San Martín de Curuzú Cuatiá added two visitor points at Monte Caseros last Sunday when they beat San Lorenzo 83-68, thus continuing as leader of group 1. Agustín Insaurralde was the figure and the scorer of the game with 39 points and 10 bounces.
With a run of 8-0 in favor of San Martín, the game began at the CEF No. 3 stadium. Very focused on the game, he was clear on offense and sure of himself when it came to defending Carlos Miño’s team. Despite shortening the distance to 4 points, the locals were still imprecise and it was too difficult for them to break the rival defense. Finally the first boy went to the visitor 18-11.
In the second quarter, with three-pointers by Yardin, Tagle and Pérez Díaz, San Lorenzo led the scoring. But the re-entry of Agustín Insaurralde, who already heralded a great game adding 18 points until the second quarter, and the contributions of Damián Peruchena gave the game parity until the last minutes, ending 35-34 for the locals.
In the third quarter, Carlos Miño’s team again imposed their defense and, with 7 points from Damián Peruchena plus two new triples and a double from Agustín Insaurralde, they once again took a 10-point lead. However, San Lorenzo took advantage of the errors of the visit and returned to shrink at the end 48-53.
Despite achieving equality in the first minutes of the fourth quarter through Samaniego and Brun, San Lorenzo was going to suffer from Santo’s experience and hierarchy. Between Franco Aguirre, Damián Peruchena and the extraordinary performance of Insaurralde overshadowed the efforts of Esteban Godoy’s team.
The undefeated in the 6 games played holds Santo in first place in group 1 of the Pre-Federal Basketball Tournament, waiting for two consecutive home games: Antorcha and Unión de Goya.
St. Lawrence 68: Brun 15, Perez Diaz 15, Samaniego 16, Zambon 4, Yardin 10. FI. Tag 7, Duprat Govi 1. DT: Stephen Godoy.
St. Martin 83: Augustin Insaurralde 39, Damian Peruchena 18, Matthew Vianna, Franco Aguirre 4, Sebastian Gomez 6 FI. Emmanuel Martinez 4, Gonzalo Cotto Oria 2, Francisco Romero 10. DT Carlos Mino.
Partials: 11-18 35-34 (24-16) 48-53 (13-19) 68-83 (20-30)
Estadio: CEF N ° 3
