Serbia, Greece End Acropolis Event On A High

Greece, Serbia and Lithuania have each impressed at the 23rd Acropolis-Eurobank Tournament this week - a warm-up event for next month´s EuroBasket.

The Serbians and Greeks ended the tournament with victories on Wednesday night.

Serbia defeated Russia 70-59 in their last contest to finish 2-1.

On top 32-28 at half-time, Dusan Ivkovic´s Blues held Russia to just four points over the next 10 minutes in building a 49-32 advantage and they rode the strong third-quarter effort to triumph.

Serbia were just one of 10 from three-point range but they got a terrific offensive effort from center Nenad Krstic, who finished with a game-high 24 points.

Timofey Mozgov had 15 points in defeat for Russia, who are playing this summer without point guard JR Holden and EuroBasket 2007 MVP Andrei Kirilenko.

In the second game, Greece defeated Lithuania 75-73.

Greece boss Jonas Kazlauskas, working against the national side he once coached, had to engineer a come-from-behind victory as his troops trailed 59-50 with 10 minutes remaining.

Antonis Fotsis finished with 17 points to lead Greece while Lithuania got 15 apiece from Linas Kleiza and Ksistof Lavrinovic.

Marijonas Petravicius and Darjus Lavrinovic each poured in 13 in defeat.