This Thursday the Libomenor men’s U-15 series “B” basketball tournament was launched and the San Roque quintet began the event by beating the team of Juan Pablo II of Santa Cruz by 80-28, in the second match. lost to La Salle de Oruro 61 – 69; This Friday morning he will play with the Real Roboré team (Roboré). The matches take place at the Guadalquivir Coliseum.
With the participation of six teams this Thursday morning, the “B” series of the Bolivian Minor Basketball League (Libomenor) in the U-15 men’s category was launched and the San Roque Tarija team began by winning the first match of the tournament of the national event, beat the quintet of John Paul II of Santa Cruz by 80 – 28, the partials were 24 – 7, 7 – 17, 20 – 4 and 29 – 0, a match where the home owners made the difference in the first, third and last quarter.
The matches take place at the Guadalquivir Coliseum and the teams from Yugoslavia (Cochabamba), Real Roboré (Roboré), Juan Pablo II (Santa Cruz), La Salle (Oruro), Aremis (El Alto) and San Roque (Tarija) participate. The championship will end this June 8th.
THE MATCH
The players from the Tarija team were the ones who scored the first double shot of the match, then converted a three-point shot, in the first minute of play, they scored 5 points; The homeowners became the protagonists on the playing field.
For their part, the visitors tried to organize their game and two minutes into the first quarter, they made the first double shot; but the locals continued to play based on speed, they made single, double and triple shots and in the end they ended up winning 24 to 7.
In the second quarter of the match, the visitors returned to the playing field with the instruction to win and began to score points, just as the locals maintained their pace of play, it was a round-trip game; The fourth was for the visitors by 20 to 17 and in the overall score of the game until the end of the first half it was for the home owners by 31 to 24.
SECOND TIME
In the third quarter, the San Roque team took the rival quintet ahead and won by 20 to 4; The players of John Paul II’s team from Santa Cruz only scored 4 points during the 10 minutes of play.
The last quarter, again the protagonists were those led by coach Freddy Ortega, (San Roque), they consolidated the victory, winning the quarter by 29 to 0; They controlled the game and consolidated the victory by 80 to 28 points.
SAN ROQUE LOST WITH LA SALLE DE ORURO
In the second game of the day, the San Roque team played with the La Salle de Oruro quintet, the visitors won the game 69 to 61; The partials were 21 – 18, 15 – 19, 17 – 12 and 16 – 12.
The players of the Tarijeño quintet sought to win the match, however, at times, they could not complement each other during the game; They lost the first quarter by 18 to 21, a triple was the difference.
In the second quarter, the home team won by 19 to 15 and lost the third quarter by 12 to 17 and the last by 12 to 16. However, the attitude of the players during the game was good, they never gave up the pressure , only security was lacking in the launches.
