Regular Season Round 11: Spartak SP - Spartak-Prim. 96-104 2OT (25-26, 15-18, 24-16, 12-16, 10-10)

Date: January 28, 2012
Seventh ranked Spartak-Prim. won a double-overtime thriller edging 6th ranked Spartak St.Petersburg by eight points 96-104 on Saturday night. The game took place in St.Petersburg. But the guests from Vladivostok were better at the end. Spartak St.Petersburg was trailing by 4 points at halftime but managed to get 4-point lead after three quarters before a 16-12 charge of Spartak-Prim., which allowed them to tie the game at the end of regular time. They were better in double-overtime eventually winning that period 10-10. Spartak-Prim. forced 20 Spartak St.Petersburg turnovers. Spartak St.Petersburg was plagued by 34 personal fouls down the stretch. U.S. Virgin Isl. Forward Cuthbert Victor (196-83, college: Murray St.) orchestrated the victory with a double-double by scoring 22 points and 11 rebounds. American guard Torey Thomas (180-85, college: Holy Cross, agency: Interperformances) contributed with 19 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists for the winners. Four Spartak-Prim. players scored in double figures. American point guard Patrick Beverley (185-88, college: Arkansas) answered with 38 points (!!!), 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals and Israeli guard Yotam Halperin (196-84) added 14 points (was perfect 10-for-10 from the free throw line !!!) in the effort for Spartak St.Petersburg. Both coaches used bench players in such tough game. Spartak-Prim. (5-4) moved-up to fourth place, which they share with Lokomotiv. Spartak St.Petersburg lost third consecutive game. They dropped to the seventh position with five games lost. Spartak-Prim. will have a break next round. Spartak St.Petersburg will play again on the road against Spartak-Prim. (#5) in Vladivostok and it may be a tough game between close rivals.
Top scorers:
Spartak SP: P.Beverley 38+7reb+5ast, Y.Halperin 14+3reb+3ast, V.Dragicevic 12+3reb, L.Mavrokefalidis 8+7reb+3ast, A.Kashirov 8+2reb+2ast, V.Keyru 5+8reb+1ast
Spartak-Prim.: C.Victor 22+11reb+1ast, K.Nesterov 20+1reb+1ast, T.Thomas 19+5reb+5ast, E.Baburin 14+2reb+1ast, D.Polokhin 9+2reb+2ast, M.Krivosheev 6+2reb
gschID: 151215


SPARTAK SP (Coach: Zdovc, Jurij)
  Field Goals Rebounds   Fouls   Blocks  
# Name min 2pm-a 3pm-a ftm-a off def tot ast cm rv st fv ag to pts rnk
12 Beverley, Patrick 45 10-18 0-0 18-20 4 3 7 5 5 13 4 0 0 5 38 47
9 Halperin, Yotam 38 2-8 0-2 10-10 2 1 3 3 2 7 1 1 0 4 14 15
21 Mavrokefalidis, Loukas 33 4-9 0-0 0-0 5 2 7 3 5 3 2 0 0 6 8 7
11 Likhodey, Valery 29 0-1 1-3 0-0 3 0 3 0 4 0 0 2 0 1 3 0
8 Kashirov, Anatoly 14 2-6 0-0 4-4 1 1 2 2 3 2 0 0 0 4 8 3
23 Keyru, Victor 35 1-2 0-3 3-4 6 2 8 1 4 3 0 2 0 0 5 10
14 Zozulin, Aleksey 21 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 5 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
20 Dragicevic, Vladimir 15 5-8 0-0 2-2 2 1 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 12 10
13 Zupan, Miha 11 1-1 0-1 2-2 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 4 3
4 Strelnieks, Janis 4 0-1 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2
15 Antipov, Pavel  DNP - Coach's Decision
10 Sergeev, Pavel  DNP - Coach's Decision
Total   26-55 1-9 41-44 24 10 34 16 34 32 7 6 0 20 96 0


SPARTAK-PRIM. (Coach: Livanov, Boris)
  Field Goals Rebounds   Fouls   Blocks  
# Name min 2pm-a 3pm-a ftm-a off def tot ast cm rv st fv ag to pts rnk
11 Thomas, Torey 43 3-6 3-6 4-6 3 2 5 5 2 6 2 0 0 8 19 19
41 Victor, Cuthbert 40 5-12 0-2 12-14 3 8 11 1 4 8 0 0 0 0 22 27
21 Nesterov, Konstantin 28 5-7 2-4 4-5 0 1 1 1 3 5 1 0 0 0 20 20
4 Baburin, Evgeni 28 2-4 2-7 4-5 1 1 2 1 5 3 3 0 0 2 14 8
17 Karaulov, Sergey 11 0-2 0-0 0-0 3 2 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
77 Polokhin, Denis 30 3-5 0-5 3-5 2 0 2 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 9 7
34 Savenkov, Aleksandr 22 1-1 0-0 0-0 3 3 6 2 3 1 3 2 0 1 2 12
15 Denison, Sean 11 3-5 0-0 0-1 2 0 2 2 5 2 0 1 0 1 6 4
63 Golyakhov, Aleksei 11 1-5 0-1 2-2 1 0 1 1 5 2 0 0 0 2 4 -4
31 Krivosheev, Maxim 9 3-6 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 6 4
24 Pavlov, Aleksandr 6 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
33 Zelenskiy, Gannadi 5 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2
Total   26-53 7-26 31-42 19 19 38 15 32 34 11 3 0 15 104 0



Terms:
Field Goals :  2PM-A  (2 point Field Goal made-attempts)     3PM-A  (3 point Field Goal made-attempts)   FTM-A (free throws made-attempt)
Rebounds : OFF (Offensive)  DEF (Defensive)   TOT  (total)
Fouls : CM (Committed)  RV (received)
Blocks : FV (In Favor)  AG (Against)
Other terms : MIN (minutes)  AST (assists)  ST (steals)   TO (Turnovers)   PTS (points)  RNK (ranking)