He escaped “suicide” and celebrated a great victory with Prometheus the Lavrio!

Even with drama, Lavrio defeated Prometheus 89-84 in the eastern suburbs for the 16th matchday of the Stoiximan Basket League and with a 5-11 record took a “breather” in the rankings, remaining in the penultimate place and “cutting” from Patrinos the consolidation in third place.

The players of Kosta Mexa reached +19 at the start of the third period, but in the fourth they received many runs from the Patrinos who reduced to -3, but they could not do anything more in the last minutes against the cooler hosts in the critical points.

Leading the winners were Gondikas with 21 and Muratos with 17 points. For the Patrinos, Popes stood out with 14, Reynolds with 12 and Stephens with 11 points.

The match

With the impressive Muratos in the first minutes, Lavrio reached 5-3 and 9-5, “hitting” more inside the opponent’s racket. Flaten’s consecutive three-pointers brought +6 to the effort of the Patrinas to find solutions to the opposing racket. A 5-0 run by Ilias Papatheodorou’s players made it 17-16. Cowan tied it at 19-19 and, after back-to-back draws, Zara’s 3-pointer made it 26-23 late in the first period.

The consecutive three-pointers of Patrina at the beginning of the second period brought +3 for the visitors. There, Godikas “armed” and with seven consecutive points made it 33-29. Jones’ 3-pointer cut it to 37-35, but a 6-0 run by the home team brought the Americans +6 and the most rebounds by Costa Mexa’s players. With a new run by Godikas, Lavrio reached 47-40 and he made it 51-41 at the end of the half.

A 4-0 at the start of the third period brought +14 for the hosts and a new 4-0 +15 for the Athenian team that did whatever it wanted to the poor defense of Prometheus under their basket. Murato’s three-pointer brought +15 again and Flaten +17. Prometheus’ Americans did their best to close the gap, but a personal 4-0 run by Kavvadas made it 74-57 at the end of the quarter.

A 4-0 Lavrio run to start the fourth period made it +21 for the home team, who were finding solutions with their Americans for +17 to +21 in that period. Kofi reduced to -15, reaching 4-0 the streak of the Patrinas and that of the Pope reduced to 81-69 for the 7-0 streak of the Achaeans that put Prometheus in the game. Thornton outscored his team 83-69.

Prometheus responded with a 5-0 run for -9 at 1’58” and Stephens at 85-77 at 1’45” and Papas reduced the score to 85-81 with a 6-0 run for the Patrinos. Thornton missed a three-pointer, but Moore got the rebound and Zaras made it 87-81 with a layup. With two shots by Muratos, the score became 89-82 and the missed shots of Patrina in the last seconds gave the victory to the home team with 89-84.

The quarters: 26-23, 51-41, 74-57, 89-84

The statistics