Polish League eighthfinals, Games 2-3: April 5-10
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The first round of the Polish League playoffs finished without any upsets, sending the best four teams through the early playoff round and into the quarterfinals, where they will face the top four teams from the regular season standings. Regular season champion PGE Turow will meet Bank BPS, which was the only team to sweep its pre-playoff series by ousting Kotwica in two games. Defending champion Prokom Trefl Sopot will face AZS Koszalin, which bested SPEC Polonia 87-70 in the deciding game of their series as George Reese scored 22. Anwil will take on Polpak S.A. Swiecie, which dismissed Energa Czarni Slupsk 74-57 in Game 3 of their series behind Bobby Dixon’s 17 points. ASCO Slask will battle Atlas Stal in the remaining quarterfinal series. Stal saw off a spirited challenge from Gornik Walbrzych 89-80 thanks to 22 points from Wojciech Szawarski to win that best-of-three series.
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| Record | Team | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | | 2 | Atlas Stal (5) | 87 | 92 | 89 | | 1 | Górnik (12) | 63 | 94 | 80 | | 2 | Polpak (6) | 74 | 64 | 74 | | 1 | Energa Czarni (11) | 80 | 58 | 57 | | 2 | Koszalin (7) | 95 | 76 | 87 | | 1 | SPEC Polonia (10) | 74 | 86 | 80 | | 0 | Bank BPS (8) | 80 | 67 | X | | 2 | Kotwica (9) | 83 | 78 | X |
| Pre Playoffs round games | | Game 1 | Atlas Stal vs. Górnik | 87-63 | April 2 | | Game 1 | Polpak vs. Energa Czarni | 74-80 | April 2 | | Game 1 | Koszalin vs. SPEC Polonia | 95-74 | April 2 | | Game 1 | Bank BPS vs. Kotwica | 80-83 | April 3 | | Game 2 | Górnik vs. Atlas Stal | 94-92 | April 5 | | Game 2 | Energa Czarni vs. Polpak | 58-64 | April 5 | | Game 2 | SPEC Polonia vs. Koszalin | 86-76 | April 5 | | Game 2 | Kotwica vs. Bank BPS | 78-67 | April 7 | | Game 3 | Atlas Stal vs. Górnik | 89-80 | April 9 | | Game 3 | Polpak vs. Energa Czarni | 74-57 | April 9 | | Game 3 | Koszalin vs. SPEC Polonia | 87-80 | April 10 |
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