Bengawan Solo Knight Completes Hangtuah Jakarta 84-68 At The Second Meeting Of IBL 2025

JAKARTA - Kesatria Bengawan Solo completed the revans over Hangtuah Jakarta by winning 84-68 in their second meeting in the 2025 IBL match which was held at GOR Ciracas Jakarta, Thursday night, after previously losing in Solo.

Milos Pejic's cold hand, who is a former coach of the Indonesian Basketball national team, was able to avenge Efri Meldi's narrow defeat in Solo in February.

Abraham Wenas and his friends managed to take the lead twice in this match, namely in the first round 51-38 after Hangtuah took the lead at the start of the match, and in the second half when the home team came back to take the lead.

The prestige is superior in long-range shots. They scored 10 tripoins from 30 attempts, inversely proportional to Hangtuah who was only able to score 5 out of 20 tripoin attempts.

Reporting from ANTARA, local Kesatria player Andre Rorimpandey scored the most tripoins, 5 out of 8, which made the total 15 points only from bow fire.

Travin Thibodeaux scored the most scores for Kesatria with 18 points and 12 rebounds, Michael Anthony 17 points, and William Artino recorded double-double twin numbers for points and rebound 15-15, and Abraham Wenas added 10 points.

Hangtuah with two foreign players who have just not been able to stem the Kesatria attack. They trailed 13 points (38-51) at halftime.

The latest foreign player Hangtuah Shabazz Muhammad immediately performed a duet with Rakeem Christmas as a starter and scored 20 points and 15 rebounds, although he had to struggle to penetrate the strong security defense which made him only able to enter 7 of 22 shots.

Hangtuah was actually able to rise at the beginning of the second half, even taking over the advantage before the third quarter ended. The team, which is synonymous with purple, was able to make point 21-6, changing its position to 57-59.

But unfortunately the momentum was released in the fourth quarter where coach Wahyu Widayat Jati's team were only given the opportunity to score 9 points, and Kesatria won until the end of the match.

Captain Hangtuah Diftha Pratama, who shined against Kesatria in Solo, has now failed to score points in 22 minutes of playing time. Meanwhile, Januar Kuntara, who only had an average of 3 points per game during the competition, scored 18 points with a 88 percent field goal in the painting area.

Another Hangtuah player who scored double digits of points was only Rakeem Christmast who made 14 points and 9 rebounds.