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The Utena Juventus team (6/13) recovered after losing in Šiauliai and on Saturday night they beat the basketball players of Alytus Dzūkija (9/5).
Juventus won at Alytus with the result 92:76 (24:26, 20:22. 25:12. 20:16).
After this victory, Juventus ranked third in the tournament table. Dzūkija, in turn, suffered his first failure after two consecutive victories and is currently in ninth place. On Wednesday, the residents of Alytus easily managed Panevėžys “Lietkabelis”.
Defenders Bryantas Crawfordas and Vaidas Kariniauskas led Utena’s team to victory at Alytus. The American played one of the best games of the season and scored 21 points, bounced 5 balls and made 6 assists and became the most useful player on the team with 25 points.
V. Kariniauskas led the game for Utena’s team, which scored 19 points and added 7 assists. In the second half of the match, under the opponents’ basket, center Mindaugas Kupšas began to dominate, scoring 21 points and adding 6 points.
The first part of the game belonged to the hosts. Dzūkija scored 48 points in the first two quarters, allowing opponents to score 44.
However, Žydrunas Urbonas’s army began to improve the game in the second half of the match, where they already had a 9-point lead after the third quarter.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the intrigue at the home stadium of the Alytus team began to fade, as the guests also counted the 14-point lead, and could not resist and return to the match “Dzūkija” more seriously. At the start of the last minute of the game, Alytus’ team was nine points behind, but Utena’s team scored seven points without responding and achieved an easy victory.
Dzūkija: P. Marinelli 11 and G. Staniulis after 11, A. Jomantas 9, Kristupas Žemaitis 3 (5 repetitions, comp., 6 res.).
“Juventus”: B. Crawford 21, M. Kupšas 21, V. Kariniauskas 19.
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