107-92: Surne Bilbao starts with a firm step against Kids&Us Manresa

He Surne Bilbao The Endesa League began with a convincing victory in Miribilla against the Kids&Us Manresa (107-92) in a good game in attack for Jaume’s team Ponsarnau against a rival who was diminished in the interior game and who lacked physicality and success in key moments to put the locals in trouble.

Darrun Hilliard (19 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists) and Tryggvi Hlinason (12 and 8) led an excellent choral performance by a Surne Bilbao with six players with over ten points, among whom they shone frey and Normanswith 14 each.

On the part of the Manresa team, always competitive despite the final difference and the losses of the centers Oriola and Allen due to physical problems, they were Nick Ogenda (17 points), Lukasz Kolenda (16) and Rafa Villar (9 and 5 assists) those who posted the best numbers.

The locals entered the game better, taking oil from the superiority of Vautier in the painting. Diego Ocampo’s men had a hard time adjusting their defense and it was after 9-2 that they stopped the bleeding and kept the pace even.

The Bilbao team maintained the lead on the scoreboard in a first quarter of great pace and poor shooting success by both teams, a handicap that further hindered the ‘men in black’.

From the hand of Rafa Villar and Ongenda Manresa even took the lead midway through the second quarter (26-27, m.15), an advantage that was a mere mirage and found an instant local reaction with two triples of Krampelj and Hilliard that once again put Ponsarnau’s team ahead.

Another triple Hilliard In the last play before the break it was 44-38, wider than the balance between both teams suggested.

Surne gave the final acceleration in the second half. After this irregularity in the first twenty minutes in the third and second quarters, those of Ponsarnau They raised the score to 63 points.

The locals soon surpassed the ten (62-49, min.25), but Manresa did not lower their arms while they could and after pushing the score to 66-62, they lacked the courage and physicality to put in more trouble a rival who used efficiency and experience to score with a triple of frey over the third quarter horn.

Surne cleared up any doubt at the start of the last quarter and stretched the lead to 17 points (88-71, min.35), leading the final stretch to an exchange of baskets no longer relevant to the final result.