The game was marked by an incident that significantly conditioned Peñarol: the expulsion of American John Flowers.
It was only five minutes when Flowers elbowed Iván Loriente in the face and went well ejected from the match.
Camilo dos Santos
John Flowers and Luis Santos
The shortlist made up of Andrés Bartel, Alejandro Sánchez Varela and Enrique Ferreira took a few moments to review the play on the monitor and decreed the disqualification of the American player.
The match was even, Biguá won by one (11-10) and Peñarol got out of control and was penalized for two technical foulsone of them to his coach Pablo López.
The player went to the locker room, took his cell phone and wrote the following message on his Twitter account: “That’s bullshit” (“This is bullshit!”), Flowers said hotly as his teammates continued to play the game. But then he decided to delete the post, in the midst of strong criticism from aurinegros fans.
The tweet that Flowers deleted
The Maryland native, who played as a teenager with NBA star Kevin Durant, was turning 33 on Monday.
