Partizan overcome Red Star in basketball derby

BELGRADE - Partizan Belgrade beat arch-rivals Red Star 78-77 (16-21, 22-20, 18-21, 22-15) late Thursday in Round 9 of the Serbian Basketball Superleague.

In front of 5,000 spectators at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, Red Star had the lead until the very end, when Novica Velickovic won the derby for Partizan with a buzzer beater.

Tanjug file photo, T. Valic