Pro­fes­sion­al bas­ket­baller John­ny Hamil­ton's Fener­bahce Beko fell to its first de­feat of the sea­son on Wednes­day in the Turk­ish Eu­roleague af­ter be­ing edged by CS­KA, 78-77 in over­time af­ter the scores were tied, 69-69, at the end of reg­u­la­tion time.

The T&T cen­tre saw lim­it­ed min­utes in the de­feat and al­though he did not score any bas­kets, pulled down three re­bounds in the hard-fought match-up which saw Fener­bahce nar­row­ly trail­ing, in the open­ing two quar­ters, 10-12 in the first and 31-32 at the half.

In the sec­ond half, Hamil­ton's unit which was led of­fen­sive­ly by guard Nan­do de Co­lo of France with 21 points and shoot­ing guard Amer­i­can Jarel­ll Ed­die (18), man­aged to outscore CS­KA, 20-17, to gain a 51-49 lead at the close of the third pe­ri­od.

How­ev­er, their op­po­nents did not go away and launched a come­back in the fourth quar­ter and to lev­el the scores at 69 when time ex­pired.

The match-up re­mained in­tense in­to the ex­tra pe­ri­od but its was CS­KA adding nine points com­pared to Fener­bahce's eight, to seal the close one-point win, its sec­ond in three rounds of match­es. In round one, CS­KA suf­fered a 76-66 loss to Barcelona and re­bound­ed in the sec­ond round to de­feat Mac­cabi Tel Aviv, 76-72.

Fener­bahce al­so has two wins thus far this sea­son, top­ping Cr­ve­na zvez­da (77-63) and Anadolu Efes (80-71), re­spec­tive­ly, in the 18-team com­pe­ti­tion. It sits in sec­ond place in the stand­ings be­hind un­beat­en Zal­gris af­ter three rounds. Hamil­ton showed up on both ends of the court against Anadolu Efes scor­ing 18 and grab­bing sev­en re­bounds but it was not to be this time around.

How­ev­er, he and his team­mates will be aim­ing to re­group in round four in the Eu­roleague, sched­uled for to­mor­row (Fri­day) with Fener­bahce meet­ing Bay­ern Mu­nich. Then on Sun­day in round four ac­tion in the Bas­ket­ball Su­per League, Hamil­ton and his team will face off against Gaziantep.