The Mar del Plata Marcos Mata accumulated 6 points in the victory that his team, Saga Ballooners, obtained over Aomori Wats, by 85-66, in a match belonging to the eleventh date of the League B2 (second division) of Basketball Japan.
The Argentine forward, 34 years old and 2.01 meters tall, scored 2-7 in triples in the 26 minutes that he remained in the playing field.
The former player of Peñarol de Mar del Plata, San Lorenzo and a member of the Argentine national team in the 2014 World Cup in Spain, completed his work with 7 rebounds, 4 assists and one steal, according to the official website of the club located in the Prefecture of Saga.
Thus, Mata completed his third meeting since arriving at the Japanese institution (which leads the classification of the West zone with a 9-2 mark), last August.
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— Saga Ballooners (@SagaBallooners) October 22, 2020
The winning team also featured the Cuban guard Reynaldo García Zamora (former Estudiantes de Concordia and Gimnasia de Comodoro Rivadavia), who finished with a score of 10 points (4-8 in doubles, 2-2 in free), 8 rebounds, 3 recoveries and 2 goal passes in almost 19 minutes.
