BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points despite poor shooting Friday to lead Germany past Slovenia 76-62 and into the semifinals of the European Championship against Spain.

"We achieved a small sensation no one believed we could do," Germany coach Dirk Bauermann said.

Spain advanced by beating Croatia 100-85 in overtime, with Juan Carlos Navarro scoring the final 12 points of the game. Fran Vasquez scored with 3 seconds left to tie the game at 73 at the end of regulation.

For Croatia, Gordan Giricekof the Utah Jazz had 17 points and eight rebounds, and Roko-Leni Ukic and Marko Popovic added 15 each.

France and Greece will meet in the other semifinal.

Mithat Demirel had 15 points for the Germans, making all of his shots from the floor and going 4-for-5 from the line. Pascal Roller also had 15 and Demond Greene 10. Patrick Femerling grabbed 10 rebounds.

"Winning this game is like getting the gold medal," Germany guard Marko Pesic said.

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Slovenia got 13 points apiece from Sani Becirovic and Primoz Brezec.

Earlier, Lithuania beat Russia 89-78 in a consolation game to qualify for next year's world championship in Japan.

Germany went 11-for-23 from the 3-point range. Slovenia was 6-for-22 and shot only 59 percent from the foul line.

Nowitzki, the tournament's leading scorer and rebounder, went 2-for-8 shots from 3-point range and was 2-for-10 from 2-point range. The Dallas Mavericks star also had nine rebounds.

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