Rethymno Aegean beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 26th day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 26th day. Ilisiakos wanted the victory in order to avoid the relegation but with a crucial mistake in the final seconds lost the game and relegated in the second division after five consecutive years in the Greek Basket League. Ilisiakos started the game with a 6-0 run and was leading the score in the first quarter. Rethymno Aegean counter attacked in the second quarter and with a 12-0 run took the lead in score. Rethymno Aegean was keeping the lead in the third and last quarter until the end. Ilisiakos took a small lead and was close to avoid relegation but Courtney Pigram made a crucial turnover and lost the ball. Giannis Kalampokis scored and made the score 63-62. Ilisiakos made another turnover and lost the game which led to the relegation in the second division. For Rethymno Aegean Kenny Gabriel was the top scorer with 15 points and 8 rebounds, Luka Drča had 14 points and 7 rebounds, Callistus Eziukwu had 8 points and 9 rebounds. For Ilisiakos Cheikh Mbodj had 22 points and 17 rebounds but he lost crucial free throws in the last minute also Courtney Pigram had 16 points but he made the crucial turnover in the last minute. Panagiotis Kafkis had 16 points and 7 assists.
Quarters' scores:14-18, 32-29, 47-43, 63-62.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 2, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 5, Aggelopoulos 7, Antonopoulos, Kalampokis 12, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 8, Drča 14, Gabriel 15.
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 16, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis, Chatzis, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 6, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 2, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 22, Pigram 16.

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek League 24th day

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek Basket League 24th day. In a very tight game the maximum difference reached 7 points and Panionios won by only three points but with this victory secured the third position in the regular season. For Rethymno Aegean Justin Hurtt was the top scorer with19 points. Callistus Eziukwu had 14 points, 6 points and Luka Drča had 13 points and 7 rebounds. Kenny Gabriel had 9 rebounds but only 3 points. For the winners Errick McCollum had only 8 points so the top scorer was Giannis Athanasoulas had 14 points and 4 rebounds. Vasilis Simtsak had 9 rebounds, 5 rebounds and 2 steals.
Quarters' scores: 16-20, 35-37, 57-55, 64-67.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 19, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 3, Aggelopoulos 6, Wright, Kalampokis 5, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 14, Drča 13, Gabriel 3.
Panionios: McCollum 8, Duvnjak 6, Carter 10, Milbourne 13, Athanasoulas 14, Batis, Skordilis 2, Langford 7, Michel, Simtsak 5, Kyritsis, Saloustros 2.

Nea Kifisia beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek League 23rd day

Nea Kifisia hosted and beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Nea Kifisia played without Tony Crocker who had a knee surgery earlier this week. The home team with high shot accuracy and 14 more rebounds controlled the game, although Nea Kifisia had double turnovers than Rethymno. For Nea Kifisia Giannis Psathas had 16 points and 6 rebounds, Dimitris Tsaldaris had 20 points and Nikos Liakopoulos had 13 points and 8 assists. For Rethymno Aegean had Luka Drča had 14 points, Kenny Gabriel had 10 points and 5 rebounds, Eziukwu had 10 points and 4 rebounds. 
Quarters' scores: 24-14, 43-35, 64-54, 84-76.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 2, Liakopoulos 13, Kompodietas, Sioutis 2, Psathas 16, Garrett 2, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 11, Tsaldaris 20, Adegboye, Kakiouzis 13, Barlos 5.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 5, Kallinikidis 4, Koumpouras 2, Aggelopoulos, Wright 11, Kalampokis 9, Kanonidis, Sinis 8, Latovic 3, Eziukwu 10, Drča 14, Gabriel 10.
 

Aries Trikala beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek League 21st day

Aries Trikala hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basket League 21st day. Rethymno Aegean had won the first round game by only two points. Aries Trikala had 9/10 field goals in the first quarter while Rethymno Aegean had 1/7 so the home team was leading the score with 26-14. First half finished with Aries Trikala leading by 12 points and Rethmyno Aegean having poor accuracy in shots, 6/19 field goals and 4/12 three pointers. Rethymno improved in three pointers in the second half but was still poor in field goals. Besides first quarter all the rest were balanced with partial scores: 14-14, 17-17, 18-18, so the first quarter was the crucial quarter of the game. Chris Evans was the top player of the game and finished the game with a double double 25 points, 12 rebounds. Mike Porrini had 2 points but 5 rebounds and 9 assists. Christos Deligiannis had 11 points with 4/5 field gols and 3/3 free throws. For Rethymno Aegean Damir Latovic had 13 points, Derek Wright 11 points and 8 assists. Kenny Gabriel made another double double with 10 points and 16 rebounds, collecting 14 out of 27 defensive rebounds of his team.
Quarters' scores: 26-14, 40-28, 57-45, 75-63.

Aries Trikala: Evans 25, Perunicic 3, Ewing 12, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 6, Spanos 8, Porrini 2, Sap, Deligiannis 11, Matalon 2, Fountas, Nikolopoulos.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 8, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras, Aggelopoulos, Wright 11, Kalampokis 7, Kanonidis 3, Sinis 3, Latovic 13, Eziukwu, Drča 8, Gabriel 10.

Rethymno Aegean beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 20th day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 20th day. Rethymno Aegean won for third consecutive home game and has avoided relegation, heading only up now. Callistus Eziukwu with 15 points and 9 rebounds, Luka Drča with 13 points and Derek Wright with 13 points and 10 rebounds were the best players for Rethymno Aegean. Kenny Gabriel scored 6 points and collected 10 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos Mouhammad Faye had 26 points and 9 rebounds, Rob Jones had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores: 18-17, 39-30, 64-44, 85-69.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 12, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 2, Aggelopoulos 2, Wright 13, Kalampokis 14, Kanonidis 2, Sinis, Latovic 6, Eziekwu 15, Drča 13, Gabriel 6.
Panelefsiniakos: Papamakarios 2, Arapis, Dimakos, Jones 16, Magounis, Faye 26, Fisher 5, Melissaratos, Turner 9, Mantzaris 9, Avramidis 2.

Rethymno Aegean signed Luka Drča

Rethymno Aegean signed Luka Drča. The 26 years old Serbian combo guard started the season in Serbia for OKK Beograd. Previously he had played for Astana, Mega Vizura and Crvena Zvezda.