PAOK Holds Off Visiting Olympiacos in Women’s Professional Basketball

THESSALONIKI, Greece (Interstat) — PAOK edged visiting Olympiacos 69-65 in a women’s professional basketball game Sunday, using a 20-point first quarter and an 18-point fourth to hold off Olympiacos’s late push. Olympiacos scored 12 in the first, 17 in the second, 13 in the third and 23 in the fourth. PAOK scored 20 in the first, 17 in the second, 14 in the third and 18 in the fourth. Olympiacos’s season record is now 5-1, while PAOK’s is 2-2. Olympiacos’s late fourth-quarter rally fell short. Olympiacos had won its previous five games, including a 78-68 victory at 1KS Sleza, an 84-42 home win over Kronos, a 96-68 home win over Baxi Ferrol, a 68-60 win at Amyntas and a 101-67 home win over Panseraikos. PAOK had lost at Panathlitikos, beaten Aris at home and lost at Panathinaikos. PAOK next plays at AEO Proteas Voulas, while Olympiacos hosts CBK Mersin.