Bulgarian League, Game 18: January 24, 2007 Lukoil Academic Sofia held on for first place at the end of the first phase of the regular season in the Bulgarian League with a 69-95 road win at Yambol. Academic finished with a 17-1 record, the same as CSKA Sofia, but took first place thanks to a tiebreaker. The teams will already meet on Friday, February 2, in the opening game of the second round-robin phase. Todor Stoykov scored 23 and Donta Smith had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead Academic. Georgi Davidov added 16 on 5-of-10 shooting, Lamont Jones scored 11 and dished 9 assists and Gjorgji Cekovski tallied 10 points in 17 minutes. Ninoslav Tmuzic paced Yambol with 24 points and 14 rebounds. CSKA thrashed Rilski Sportist 74-108 on the road behind 17 points from Greg Danielson. Brad Traina added 15 and Jordan Bozov 14. Levski earned third place with an 11-7 record after a 65-117 win over Spartak MVR with seven players scoring in double figures led by 17 apiece from Stanislav Slaveykov and Veselin Veselinov. In other games, Spartak Pleven crushed Dunav 106-61 and Balkan topped Cherno More IG 86-77. LAST GAME GAME 18 - January 24, 2007 Day Match Result Jan. 24 Spartak MVR vs. Levski 65-117 Jan. 24 Rilski Sportist vs. CSKA Sofia 74-108 Jan. 24 Spartak Pleven vs. Dunav 106-61 Jan. 24 Balkan vs. Cherno More IG 86-77 Jan. 24 Yambol vs. Lukoil Academic 69-95 NEXT GAME GAME 1 - February 2-3, 2007 Day Match Feb. 2 Lukoil Academic vs. CSKA Sofia Feb. 3 Levski vs. Balkan Feb. 3 Cherno More IG vs. Spartak Pleven - (Men First A-1, second phase) - STANDINGS TG W L P+ P- 1 Lukoil Academic 18 17 1 1768 1307 2 CSKA Sofia 18 17 1 1718 1347 3 Levski 18 11 7 1538 1448 4 Spartak Pleven 18 10 8 1514 1459 5 Balkan 18 10 8 1374 1386 6 Cherno More IG 18 9 9 1479 1447 7 Yambol 18 7 11 1367 1530 8 Rilski Sportist 18 5 13 1410 1534 9 Dunav 18 3 15 1240 1528 10 Spartak MVR 18 1 17 1178 1600 Thursday, January 25, 2007 Euroleague.net