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The thirds of the UCAM Murcia traveled to Ventspils to face the ninth day of the Basketball Champions League.
With the discards of Soko and Doyle, the university students looked for the eighth win in European competition against a Latvian team that was hurrying their options to enter the second phase (3V 5D).
Those of Javi Juárez -Kloof, Oleson, Rojas, Rudez and Tumba- started the match very failing.
Two minutes would take to get the first points for the Murcia.
However, the great form and accuracy of Damjan Rudez allowed visitors to obtain the first advantages of the game (10-13).
The Latvians, with several casualties in their squad, based their game on the outside section.
Quick attacks and many triples that dislocated the university defense.
In the hands of Jakovics (5 points and 3 rebounds) the locals left the score equalized (13-13) after the first ten minutes of play.
The intensity with which the UCAM Murcia had started the game had suffered a downturn in the last moments of the first set.
Neither the entry of Alberto Martín to the track nor the superiority of the interior served to activate those of Juarez.
A technique about the Terran coach put Ventspils ahead after three minutes played in the second period.
However, with the entry of Oleson (8 points) and Kloof improved defensive and offensive performances.
The Murcia gave back to the game and got an income above ten points.
The cold Latvian weather seemed to have wet Ventspils gunpowder that could not find a way to score.
Finally, Aaron Johnson reduced the difference to six points at the end of the first part (24-30).
With the rebound and the rhythm of the game under university dominion, only the bad percentages of shot allowed to Ventspils to stay alive in the encounter.
The Latvians came back from very good dressing rooms and lengthened the partial (12-0) to even the match.
Only Rudez managed to score for the UCAM Murcia in a room where the points shone by his absence (32-34 four minutes to finish the third quarter).
However, a partial 2-10 led by sniper Brad Oleson allowed the Javi Juarez back to distance themselves in the light in a period where the team had gone from less to more.
A basket on the horn of Janis Berzins left the game in a fist with ten minutes left (43-46).
In a game with very poor shooting percentages (36% and 37%) and so equal, the group that best managed the last minutes would be the one that took the cat to the water.
The last period started with a triple by Anthony Beane that put the Latvians above.
However, Charllo Kloof (10 points), with two consecutive triples, returned the advantage to college students who quickly got into bonuses.
With 59-59 on the scoreboard was reached a stretch of the game of inaccuracy by both teams.
More than two minutes of play without any of the two sets scored.
However, a triplozo Kloof, excelso in the direction of the game in the last quarter, put the meeting very expensive for college.
Finally Rudez scored a triple with 16 seconds remaining that allowed UCAM Murcia to get the 8th victory in the Basketball Champions League (61-67).
A very messy and irregular match where Rudez (14 points), Oleson (13 points and 16 points) and Kloof (13 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists) were the best in Murcia.
Source: UCAM Murcia CB
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