Jelinic, Buvinic and Zrnic combine for 19 as Nexe down Vojvodina
Nexe have managed to introduce themselves and SEHA - Gazprom League’s seventh season to their fans in the best possible way defeating Serbian champions Vojvodina Novi Sad 33:28.
Team from Nasice is dealing with significant issues on line player position with neither Mrdjenovic nor newly-acquired Sipic being eligible to play tonight. However, they opened the match in a great way scoring three goals in a row to put them 7:3 up after opening part of the first half. During first 30 hosts were able to keep the gap open with Stankovic making an interception a few moments before the half-time buzzer bringing guests to -4 (15:11). Key moment of the match were opening 10 minutes of the second half when Horvat’ players enlarged the gap to 10 (23:13) finally sealing the deal in this one. After that coach Horvat decided to give some of his younger players a chance to prove what they can allowing guests to narrow the gap a little until final 33:28.
Marin Jelinic scored 7 goals for Nexe, only one more than right-handed duo Vedran Zrnic and Marko Buvinic. Kristian Pilipovic had 9 saves in 40 minutes he spent on the court. Speaking about Vojvodina, Milan Jovanovic was dictating the tempo of their attacks in this one scoring 8 goals in only second half.