86-75. Casademont cuts Valencia’s streak and moves away from relegation

Zaragoza, Mar 26 (EFE).- Casademont Zaragoza beat Valencia Basket at the hands of a great Christian Mekowulu and ended the four-win streak that the ‘taronja’ team had accumulated, allowing them to put a distance of four wins on the descent and see how his threat decreases significantly.

The Nigerian center catapulted his team to victory with a great performance and finished the game with 25 points, 9 rebounds and a PIR of 36, but it was also a choral victory because the rest of the team effectively accompanied the African.

In addition to clearly moving away from the dangerous positions in the standings, the victory over the Levantine team entails the option of thinking about fighting to reach the European competition since last season the top twelve teams played it.

The Aragonese team, with the victory against one of the teams from the upper area, confirms its good moment, which has led it to win five of the last seven games it has played, which has allowed it to make an important leap in the standings up to the point of changing the objective of avoiding relegation for that of playing continental competition.

The first quarter had a lot of rhythm, with both teams trying to score quickly and with a great success from the owners of the field who managed 73% of the shots from the field, of which 18 points were in the paint and, even so, did not It helped them to go ahead in the electronics with an important advantage as it might seem (24-22).

In the second set, the success rate decreased but the visitor did not grow, so the situation on the scoreboard did not change excessively, since Casademont Zaragoza compensated for this loss with a good defense against a Valencia that put the ‘rojillos’ attacks in the most trouble as well It shows that they went to rest with ten losses, six in the second act.

The equality was also maximum after the refresh time with continuous basket exchanges with Christian Mekowulu for the locals and Bojan Dubljevic for the visitors, competing in hits.

Porfirio Fisac’s team saved the best for the last quarter in which Mekowulu continued to uncover the jar of essences, well seconded by Marcel Ponitka. The pivot’s success pushed his team and made the differences that had been meager throughout the game begin to grow, reaching a maximum of 12 points (77-65) with four minutes to go.

Casademont Zaragoza knew how to handle the rent well against a Valencia that wanted to but couldn’t. It was the night of Mekowulu, who achieved the best numbers for him since he arrived in Zaragoza, and for his team. EFE

– Datasheet:

86- Casademont Zaragoza (24+14+20+28): Jovic (6), Sant-Roos (-), Yusta (11), Mekowulu (25), Hlinason (5) -starting five- Wright (10), Jessup (8), Ponitka (12), Mara (2) and Simanic (7).

75 – Valencia Basket (22+14+19+20): Radebaugh (4), Hermansson (2), Puerto (7), Webb (-), Dubljevic (15) -starting five- Claver (14), Pradilla (4 ), López-Aróstegui (5), Chris Jones (14), Evans (4) and Rivero (6).

Referees: Martín Caballero, Esperanza Mendoza and Héctor Báez. Webb (m.30) and Hlinason (m.40) were excluded by personal

Incidents: match corresponding to day 24 of the League played in the Príncipe Felipe pavilion played before 5,778 spectators.