Hapoel Holon downed Rasta Vechta 88-81 as Lester Medford starred for the purples to improve their Basketball Champions League record to 2-1 in group play. Adama Sanogo, Medford and Claudell Harris all scored for Holon while Armann Franklin and Tommy Kuhse countered for Rasta Vechta, but the purples took a 44-39 advantage into halftime.

Matt Lewis and Justin Edler-Davis pushed the Germans into the lead but Medford and Shahar Amir along with Sanogo and Harris kept Predrag Runic’s team in front as they closed out the win. Medford scored 23 points, Sanogo added 17 points and Harris put in 15 points in the victory while Edler-Davos scored 13 points and Kuhse scored 12 points in the loss.

Head Coach Predrag Krunic reflected on the win, “I know the atmosphere here and there are a lot of fans so we had to come ready to play in this type of situation. We played a good game and Vechta is good team but we were able to take win with some of our fans here as well. We had to be ready to play defense and it took time for us to get into the rhythm but we did a good job.”

Lester Medford also spoke about the victory, “The most important thing was that it was a good team win, we played well on defense and rebounded the ball and when we play like that it’s great. We are taking it one game at a time, get to practice and then we will try to get another win.”