Third consecutive victory for Pallacanestro Trieste who beat Umana Reyer Venezia at Taliercio 72-81, achieving the fourth victory in the last five games.
Tenth game over 20 points in the season for the league’s best scorer, Frank Bartley, who scores 21 points in 31 minutes, after finishing with his season-low 6 points in the first leg (his only performance in Italy where it did not go into double figures).
Bartley thus confirms his lead in the scorers classification, ahead of John Petrucelli of Brescia (19.3) and Colbey Ross of Varese (17.7).
7 fouls suffered by Bartley in the Venice race, confirming his second place in the specialty standings behind the leader Colbey Ross.
“Double-double” for Skylar Spencer, who finishes with 13 points and 14 rebounds, equaling the company record in rebounds this season also achieved by the number 6 in the match against Verona on the thirteenth day. There are 5 “double-doubles” made by the center of Trieste this season, leading the overall standings together with Andrea Cinciarini.
Spencer is in second place in the rebounds average (8.2) behind only Reggio Emilia’s Mikael Hopkins (8.5) and leads in the offensive rebounds specialty (3.3 average).
