Anna DeForge - The 2006 PLKK MVP

Wisla Can-Pack Krakow team photo of May 3 2006

Anna DeForge in her first year as part of the PLKK league helped her team defeat Lotos Gdynia and was also honored as league MVP. The Polish Wisla Can-Pack Krakow team won the Womens PLKK Championship Series May 3, 2006 beating Lotos Gdynia 72-66. Wisla Can-Pack Krakow team won the championship 4 games to 3 in a best of 7 series.

Game 7 /Series Summary:
Provided by Eurobasketball.com: Wisla finally got revenge for the last year's defeat to Lotos in the championship series. Kara Brown-Braxton (200-C-83, college: Georgia) and Anna DeForge

Anna DeForge, given the PLKK MVP trophy May 3, 2006.

(183-G-76, college: Nebraska), contributed with 15 points each, and Jelena Skerovic (174-G-80) came up with 13, to bring the championship to Wisla, after finishing the regular season with only one defeat and 17 wins. Wisla also has the home-court advantage. They started the series with a win, and ended the same. A pattern was made in between: Game 1 was won by Wisla 88-70, and in Game 2 Lotos came back with a 73-56 triumph. Wisla took the series next to 2-1, and 3-2, only for Lotos to tied right back to 2-2, and 3-3 respectively. At the beginning of game seven the Title was touchable for both teams, but Wisla’s best first halves of the season, put it out of reach for Lotos. They created a gap of 22-13 advantage by the end of the first quarter and widen it even more before the half time break, 41-24. It was hard for Lotos to catch up with them even with high-powered offensive skills of Agnieszka Bibrzycka (184-F/G-82, college: Abilene Christian) and with Rankica Sarenac (202-C-74) braveries. Bibrzycka managed 15 points, while Sarenac put in 20, but the hole that Wisla created in the first half between them and the title was to high to climb.