Spartak Saint Petersburg vs. Neptunas Klaipeda - Game

2013-14Regular SeasonRound 5

November 13, 2013 CET: 17:00

Local time: 20:00 SPARTAK ARENA

Andrey Koshcheev - Spartak St. Petersburg - EC13 (photo Spartak)

Spartak St. Petersburg beat Neptunas Klaipeda 88-75 to return to the race for a spot in the next stage in the Eurocup. Steve Burtt Jr. starred with 21 points and 9 assists, Yaroslav Karolev scored 19 and Donnie McGrath tallied 17 points and 8 assists to lead the home team, which improved to 2-3 in Group H. Spartak stormed ahead with a 12-0 second-quarter run, led 44-32 at halftime and had an answer for every Neptunas move afterward. Jared Homan added 15 points and 9 rebounds and Andrey Koshcheev posted 12 and 7 for the victors. Vytautas Sarakauskas scored 15 to lead Neptunas, which dropped to 1-4. Marius Runkauskas added 13 points and Justas Sinica scored 12 of 4-of-5 three-point shooting.

Homan scored twice as Spartak jumped in front 6-2. Sarakauskas answered as Neptunas tied the score at 8-8. Burtt got going with a layup and an assist to help the hosts grab an 18-13 lead after one quarter. Mindaugas Girdziunas nailed a three-pointer to tie it again at 18-18 early in the second quarter. Spartak took charge at that point with a run of 12 unanswered points; Burtt scored half those points and McGrath assisted twice in that run. Karolev heated up and extended the lead to 40-23 with 7 points in a row. Neptunas got within 10 on a pair of Edgaras Ulanovas free throws, but Burtt hit 2 from the line to make it 44-32 at halftime. The visitors drew close again at the start of the second half; Sinica nailed a three and Valdas Vasylius jumper brought the visitors within 48-44. McGrath took charge with 7 of his team’s next 9 points and later dished an assist to Homan to leave Spartak with a 60-52 lead through three quarters. With a block on one end and a bucket at the other, David McClure kept Neptunas within 63-56. But Burtt dished to Koshcheev to quickly restore a double-digit advantage. Neptunas made one last run and closed to 64-69 on an Ulanovas triple. A pair of buckets from Burtt and a steal and slam from Korolev ended the game with time to spare, 75-64, and the hosts cruised to a crucial win.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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Referees: LOVSIN, ANDREJ; TOMOV, MIROSLAV; MILOJEVIC, ALEKSANDAR

Attendance: 700 (Tentative)

By Quarter	1	2	3	4
Spartak Saint Petersburg	18	26	16	28
Neptunas Klaipeda	13	19	20	23

End of Quarter	1	2	3	4
Spartak Saint Petersburg	18	44	60	88
Neptunas Klaipeda	13	32	52	75

Spartak Saint Petersburg

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
5	McGRATH, DONNIE	36:19	17	4/6	3/4			4	4	8	1	7	2	1	2	2	21
7	KOSHCHEEV, ANDREY	32:28	12	6/7			1	6	7	3	1	2			4		16
11	BURTT, STEVEN	30:33	21	6/7	2/3	3/3		4	4	9		1			3	4	32
15	KOROLEV, YAROSLAV	30:52	19	6/7	2/5	1/1		6	6	2	3		2		2	1	27
17	IAKOVENKO, ARTEM	14:04	2	1/3	0/1						1	3			1		-4
19	FIDII, EVGENY	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20	POPOV, ILYA	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
21	NESTEROV, KONSTANTIN	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
27	PERSHIN, YURY	12:49	2	1/1			1	2	3	1					3	1	4
35	VOITIUK, EVGENII	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
51	HOMAN, JARED	33:21	15	7/12		1/4	1	8	9	4	1	3		1	2	2	17
55	TKACHENKO, MAXIM	9:34			0/1					1	1	1			1	1
	Team							1	1								1
	Totals	200:00	88	31/43	7/14	5/8	3	31	34	28	8	17	4	2	18	11	114
				72.1%	50%	62.5%

Head coach: VETRA, GUNDARS

Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating

Neptunas Klaipeda

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
7	MAZEIKA, MARTYNAS	25:00	2	1/6	0/2		1	1	2	2		4		2	3	4	-6
8	GIRDZIUNAS, MINDAUGAS	5:24	3	0/1	1/1							1					1
9	MC CLURE, DAVID	15:49	5	1/2	1/2			2	2	1	2	1	1				8
10	SINICA, JUSTAS	24:51	12	0/2	4/5		2	2	4	2	1	2			1	3	16
13	EITUTAVICIUS, ARVYDAS	25:14	4	0/3	0/2	4/4		1	1	2		1			2	3	2
15	SARAKAUSKAS, VYTAUTAS	24:53	15	6/9	1/3		3	2	5	1	1			1	1	1	16
22	RUNKAUSKAS, MARIUS	22:35	13	5/7	1/3			4	4	4	3	1			2	2	19
31	ULANOVAS, EDGARAS	14:32	7	1/5	1/2	2/4		2	2		2	1	1	1		2	5
42	VASYLIUS, VALDAS	26:42	8	3/6	0/1	2/3	1	3	4	2	2				1	2	12
44	SMITH, ANDREW	15:00	6	3/6		0/1	1		1	1					1	1	4
	Team						2	1	3			1					2
	Totals	200:00	75	20/47	9/21	8/12	10	18	28	15	11	12	2	4	11	18	79
				42.6%	42.9%	66.7%

Head coach: MAKSVYTIS, KAZYS

Head Coaches

VETRA, GUNDARS

Spartak Saint Petersburg

"This game was very important for us because only victory gave us a chance to fight for qualifying for the next round. So the actions of my players maybe sometimes were nervous, but it’s because of a lack of confidence in their forces. We lost a series of games including some of them where we could have won. But today the players were one team on the court and 27 assists says something about this fact. The players tried to look for each other on the court, help each other and find good situations for attacking. On defense we played according to our plan not all the time, but in some periods and the game wasn’t bad."

MAKSVYTIS, KAZYS

Neptunas Klaipeda

"We seriously thought about victory here. But the first half wasn’t good for us. In the second we returned to the game twice and reduced the difference up 4-5 points. But these efforts needed a lot of our forces and we lost the end of the game. So we’ll try to take revenge at home."

Players

KOROLEV, YAROSLAV

Spartak Saint Petersburg

"We don’t want to be an outsider and we don’t to hurt our fans. It’s only our second home game in the season, and the first in the Eurocup. So our goal is to win all the home games and try to win as many as possible games away. Up to now we have done that."