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Turkey mauls China at worlds

Source: Agencies | September 4, 2010, Saturday | Print Edition

OGUZ Savas scored 20 points as host Turkey trounced China 87-40 on Thursday in its final group game at the world championship.

Host Turkey, which had already won Group C, had a 20-0 scoring run to lead 39-13 at the break. Omer Asik's slam-dunk gave Turkey a 41-point lead in the final seconds of the third quarter. Semih Erden widened the gap to 47 points with 50 seconds to go at the end of the last quarter.

Turkey (5-0) plays the fourth-place New Zealand of Group D in the knockout stage in Istanbul.

China (1-4) reached the next round in Istanbul on points differential ahead of Ivory Coast and Puerto Rico. Russia (4-1) finished second and Greece (3-2) third.

Turkey center Ersan Ilyasova of the Milwaukee Bucks had 18 points and 12 rebounds, and Asik had 17 points and 13 rebounds.

Turkey outrebounded China 44-33 in a game which Turkey scored 24 points from turnovers. The host shot 41 percent from the free-throw line, while China missed its only chance. Sun Yue scored 15 points for China. No other Chinese players hit more than nine points.

Also, Serbia overcame 32 points from Luis Scola to beat top-ranked Argentina 84-82.

Serbia and Argentina played arguably the best game of the tournament, with the lead changing 12 times before Aleksandar Rasic sealed Serbia's victory by making four free throws in the last 11 seconds.

Scola, Argentina's captain, sank two free throws with 38 seconds left to make it 77-77.

But Serbia forward Dusko Savanovic hit a big 3-pointer with 18 seconds remaining to put his team in front. Savanovic led Serbia with 19 points and Nenad Krstic added 18 as Serbia's deeper bench carried the day.

Scola's 32 points means he has scored 30 or more for a fourth straight game. He is now Argentina's all-time leading scorer at the worlds with 357 points. Ernesto "Finito" Gehrmann scored 331 points in the 1967 and 1974 editions.

Serbia and Argentina now face regional rivals: the Serbs playing Croatia and the Argentines facing Brazil. Serbia and Croatia were part of former Yugoslavia, which won a record five world titles.
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