Lithuanian Cup semifinals, February 12, 2011 - Lithuania

May 19, 2013

Lithuanian Cup semifinals, February 12, 2011

The classic Lithuanian duel between Lietuvos Rytas and Zalgiris will also be featured again in the 2011 Lithuanian Cup final, to be played on Sunday. Defending champion Lietuvos Rytas took an easy win in one of the semifinals against Klapeida Neptunas by 84-65. Martynas Gecevicius led the winners with 18 points and Kenan Bajramovic and Steponas Babrauskas helped with 11 each. In the other semifinal, Zalgiris succeeded against Rudupis, but had a harder time doing it since in the end it only won by two points, 75-73. Paulius Jankunas led the winners with 20 points, Marcus Brown had 11 and Trent Plaisted nailed 10.

Defending champion Lietuvos Rytas took an easy win in one of the semifinals against Klapeida Neptunas by 84-65. Martynas Gecevicius led the winners with 18 points and Kenan Bajramovic and Steponas Babrauskas helped with 11 each. The deal was soon falling on Lietuvos Rytas' side as after a 13-7 start, Klapeida had a shy reaction but Rytas still dominated after 10 minutes, 20-17. The second quarter started with a 5-0 for Rytas that sent Klapeida to a four-minute scoring drought. However, that was still not good enough for the defending champs to pull away, as at the break they were only leading by four points, 30-26. After resumption, Klapeida even managed to jump ahead at 33-34, but Khalid El-Amin ressurrected Rytas and the hosts finally managed the first double-digit lead of the game at 55-45. After 30 minutes, the lead was up to 16 points, 63-47. The final period was a mere formality in which Rytas simply increased the lead to a final win.

In the other semifinal, Zalgiris succeeded against Rudupis, but had a harder time doing it since in the end it only won by two points, 75-73. Paulius Jankunas led the winners with 20 points, Marcus Brown had 11 and Trent Plaisted nailed 10. Zalgiris was ahead the whole first half, which came to an end with a 39-34 lead for the Kaunas team. However, Rudupis managed to tie the game at 47-47 in the third period, which was only broken by a 10-0 spurt started by Brown's two straight threes. However, Zalgiris' rival would not lower its guard and was soon getting close again in the last period to 60-58. In the last minutes it all came down to the free throws, With 71-70, Brown hit two attempts and after that, a steal by Plaisted allowed two more points for Zalgiris to break the game open in the last seconds despite the last two points of Rudupis to make the final 75-73.

Semifinals	Final

Lietuvos Rytas

Klapeida
	Lietuvos Rytas

	vs.
	Zalgiris
Zalgiris

Rudupis

Cup Games
Semifinals	Lietuvos Rytas vs. Klapeida	84-65	Feb. 12
Semifinals	Zalgiris vs. Rudupis	75-73	Feb. 12
Final	Lietuvos Rytas vs. Zalgiris	0-0	Feb. 13