Joshua Mc Folly led Tskhum-Apkhazeti to victory scoring 17 points in the third period

In the last seconds of the first half, TSU was winning 43:37. Accompanied by the final siren of the period, Joshua Mc Folly scored a three-pointer and reduced the difference to 3 points for the big break – 40:43. Returning from the break, Mc Folly scored 17 points in the third period. He had 12 points with 4 three-pointers all scored in the last 3 minutes of the period, thus he managed to break TSU eventually.

Tskhum-Apkhazeti won the third period 35:19 and was leading by 13 points before the last period. Joshua Mc Folly only scored 1 point in the decisive period, but he had already done his job. Tskhum-Apkhazeti, coached by Nikoloz Cherqezishvili, is not a team that squanders 13-points leadership in the final period. Tskhumi is an example of fighting spirit in the Super League, and when the advantage was increased to 18 points 5 minutes before the end, the fate of the game was decided. It is true that TSU is quite a fighting team as well and tried to save the game until the last moment, but only managed to reduce the gap and finally lost by 10 points – 84:94 (Statistics).

A hero of Tskhum-Apkhazeti – Joshua Mc Folly scored 28 points in total, while Alexandre Phevadze was the most effective with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Raheem Johnson had 18 points, Giorgi Sharabidze collected 17 points. Quentine Dove had a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Mikheil Chochua scored 19 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds. 

This was Tskhum-Apkhazeti’s 3rd victory in a row, thus the team upgraded from the 10th place to 5th. As for TSU, the university team only won 1 match out of 9 matches in the second round, so the playoffs is not yet guaranteed for them.TSU has 1 match left and it is still unknown what position it will take. It all depends on the other teams, most of whom have 3 matches left in the regular season.