Dove – Mars 84-62: With amazing Ragland Spanoulis’ team takes third place in the Basket League

The d did not allow it to appear competitive and prevailed at home with 84-62, securing third place in the Basket League, in view of the third round. Definitely fifth the Thessalonians. Well… a comfortable afternoon had the Dove in the closed “A. Papandreou”. Vasilis Spanoulis’ team won Mars 84-62 , in a match for the 21st Basketball League race. This was the 14th home team victory in the league, which “locked” third place with 35 points. On the contrary, the Thessaloniki team has 32 points and is in fifth place. The winners’ first scorer was Joe Rugland with 23 points (11 assists) while 14 points had Elijah Mitru-Long and 12 Nemanja Danguditch. For Mars Vassilis Toliopoulos had 14 points, Ronnie Harrell had 13 and Ismail Sanogo 10 points. The Dove began the showdown loudly and taking advantage of Mars’ failure in the three-point (1/8 in the first half) managed to take a two-digit lead, which lasted until half-time (42–32). In the second half Mars managed to reduce to 47–43 to 23–1 but Vassilis Spanoulis’ team with a 6-0 streak restored the difference to a two-digit number (53–43), to close the quarter with the hosts to +12 (63–51). Finally Mars proved to have no powers for better and the Dove with a partial score of 21–11 in the fourth quarter easily reached victory with the final 84–62. The quarter: 21–13, 42–32, 63–51, 84–62