EKAT CONQUER EUROPE – AGAIN
- Updated: April 14, 2019
UMMC Ekaterinburg retained the Euroleague Women title with a 91-67 win over Dynamo Kursk.
In an all-Russian final in Sopron, the champions were led by 18 points and 8 rebounds from Courtney Vandersloot and a MVP performance from Brittney Griner who added 16 points, 10 boards and 4 blocks.
The victory was overshadowed by an injury to Kursk’s Breanna Stewart with the WNBA MVP potentially missing next season after a suspected Achilles tear sustained late in the second quarter after scoring a team-best 12 points.
But the result also confirmed Alba Torrens as the first Spanish player to win EuroLeague Women for a fifth time. She also won with Perfumerias Avenida (2011) and Galatasaray (2014) – as well as twice previously with UMMC in 2016 and 2018.
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Earlier in the evening, ZVVZ USK Praha took third place with a 64-53 triumph against host club Sopron.
Photo: FIBA
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