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Peñarol had a very difficult stop in the Basketball Champions League Americas. For group C, the aurinegro visited Rio de Janeiro, where he faced Flamengo and Instituto. The harvest was one victory and one defeat. With this, and after the two games played last window in Montevideo, Peñarol has won two games and lost two, a mark that is still good considering that two of the three teams advance.
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The best thing for Peñarol was the second game, in which they beat Instituto de Córdoba 89-80. It was an even match; Proof of that is that with two and a half minutes to go before closing, the score was 82-80 for the coalman.
Salvador Zanotta and Lee Roberts were the best men in the aurinegro, not only because of the goalscoring of both, added to the assists of the first and the rebounds of the second, but because they appeared in the hot zone, there where the clock and the score tick and there is to do their best to keep the point. A triple from Salta and a double from abroad gave Peñarol the necessary distance to close the match.
Roberts was the top scorer for his team with 21 goals, followed by Zanotta who scored 18; Charles Thomas, with a good game, scored 17 points and was also important in several sections of the match.
The victory was important for Peñarol for two reasons: first and most important, the point against a direct rival. As they already beat the Cordoba in Montevideo, if they were to be tied at the end of the next window, Peñarol would advance because what breaks the tie are the results between the two.
Furthermore, Peñarol managed to win after being thrashed by Flamengo, who thrashed them by a 56-point difference, 103-47.
