Ikaros Chalkidas beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek League 25th day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted and beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek Basket League 25th day. Ikaros Chalkidas wanted the victory in order to have chances to avoid relegation. With that victory Ikaros Chalkidas is in the bottom of the league table with other two teams but Kolossos Rodou lost any chances to enter the play offs. For Ikaros Chalkidas Ivan Aska finished the game with 26 points and 9 rebounds while Dominique Sutton had 14 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and Giannis Gagaloudis had 17 points and 9 assists. For Kolossos Rodou Taylor Smith finished the game with a double double, 14 points and 12 rebounds, while Bryan Hopkins had 28 points with 6/7 field goals, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
Quarters' scores: 25-21, 42-43, 69-62, 96-88.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 15, Woodall 3, Aska 26, Sutton 14, Gagaloudis 17, Spanos 5, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 16, Bempis, Douzidis, Persidis.
Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 5, Car 11, Matsamas, Georgalis, Hopkins 28, Smith 14, Stefanidis 2, Simpson 5, Kakaroudis 16, Pantic 2, Danas, Nadjfeji 5.

Kolossos Rodou beat Panionios for Greek League 22nd day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and defeated Panionios for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Kolossos and Panionios have played 20 games for Greek League and Panionios counts 5 wins in a row in total of 12 wins. Kolossos Rodou dominated first half when Panionios was poor in field goals (~30%). In the third quarter Panionios only maanged to lower the difference to 9 points but was still bad in field goals. The home team won the fourth quarter and broadened the difference of its victory to 11 points, 75-64. Bryan Hopkins, Mladen Pantić and Kostas Kakaroudis debuted with Kolossos Rodou in the Greek League. Hopkins didn't score, Kakaroudis had 5 points, 2 rebounds and Pantić had 5 points and 2 rebounds. Aggelos Tsamis was the best player of the home team with 17 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. Taylor Smith had 10 points and 7 rebounds. For Panionios Errick McCollum was the top player with 26 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists but was alone.
Quarters' scores: 20-14, 38-28, 57-48, 75-64.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 3, Car 8, Matsamas, Georgalis 8, Hopkins, Smith 10, Stefanidis 10, Tsamis 17, Kakaroudis 7, Pantić 5, Danas, Nadjfeji 7.
Panionios: McCollum 26, Duvnjak, Carter 12, Milbourne 6, Athanasoulas 2, Batis, Skordilis, Langford 8, Michel, Simtsak 4, Kyritsis, Saloustros 6.

Kolossos Rodou signed Bryan Hopkins

Kolossos Rodou signed Bryan Hopkins. The third addition for Kolossos Rodou this week, after Plantic and Kakaroudis. The 30 years old American point guard was playing in Israel for Maccabi Rishon. Second player from Maccabi Rishon that came to Greece this season, after Lazeric Jones of KAOD. Before Israel Hopkins was in Belgium for Antwerp and Liege, and before that in Ukraine for Halychyna.