Tre Mc Lean scored 19 points and Luis Valera added 16 as Guaiqueríes de Margarita beat Spartans Distrito Capital 90-77 and went ahead 1-0 in their SPB 2023 round of XNUMX series.
A first quarter of 31-19 predicted the dominance that the insulars would have in this start of the postseason at the La Asunción Gymnasium. By half time the lead was 18 points (58-36).
Returning from the locker room, the Spartans showed a much cleaner game, with fewer blinks, but even so they could not dominate the set and reached the final 10 minutes trailing 80-56.
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The closing of the commitment was a procedure in which Pablo Favarel allowed himself to use his bench and the capitalists took the opportunity to make up the result a bit.
In addition to Mc Lean and Valera, Donals Sims also stood out for the tribe with 15 points and Luciano Guerra with 13.
For the Spartans, who actually billed more in the paint and better capitalized on losses, the best was José Rodríguez with 17 counts and eight boards.