Batis renews with Faros

Marios Batis renews with Faros Keratsiniou. The 36 years old Greek guard counts 309 games in Basket League Greece with Panionios, Iraklio, Olympia Larisas, Marousi and Apollon Patras, and helped Faros to get promoted in the League in its first year in A2 League.

Faros Keratsiniou roster 2015-2016

Faros Keratsiniou roster 2015-2016

Manolis Papamakarios
Gaios Skordilis
Michalis Kakiouzis
Dimitris Kompodietas
Marios Batis
Andreas Papadopoulos
Vangelis Chortsas
Giorgos Kountouras
Vangelis Karampoulas
Christos Petrodimopoulos
Nikos Liakopoulos
Nikos Angelopoulos
Kostas Zorzos
Sotiris Katoufas

Head Coach: Andreas Polemis

AEK smashed Apollon Patras for Basket League nineteenth day

AEK beat Apollon Patras for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 nineteenth day. Great road victory for AEK in Patras where Apollon is powerful. The first quarter finished with triple score and the second quarter with double score for AEK. Apollon had a terrible first half in accuracy with 1/14 three pointers and 5/18 two pointers. Apollon finished the first half with the same points (21) that just two players of AEK had scored: Dusan Sakota (10) and Pops Mensah-Bonsu (11). Apollon did not managed to counter attack in the second half and AEK won the game by 41 points! AEK had 15/28 three pointers while Apollon had 2/27! For the winners Pops Mensha-Bonsu made a double double with 16 points and 12 rebounds. Dusan Sakota had 27 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, Carl English had 12 points and Malik Hairston had 11 points. For Apollon Patras Batis had 12 points, Penn had 10 points, and Skordilis had 11 points.  AEK played tight defence which led El-Amin having 1/11 field goals and Toarlyn Fitzpatrick 0/6 field goals. Fitzpatrick and Galloway collected 7 rebounds each. Impressive victory for AEK against Apollon in Patras!
Quarters' scores: 8-26, 21-43, 38-70, 48-89.

Apollon Patras (Vetoulas): Skordilis 11, Argyropoulos, Galloway 5, Penn 10(2), Fitzpatrick, Antonakis, Batis 12(1), El-Amin 6, Pelekoudas, Molfetas 3, Niforas, Georgallis 1.
AEK (Sakota): Papantoniou 3(1), Delininkaitis 6(2), Sakota 27(5), Kaselakis 6(2), Polytarchou, Hairston 11(1), Williamson, Sarikopoulos 4, Athinaiou 3(1), Milosevic 1, Mensa-Bonsu 16, English 12(3).

Retyhmno Aegean beat Apollon Patras for Basket League eighth day

Retyhmno Aegean hosted and beat Apollon Patras for Basket League eighth day. In the first quarter Apollon Patras made a 9-0 run from 10-9 to 10-18 and finished it with two points lead, 21-23. Apollon Patras was leading the score in the second and third quarters but in the end Rethymno Aegean won the game leaving the visitors without any road win in the Basket League 2014-2015. For the winners Mouhammad Faye made a double double with 20 points and 13 rebounds. Complete performance by Vincent Council who had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Chaisson Allen had 13 points, 8 rebounds, and Dejan Kravic had 15 points and 8 rebounds. For Apollon Patras Muhammad El-Amin had 27 points with 6/11 three pointers and 5 assists. Gaios Skordilis had 19 points and 8 rebounds, Brandon Penn had 12 points but also 0/7 three pointers, Marios Batis had 7 assists and 6 points.
Quarters' scores: 21-23, 41-43, 68-71, 88-81

Rethymno Aegean: Simpson 8(1), Schizas 4, Koumpouras 7(1), Council 17(1), Allen 13(1), Kalampokis, Faye 20(1), Sinis 4, Chilaris, Kravic 15, Alihodzic, Doulgerakis.
Apollon Patras: Skordilis 19(1), Argyropoulos 4, Galloway 4, Penn 12, Fitzpatrick 7(1), Antonakis, Batis 6(2), El-Amin 27(6), Molfetas 2, Niforas, Georgalis.

Apollon Patras beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League fifth day

Apollon Patras hosted and beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League fifth day. Before the game Apollon Patras was in the bottom of the table but in its home the team improves a lot and Kolossos Rodou had a very poor game. Kolossos finished the first half with 21 points, Tsamis had 11 points, and only 1 assist, again Tsamis served it. Mike James had 0/6 shot and 0 points in the first half. Apollon Patras won with ease since the team had 14/31 three pointers. For Apollon Patras Brandon Penn had 19 points, Toarlyn Fitzpatrick made a double double with 15 points, and 11 rebounds, El-Amin had 12 points and Marios Batis had 8 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds. For Kolossos Rodou Angelos Tsamis had 13 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and Jamelle Hagins had 11 points and 9 rebounds. Kevin Galloway played 20 minutes but did not score.
Quarters' scores: 17-11, 35-21, 58-39, 71-55.

