banja Luka with 56:51, and about 10 days ago, in the 20th round of the regular part, and on their own ground with a minimum of 61:60, which is a guarantee that this duel will be very interesting and uncertain.
(Vijesti.ba / FENA)
