KAOD beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 26th day

KAOD beat Aries Trikala in Trikala for Greek Basket League 26th day. It was the most productive game in Greek Basket League 2013-2014 with the two teams scoring 211 points without extra time. Both teams shot and scored many points with free throws, 23/30 for Aries Trikala, 27/33 for KAOD. Chris Evans and Nikola Marković had a massive game. Evans had 35 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals while Marković had 21 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assists. Patrick Ewing Junior had 26 points and 8 rebounds. Mario Matalon had 13 points and 6 assists while Mike Porrini had 11 assists and 2 points. Lazeric Jones had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, Edin Bavčić had 20 points and 5 rebounds. Aries Trikala will continue in the Greek Basket League next season and KAOD will continue in the play offs for the first time in the team history.
Quarters' scores: 28-32, 47-62, 79-82, 103-108.

Aries Trikala: Evans 35, Perunicic, Ewing 26, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 14, Porrini 2, Sapp, Matalon 13, Fountas, Panos 7, Nikolopoulos, Giannoulis.
KAOD: Slaftsakis 1, Jones 17, Stiggers 6, Brown 21, Vaughn 16, Markovic 21, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 20, Zaras 6, Benas, Kolovis.

Ikaros Chalkidas defeated Aries Trikala for Greek League 18th day

Ikaros Chalkidas defeated Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 18th day. This was the debut for Thanasis Giaples as the coach of Ikaros Chalkidas and it was a crucial victory. Aries Trikala was leading the score in the first half, since Ikaros Chalkidas made 11 turnovers up to that point. Ikaros Chalkidas counter attacked in the third quarter with Anthony Roberson and Ryan Richards. With partial score 31-12 in the third quarter Ikaros Chalkidas took the lead and kept it until the end. For Ikaros Chalkidas Anthony Roberson and Ryan Richards scored 16 points each, with Ryan Richards making a double double with 12 rebounds. Ivan Aska had 13 points and 9 rebounds, Dominique Sutton 9 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals. For Aries Trikala Chris Evans had 19 points, Patrick Ewing Jr 11 points and 6 rebounds, Mike Porrini no points but 9 assists and 3 steals.
Quarters' scores: 13-22, 32-42, 63-54, 81-74.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad 11, Roberson 16, Woodall 2, Aska 13, Sutton 9, Gagaloudis 14, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 16, Bempis, Persidis. 
Aries Trikala: Evans 19, Perunicic 12, Ewing 11, Giannakidis 1, Petrovic 9, Porrini, Sapp 9, Deligiannis, Matalon 1, Fountas, Panos 12, Nikolopoulos.

Aries Trikala lost from Panionios for Greek League 15th day

Aries Trikala hosted Panionios for Greek Basket League 15th day. First quarter started tight but Aries Trikala made a small counter attack in the end and finished it with a small lead of five points. Chris Evans finished the first quarter with 7 points and 6 rebounds. In the second quarter Trikala created a 7 points difference, 23-16, Panionios took the lead 33-34, but first half finished with a 6-0 run from Aries Trikala and 5 points lead. Aries Trikala finished the first half with only 6 turnovers and Chris Evans having a double double with 11 points and 10 rebounds in 20 minutes! Marc Carter had 5 turnovers of the 13 team turnovers of Panionios. In the third quarter Aries Trikala was ahead by 4-5 points but Errick McCollum started scoring for Panionios and with 4/4 three pointers gave a 4 points lead for his team, 55-59. Third quarter finished with Panionios scoring three pointers and Aries Trikala with Mario Matalon free throws. Vasilis Simtsak helped Panionios keep the lead in the fourth quarter beginning. One minute before the end Patrick Ewing Junior scored a three pointer making the score 73-75. McCollum, Langford, Kyritsis, Evans failed to score and Mike Porrini scored and equalized the score 75-75, 30 seconds before the end. Kyritsis and Perunicic failed to score and the game finished with equal score in normal time, 75-75. In extra time Panionios was leading the score and Aries Trikala was equalizing, 75-77 to 77-77, then 77-79 to 79-79 but with consecutive free throws from Nikolopoulos and Patrick Ewing Junior Aries Trikala took the lead with 83-79. Keving Langford scored a three pointer and made the score 83-82. Marc Carter scored the most crucial two points of the game and gave his team a great victory with score 83-84 in extra time. Chris Evans finished the game with double double, 12 points, 14 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists. Michael Porrini had 18 points and 4 assists. For Panionios all players, except young Skordilis, scored at least 2 points in the game with Errick McCollum being again the top scorer with 20 points.

Quarters' scores: 20-15, 39-34, 58-62, 75-75
Extra time: 83-84.

Aries Trikala: Evans 12, Perunicic 15, Ewing 18, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 1, Lekakis, Porrini 18, Deligiannis 3, Matalon 8, Fountas, Nikolopoulos 2, Georgakis.
Panionios: McCollum 20, Duvnjak 7, Carter 6, Milbourne 4, Athanasoulas 6, Batis 10, Skordilis, Langford 13, Michel 4, Simtsak 6, Kyritsis 6, Saloustros 2.

Aries Trikala signed Michael Porrini

Aries Trikala signed Michael Porrini. Mike Porrini is Kent State college graduate where he was teammate with Chris Evans, who will meet again at Trikala. In the last season Porrini was playing in the second league of Turkey for Gelisim, 32 games with 13,8 points, 6,8 rebounds and 4,6 assists per game in average.