Four times in a row – Cedevita are Croatian champions
Cedevita are continuing with their dominance at the domestic basketball scene – they have won their fourth consecutive national championship trophy and a completed a double crown this season.
Cedevita team (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic)
Nothing new in Croatia. Cedevita are the best team of Croatian national championship once again and they did it by overpowering Cibona in the finals series with 3:2 in victories after triumphing in the decisive fifth game.
The fifth has been anybody’s game all until half time, when the score was tied at 30:30, but then the ABA League finalists stepped up and won the third quarter by 12 points, which gave them the chance to finish the game just as they prefered and celebrate a national champion title once more.
The final score was 78:75 in favour of Cedevita, for which Ryan Boatright dominated the court with 22 points scored. For Cibona, Luka Žorić put in 17.
This is the fourth national championship trophy in a row (and fourth in total) for Cedevita and triumphing in the domestic championship finals, has also given them the double crown, as they have previously already won the domestic cup trophy this season.
Croatian National Championship Finals, Round 5, Thursday, 1.6.2017:
Cibona – CEDEVITA 75:78 (18:15, 12:15, 16:28, 29:20) / * 2:3 in victories
Žorić 17, Reynolds and Šakić 13 | Boatright 22, Bilan 12.
