Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv completed 3-0 sweep over Maccabi Givat Shmuel and will p[lay in the plaoff finals for the 10th year in a row. In the third semi final game played in Yad Eliyahu Maccabi won 96-64.
Givat Shmuel took a 10-9 lead but Maccabi ran 14-0 and led 23-16 at the end of the first quarter. Givat Shmuel came back and at the half Maccabi’s lead was only 37-33. Then came a stunning thirds period which Maccabi won 39-11 to make the score 76-44. At the end a 32 points win, the seventh over Givat Shmuel this season.
Maccabi scorers: Saffar 18 pts, 3 assists, 3 rbds, Goree 13 pts, 8 rbds, 4 assists, Halperin 12 pts & 3 assists, Vujcic 10 pts, 4 rbds & 3 assists, Burstein 9, Lewis 8, Udrih 7, Shelef 6, Bluthenthal 6, Sharp 4, Sheffer 3. Charles Minlend led Givat Shmuel with 22 pts.
Ironi Nahariya took a 2-1 lead in the other semi final with a 69-64 win over Galil Elyon in Kfar Blum.
