Universidad de Concepción extended its streak of consecutive victories to 12and soundly defeated Quilpue Lions 104-68 (57-33) in the first game of the Rojabet final of the CDO+ League by Cecinas Llanquihue.
In the match, played at the Casa del Deporte in the capital of the Bíobio region, college students were vastly superior. Especially in the first quarter (31-12), where they showed their best defensive repertoire, to deny baskets and steal balls from their rivals, running counterattacks, and showing a very high effectiveness in the opposite basket.
The locals made the difficult easy, and scored from all areas of the field, without finding a defensive response from their rivals, unleashing the euphoria of the 800 lucky UdeC fans who were able to enter the gym due to the sanitary restrictions of the pandemic.
Key in the triumph of the Campanil was the movement of his DT Cyprian Nunezwho in the absence of the experienced Evandro Arteaga, gave confidence to Kevin Rubio to exit from boot. And the Puerto Rican responded not only adding 13 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, but also leading the defense against the foreign reinforcement of the Quilpué team, Justin Satchell, whom he practically erased from the field of play.
Y Jerry Evans JR, y Arnold Louis, they shared the coverage of the Spanish Iván Aurrecoecheawho was allowed to score just 5 points against the Quilpue Lions.
in the rival hoop, Evans had 12 points and 9 rebounds; and Louis, triumphed fighting trafficand scoring from all areas of the court, to become the best figure of the set, with 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 recoveries.
In addition, the university students found solutions from the bench, highlighting the figure of the young point guard from Ancudita, Sebastián Carrasco, who scored 17 pointsand had quality minutes, especially on defense.
By the side of the “felines”, there was no clarity. His main figures did not even reach ten points, in an opaque game full of doubts.
Ignacio Carrión with 12, and Daroll Jones with 11 points were the leading scorers of those directed by the Spaniard José Angel Samaniego.
A) Yes, converting 52% of his shots from the field versus his rival’s paltry 39%, the student squad polished their maximum candidate badge to revalidate the title, and won the first set of a series to the best of seven games.
the second game, will be held again at the Casa del Deporte de Concepciónthis Sunday at 9:00 p.m. (LNBChile.tv – CDO+).
