Petrolina AEK was the winner against the Youth Union of Paralimni with 69-54, in a match that took place in the context of the 15th match of the Men's OPAP Championship A 'Division. The home team played without Hines. Both coaches gave enough time to all the basketball players to participate. Tyrell Biggs was the leader of the match with 13 points (1 three points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist).
ENP started the game with four points from the Blacks and Washington, taking a 4-0 lead in the first two minutes. AEK then went up, managing to be ahead 5-30 until 10:6, while two and a half minutes later Larnaca brought the difference to six (15-9). The hosts reduced with three points of Papadopoulos to 15-12.
Thomas with two points reduced to 15-14 at the beginning of the second ten minutes, with AEK responding with seven consecutive points (five Biggs, two Pigrkam) bringing the score to 22-14 to 12 ′ while the guests increased the difference in the score at thirteen points up to 15 ′ (30-17). The hosts tried to push, but AEK was better and then increasing the difference to eighteen by the end of the half with the score being 39-21.
The first two minutes of the third period were balanced with AEK scoring five points (Tomas three points, Dasic two) and ENP four (Papadopoulos three points, Blakes one). The difference in the score rose to 23 points by 25 ′ with the score reaching 51-28 while at the end of the season AEK was ahead with 57-37.
The game started again balanced with the two teams reaching 63-42 until 33 ′. Then the "purple" went up and reduced to 65-48 until 35:20 for AEK to come with four points from Trisokka and Dasic and bring the score to 69-48. In the last four minutes of the match, ENP scored six more points with Blakes, leading the score to the final 69-54.
TEN MINUTES: 12-15, 21-39, 37-57, 54-69
IN. Paralimni (Nikolas Papadopoulos)
Thomas 10, Pyrillis, Blakes 11, Thomas 4, Washington 7, Papadopoulos 9 (1), Hannoun 3 (1), Ray 10, Zantis.
Petrolina AEK (Linos Gabriel)
Tomas 8 (2), Brezets 7, Dasic 8, Petrovic 6 (2), Panteli 7 (2), Palalas 6, Pigram 8, Biggs 13 (1), Sizopoulos 2, Koumis, Trisokkas 4, Stylianou.
Source: SigmaLive