Biguá against Malvín and Urunday Universitario against Peñarol will try to ratify their favorites at the start of the quarterfinal series of the Uruguayan Basketball League 2021.
The games are played on the Biguá court and the series are the best of three games.
Early in the morning, Biguá receives Malvín. When they met in the regular phase, Biguá won 95-91.
The Pato de Villa Biarritz was the fourth of the regular phase while Malvín defeated Hebraica Macabi 2-0 in the play-in, who stood up to him despite an accumulation of absences due to covid-19 positives.
Argentine Hernán Laginestra’s team had a devastating first half against the youthful and renewed Malvín, who is in his first season without Pablo López as coach, after 16 seasons.
Santiago “Pepo” Vidal led the game with speed and explosion and scored 14 points with 4 assists.
American Donald Sims, foreign sensation of the season, went into the long break as a scorer with 16 points.
Aaron Fuller was the leading beach scorer with 9 points.
The match
First quarter: Biguá 30-30
Second quarter: Biguá 54-37
Third quarter:
Final:
See the full match statistics.
In the second hour, Urunday Universitario will play against Malvín. The scholar has been a semi-finalist in the League twice and has spent a long time under the command of Héctor Da Prá.
Peñarol went from less to more in the season, something logical considering that it is a new team that Edgardo Kogan had to polish match by match.
The aurinegro comes from eliminating Goes 2-1 in one of the most even play-in series.
In the regular phase, Urunday Universitario beat Aurinegro 85-78.
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