Sports Digest: Greens beat AEK to make series 2-1

BASKETBALL: Panathinaikos won Game 3 of the Basket League semifinal series beating AEK 81-72 at home on Thursday, despite trailing 52-44 early in the second half. Game 4 will take place with AEK as the host on Monday.

SOCCER: The tussle among players of Panathinaikos and PAO in the Super league play-off game that was abandoned on Wednesday resulted on Thursday in a four-game ban on the league’s top scorer Marcus Berg of Panathinaikos, and three games off for Evgen Shakhov, Amr Warda and Jose Angel Crespo of PAOK and for Ousmane Coulibaly of Panathinaikos.

SOCCER: Iraklis has not been granted a license to complete in next season’s Super League for financial reasons and runs the risk of getting relegated, with Levadiakos taking its place.