In the second quarter-final of Georgian Super League play-off match between “Sokhumi” and “MIA Academy” ended in in favor of “Sokhumi”- 82:78.
Lary Blair scored the most points (22) for “MIA Academy” and Lasha Parghalava (27) for “Sokhumi”. Stefan Miloshevic and Joshua Jackson gathered 18 and 17 points. Miloshevic rebounded 10.
It is remarkable that at the beginning of the third quarter “Sokhumi” had 23-point superiority.
Vaja Kvaratkhelia (head coach of “Sokhumi”): “We know it in advance that we would have a tense match and to my mind Giorgos Ketsilidis is stronger coach than me. But I was sure that my players would succeed”.
Giorgos Ketsilidis (head coach of “MIA Academy”):”I am proud with my club very much and to my mind our sportsmen did well”.
Stefan Miloshevic (“Sokhumi”):” We started well, then our rival showed better basketball but finally we won”.
Josua Jackson (“Sokhumi”):” “MIA Academy” did well in the second round. On Saturday very tense and interesting responsive match is ahead us”.
Davit Imnadze (“MIA-Academy”):” We managed to save the second period and we were very close to victory. Nothing changes today’s match, we have decisive match the day after tomorrow”.
The third match between “Dinamo” and “Olimpi” is underway now.
Rusudan Chumburidze
