Venados Basketball takes the first of the series against Pioneros

Deers Basketball defined the game in the third period to beat 94-87 Pioneers of Los Mochis in the first of the series held at the Lobodome.

With this, the Buenos Aires team took an important step towards the play off phase.
This Wednesday, May 15, both squads will meet again Mazatlan at 8:15 p.m. . Venados has nine victories and six defeats in this second half, and Pioneros with six victories and nine defeats.

The game

From the opening whistle, Venados and Pioneros did not stop shooting and it was precisely the visiting team that went ahead with a two-point basket by Rapihael Putney thanks to the ball won by Miles Carter on the kickoff.

Pioneros had a five-point lead (7-2), with a triple by Amauri Hardy in the first period, but Venados closed the gap and got closer to 5-7 with a three-point shot from Guero, Jeff Ledbetter and then the goalkeepers tied it with a basket by Terrence Thompson. After a tug of war, Mazatlán finally won the period 24-22.

Second period

Despite being down, Pioneers They did not give up and with great performances by Nigel Hawkins, Antohony Allen and Gabriel Vázquez, they managed to turn around and won the period 21-18 to go into halftime with a 43-42 lead.

Ledbetter was the most outstanding for Venados in the first two quarters with nine points and for the Pioneers, Jared Frame added 16 points.

Last quarters

Already beginning the third period, Mazatlán turned the score around 47-43 by adding five unanswered points and Terrence Thompson’s triple stood out. Amauri Hardy and Miles Carter They failed on several occasions and that helped Venados to add.
Mazatlán took a nine-point lead (28-19 in the third period.

In the fourth and final game, Pioneros won 25-24, but it was not enough.
Canasteros For Venados Basketball, Ruan Marques Miranda had a great night and with 26 points he was the best. For Pioneros de Los Mochis, Jared Frame finished with 25 points.

Graduated from the Bachelor of Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa from the 1991-1996 generation. He began journalism in 1996, in the now defunct newspaper El Sol del Pacífíco. He started covering the police section and three months later he was transferred to the sports section where he remained for 28 uninterrupted years. When the newspaper EL DEBATE arrived in Mazatlán in 2000, he joined as a sports reporter and today serves as editor and state sports coordinator. He has covered the Caribbean Series, finals of the Mexican Pacific League, Marathons, triathlons, Motorcycle Week, Independence Relays, as well as the games of the home team, the Venados de Mazatlán, in baseball, and Mazatlán FC, in soccer. . Because of his expertise, he covers and writes about all sports.

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