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The UCAM Murcia traveled to Italian lands to face Sidigas Avellino (7-3), second place in the Basketball Champions League group.
The Murcia (9-1), in search of the first place, faced the game with the discards of Oleson and Soko and the drop of Emanuel Cate.
After five consecutive defeats in the national competition, Javi Juarez sought to continue making history in Europe.
Kloof, Doyle, Rojas, Rudez and Tumba were chosen by the visiting coach to start the match.
The first minutes became a constant roundtrip where errors prevailed rather than successes.
Filloy, one of the most prominent in the first leg, started very plugged with two consecutive triples (6 points).
In the Murcia squad was Doyle who assumed the offensive responsibility (also with 6 points) and placed the college students one up (12-13 min.7).
At this point of the game debuted the two recent signings of the visiting team (Dino Radoncic and Luka Mitrovic) who left very good feelings in their first meeting.
A triple from Montenegrin Radoncic and a basket over the horn of Askia Booker put an end to a very irregular first period (16-21).
The errors in the shot of the Murcia accumulated at the beginning of the second quarter, allowing the Italian team a partial 6-0 and forcing Juarez to stop the game.
However, the bookmark side of Booker and Doyle (10 points) turned the scoreboard to put the 24-25 arrived at the equator of the second quarter.
With the fall of Cate the Italians sought to do damage in painting with the physique of Demetris Nichols, one of his best players.
However, the American (1/8 TC) was not successful and Tumba ate ground in the offensive section.
The difference of rebounds (16/11) and the greater Italian defensive intensity marked the small differences in a first part that ended with a draw (32-32).
The step by changing rooms had returned the claw and the intensity to the Murcian set that quickly was placed above.
Sadiel Rojas (8 points) returned to be the competitive soul for the visitors and, along with Doyle (12 points), they put the 36-40 after five minutes.
The American and the Dominican Damjan Rudez added with two consecutive triples that forced the local coach for the match against 6-13 partial.
The dead time served little to an Avellino Sidigas that saw how the artillery of Murcia was activated.
The rent, two minutes to end the room, came to ten for a very solid university group.
0 personal fouls for the Italians, reflecting the lack of intensity, in a third period that ended with 40-50 favorable to visitors.
Three baskets of Avellino marked the beginning of the last period, reducing the difference from 10 to 4 in just 3 minutes and forcing Juarez to stop the match.
However, Mitrovic (8 points and 5 rebounds) appeared at the key moment of the game and with a great pass to Kevin Tumba again distanced the university students up to 8 ahead.
Filloy and Young, disappeared throughout the game, resurfaced to place a partial 7-0 that left the party in a fist to two minutes to the conclusion.
However, the final success of Rudez from the triple and the free throws of Rojas, first for the UCAM Murcia, left the half meeting sentenced to 60 seconds for the final (57-63).
Finally, the Murcia obtained the 10th victory in the Champions League Basketball 57-63 against Sidigas Avellino in a good second part of UCAM Murcia.
Doyle (15 points, 6 rebounds and 17 assessment) and Rojas (12 points, 6 rebounds and 16 assessment) the best in the university.
Source: UCAM Murcia CB
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