BASKETBALL
Wednesday, 04 December 2024 20:48
Our Fenerbahçe Opet Women’s Basketball Team, which started the season with the FIBA Super Cup championship, defeated Çukurova Basketball Club Mersin 65-64 in the 29th Presidential Cup match and brought the Presidential Cup to its museum for the 13th time. With this result, Fenerbahçe Opet won all the cups in 2024. The yellow-dark blue team won the EuroLeague Women and FIBA Super Cup in Europe, and won the league, cup and President’s Cup in Turkey. The yellow-dark blue team completed the year 2024 with 5 cups.
The cup rose in the hands of our players
Minister of Youth and Sports Osman Aşkın Bak and Turkish Basketball Federation Hidayet Türkoğlu presented their cup to our team, which came to the ceremony wearing championship t-shirts. Our team experienced great joy as the cup rose in the hands of our players.
Match MVP Emma Meesseman
TBF Board Member Serdar Karagöz gave the award to our player Emma Meesseman, who completed the match with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists and was selected as the “Most Valuable Player” of the match.
At the end of the match, our players went to the stands and celebrated the cup joy with our fans.
Our Fenerbahçe Opet Women’s Basketball Team, which won the championship in the ING Women’s Basketball Super League and the ING Women’s Turkish Cup last season, and ÇBK Mersin, which finished the ING Women’s Basketball Super League in second place last season and was the finalist of the ING Women’s Turkish Cup, will face each other in the 29th Presidential Cup match. came.
The match played at Ankara Sports Hall was followed by our Secretary General Burak Çağlan Kızılhan and our Board Members M. Kemal Danabaş, Fethi Beijing and Alper Alpoğlu.
The Queens of the Basket, who started the match with Allemand, Sevgi Uzun, Williams, Charles and Meesseman, finished the first 4.5 minutes behind 8-12 and our Head Coach V. Garnier called a timeout. Returning from the time-out, the Queens of the Basket scored consecutive points with Sevgi and tied the score at 15-15, taking the lead with T. Charles’ three-pointer. (18-15) Our team maintained its superiority in the later part of the quarter and passed the period 22-21.
Our team, which was effective in the second quarter with the duo of Sevgi Uzun and Tina Charles, brought the score to 27-23. Bringing the score to 32-27 with Alperi, Fenerbahçe Opet widened the gap with Messseman and Olcay and went to the locker room with a 40-32 advantage.
Fenerbahçe Opet Women’s Basketball Team started the third quarter with Emma Messseman’s baskets and increased the difference to 15 points with Olcay, and entered the final period with a 51-42 advantage. ÇBK Mersin started the fourth quarter with a 5-0 run and brought the score to 51-47. For our team, which ended the series with Williams, Meesseman took responsibility at critical moments and brought the score to 57-51. Our team was ahead 63-53 in the last 4 minutes with Meesseman, and brought the score to 65-61 with Charles. Our team maintained its superiority in the remaining seconds, won the match 65-64 and claimed the cup.
Quarter scores:
1st Quarter: 22-21
2nd Quarter: 18-11
3rd Quarter: 11-10
4th Quarter: 14-22
