Basketball | Helsinki Seagulls’ winning streak continues – Pyrinnön’s Antero Lehdosta is the king of Korisliiga triples

Basketball league the leading Helsinki Seagulls stretched their winning streak to eight games when they beat the Loimaa Bisons 89–73.

The Bisons trailed by only nine points in the first quarter. Bisons narrowed to within three points in the second period, but after the third period the away lead decisively increased to 17 points.

Chuba Ohms scored 18 points for the Seagulls and Devante Brooks 20 points for the Bisons.

To Tampere The person behind the effort Antero Lehto became the player with the most three-point baskets in the Korisliiga on Saturday, when Lehto sank two threes at home in a local game against BC Nokia.

BC Nokia, which is second in the standings, won 91–84.

In the previous game, Lehto tied for 1218 in the all-time triples statistics Petri Virtanen with. Virtanen is now the head coach of Joensuu Kataja Basket.

On Saturday, there was only four minutes left in the game when Lehto hit his first shot from behind the arc into the basket. In the style of the great world, the game was suspended for a while at a historic moment.

Now Lehto holds the top spot in the statistics with 1,220 triples. The 39-year-old Lehto has played in the Korisliiga since 2000 for 24 consecutive seasons. With the exception of Pyrintö, Lehto has represented his foster club in the 2006–07 season in Korihai in Uusikaupunki and three seasons in 2020–23 in BC Nokia.

In 2014, at the age of 30, Lehto made his men’s national team debut and made it to Finland’s first World Championships in Spain.

BC Nokia celebrated in the game itself. It quickly rose to a 23-point lead, which Pyrintö reduced to just one point at the end of the third period.

In the last minutes, Lehto had to leave the game covered in blood when the heads of his teammates collided.

Both Gach collected 24 points for BC Nokia and Luther Muhammad Purinno 21.