She returned to her “home” and… broke the pomegranate in this season Heart!
After seven consecutive away games, due to the material damage caused to its stadium after the recent killings floods in Thessaly, the team of Nikos Papanikolopoulos returned to “Yiannis Bourousis” and took its maiden victory in this year’s Stoiximan Basket League, beating 84-68 of Lavrio for the 8th matchday of the championship.
The first scorer for the winners was Shibert with 17 points, while closely followed by Smith and White with 12 points each. For Lavrio, which fell to 3-5, stood out De Julius with 16 points.
The match:
With her “home” as an ally and the world that was at her side, the Carditsa entered the match very strongly and spearheaded Buchanan, leading 13-5 in 4′. With consecutive three-pointers by Thorton and DeJulius, the Laurel narrowed the gap to a basket (13-11), before the hosts responded with the same “coin” with Siebert and Klassen for 21-14 in the first period.
The team of Nikos Papanikolopoulos continued to easily find the way to the opponent’s basket in the second period as well. In fact, combined with their amazing defense, the home team went on an impressive 16-0 run in five minutes, shooting the difference to +20 and 39-19 at 17′! Castaneda and Moore gave offensive “breath” to the guests, reducing to 17 for the 46-29 in the first half.
The scene was similar in the third quarter, with the home team keeping the difference at high levels until the middle of the period. However, with a burst in the last three minutes, Lavrio closed out the quarter at -10 (62-52), giving new interest to the match. In the fourth and final period, Karditsa not only withstood the counterattack of the visitors (72-65), but also with a partial score of 12-3 in the last four minutes of the match, they won with final score 84-68.
The quarters: 21-14, 46-29, 62-52, 84-68.
See here the statistics of the match.
Source: Sport Fm
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