Apollon Patras: Argyropoulos 3, Galloway 3, Penn 19, Fitzpatrick 15, Antonakis 8, Batis 8, El-Amin 12, Pelekoudas, Molfetas 3, Niforas, Mastrogiannopoulos, Georgallis.
Kolossos Rodou: Toliopoulos, Laretzakis 1, Siologkas, Kareem 7, James 9, Smith, Stefanidis 6, Liden, Tsamis 13, Hagins 11, Buljan 8.

Aris beat Apollon Patras for Basket League third day

Aris hosted and beat Apollon Patras for Basket League third day. Apollon Patras troubled Aris and was following close in score but Aris never lost the lead and with nine players with score won the game by five points. For Aleksandar Vezenkov had 13 points and 7 rebounds, Ogo Adegboye had 12 points and Muhamed Pasalic had 10 points. For Apollon Patras Toarlyn Fitzpatrick had 21 points and 10 rebounds while Marios Batis had 15 points.
Quarters' scores: 20-17, 39-32, 51-41, 69-64

Aris (Priftis): Pasalic 10, Gikas 3, Reed 8, Charisis 4, Vezenkov 13, Naymick 8, Mourtos 4, Simtsak 7, Adegboye 12.
Apollon Patras (Vetoulas): Argyropoulos 3, Galloway 8, Penn 6, Fitzpatrick 21, Antonakis, Batis 15, El-Amin 4, Pelekoudas 7, Molfetas.

Apollon Patras beat Aries Trikala in friendly game

Apollon Patras beat Aries Trikala in friendly game. This was the first friendly victory for Apollon Patras in this season.
Quarters' scores: 23-22,36-40,53-54,71-74

Aries Trikala (Flevarakis): Bowie 3, Ingram 8, Houhoumis, Deligiannis 10, Spanos 3 (1), Cupkovic 11 (3), Matalon 6, Varytimiadis 6, Nikolopoulos 9 (3), Kamariotis 2, Kadji 13 (1)
Apollon Patras (Vetoulas): Argyropoulos 3 (1), Galloway 9 (1), Penn 14 (4), Fitzpatrick 7 (1), Antonakis 4 (1), Batis 10 (2), El-Amin 3 (1), Pelekoudas, Molfetas 8 (1), Oikonomopoulos, Skordilis 16.

Apollon Patras roster 2014-2015

Apollon Patras roster 2014-2015

Muhammad El-Amin
Toarlyn Fitzpatrick
Kevin Galloway
Brandon Penn
Marios Batis
Diogenis Gorgonis
Gaios Skordilis
Giannis Georgallis
Tasos Antonakis
Nikos Argyropoulos
Andreas Pelekoudas
Vassilis Niforas
Giannis Molfetas

Head coach: Nikos Vetoulas

Apollon Patras signed Marios Batis

Apollon Patras signed Marios Batis. This is the second player that moves from Panionios to Apollon Patras during this transfer season, after Gaios Skordilis. Batis' contract has a buy out option if until 30 of July the player has an offer by either Panathinaikos or Olympiacos. The Greek play maker played 30 games with Panionios in Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 5.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists in average.

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek League play offs round one

Panionios beat KAOD for Greek Basket League play offs round one. Panionios beat KAOD or Errick McCollum beat Edin Bavčić. Errick McCollum had 25 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists while Edin Bavčić had 29 points and 7 rebounds. KAOD was following Panionios in score but could not reverse the game and win it. Uros Duvnjak, Landon Milbourne and Marios Batis for Panionios and Lazeric Jones, Nikola Markovic finished the game with two digits score. Good game for three quarters for KAOD but Panionios took advantage of its home and won the game.
Quarters' scores: 23-19, 45-39, 60-57, 83-73.

Panionios: McCollum 25, Duvnjak 10, Carter 7, Milbourne 11, Athanasoulas, Batis 11, Skordilis 4, Langford 9, Michel, Simtsak, Saloustros 6.
KAOD: Slaftsakis, Jones 12, Stiggers, Vaughn 4, Markovic 10, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 29, Zaras 3.

Panionios defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek League eleventh day

Panionios hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek League eleventh day. Panionios with Errick McCollum and Marios Batis having a great game defeated Rethymno Aegean in the last game of 2013. Panionios had 10/25 three pointers against 4/23 of Rethymno Aegean. Marios Batis for Panionios and Kenny Gabriel for Rethymno Aegean finished the game with a double double. Batis scored 13 points and collected 13 rebounds, while Gabriel scored 11 points and collected 12 rebounds. For Rethymno Aegean three players scored 11 points each, Koumpouras, Kalampokis and Gabriel.

Quarters' scores: 21-19, 39-28, 66-53, 74-66.

Panionios: McCollum 19, Stamatis, Duvnjak 6, Carter 12, Milbourne 9, Athanasoulas 1, Batis 13, Langford 4, Michel 4, Simtsak,  Kyritsis 6, Saloustros.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 9, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 11, Aggelopoulos 6, Wright 6, Kalampokis 11, Kanonidis 6, Sinis, Latovic 6, Alexander, Arbet, Gabriel 11.