Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding Women’s Basketball Team hosted Sopron Basket in the first match of the EuroLeague Women quarter-finals. Our team won the fight at the Metro Energy Hall, where our fans showed great interest, with a score of 82-62.
Fenerbahce, who started the quarter-finals with a win, will be the guest of Sopron in the second match of the series on Friday, March 17 at 20:00 CET. The team that will achieve two wins in the play-off round will have its name written in the Final-Four.
Our Secretary General Burak Çağlan Kızılhan, our Board Member Mustafa Kemal Danabas, our Fenerbahçe Beko Men’s Basketball Team players Tonye Jekiri and Dyshawn Pierre, and our team’s sponsor Yükselen Çelik Chief Executive Officer Barış Göktürk and Göksel Stainless Steel Board Chairman Emin Selim Akgül also followed the match.
Our team; Breanna Stewart, Olcay Çakır Turgut, Alina Iagupova, Kayla McBride, Emma Meesseman took the field with their five.
The first points of the match came from Ezi Magbegor in Sopron Basket. (0-2) Our team got its first hit with Alina Iagupova (3-2). Finding a rhythm in this episode with Fegyverneky and Yvonne Turner, the guest team took the lead by 3-10. Fenerbahce, who reacted with Courtney Vandersloot and Kayla McBride in the section where the margin was up to 7 points in favor of the visiting team, reduced the gap to 2 points (10-12). Capturing the 16-14 lead with 3 minutes to go, our Women’s Basketball Team increased the lead up to 5 points with Alperi Onar, who came from the sidelines, from behind the three-point line. (19-14) When Emma Meesseman also shared the score, our team did not give its opponent an easy scoring chance and finished the first 10 minutes ahead by 22-19.
In the first quarter, which started with guest Sopron Basket’s attack, the lead was reduced to 1 with Yvonne Turner’s layup. (22-21) Responding to their opponent with Satou Sabally’s 4-0 streak, Fenerbahçe Alagöz Holding Women’s Basketball Team brought the score to 26-21. Leading the first five minutes of the quarter by 33-28, our Team entered the locker room with a 40-35 lead.
At the end of the first half, Breanna Stewart was our team’s top scorer with 11 points.
Starting the third quarter with a 6-0 series, the visiting team took the lead 40-41. Fenerbahce, who used the back of the three-point line very well in the first minutes with Kayla McBride, found 46-41. Maintaining the leading score in the section where Satou Sabally also stepped in, our team led 51-48 into the last five minutes. The winner of the quarter, the last part of which was quite contentious, was our Team with a score of 62-58.
Fenerbahce Alagöz Holding Women’s Basketball Team, which increased the lead to double digits (71-59) with Alina Iagupova and Breanna Stewart in the final period, which we started with the hit of Emma Meesseman, achieved a 78-61 advantage in the section where the opponent also stopped the pass attacks. Fenerbahce, who made the difference with its scorers, won the fight 82-62, where it did important things both in defense and attack, and went ahead 1-0 in the series.
Our score distribution: Stewart 20, Meesseman 15, Sabally 13, Iagupova 13, McBride 12, Vandersloot 4, Alperi 3, Olcay 2.
To access the statistics of the match click here.
Photos: Ahmet Hopyar, Burak Saltik
