2002-03EighthfinalsRound 1
February 04, 2003 CET: 00:00
Local time: 00:00 PALAZZO DELLO SPORT

Roseto topped Adecco Estudiantes 80-72

Euro Roseto of Italy survived an important challenge on its own court Tuesday in the first game of ULEB Cup eighthfinals with an 80-72 victory over visiting Adecco Estudiantes of Spain. An 8-0 run to finish the game that featured 5 points from point guard Teemu Rannikko allows Roseto to visit Madrid next week needing only to lose by 7 points or fewer. Juan Manuel Moltedo led the way for Roseto, netting 23 points while making 4 of 7 three-pointers, but all his team had an amazing performance from the arc (13-for-26, 59%). Rannikko contributed 18 points (4-for-7 on threes), Rodney Monroe added 16 (4-for-6) and Diego Fajardo tallied 10 more. For the guests from Spain, Corey Brewer scored 14 points, Felipe Reyes drilled 11, while Nikola Loncar and Adam Keefe scpred 10 apiece.

Roseto started the game without its best scorers; Marko Milic, sidelined for an ankle sprain in the last pracice before playing, and Rodney Monroe. But Moltedo answered well his coach's trust, reaching double-digit scoring already in the first period. Estudiantes started tough on defense and controlling the tempo, the right attitude and mentality for a team which has to play the first game of a double matchups on the road. The visitors took an early 4-8 lead with a layup by Hernan Jasen, but Roseto answered with a 10-3 run that ended with a Miroslav Radosevic long distance shot for a 14-11 lead. Both teams were on fire in the last minutes of the period, Roseto with great accuracy on threes while Brewer put Estudiantes ahead again 23-24 after 10 minutes.

The teams answered each other early in the second quarter, but after Fajardo scored twice from the free throw line for a 34-32 Roseto edge, nobody scored for several minutes, until Rafeal VIdaurreta slammed to tie it 34-34 with 3 minutes until the half. In that span, it was Estudiantes who took the iniciative with 2 consecutive baskets by Nikola Loncar that set the scoreboard at 41-45 as the team's hit the lockers. Loncar was leading the Spaniards with 11 points, while Moltedo had 14 for Roseto.

Rodney Monroe gave his first contributions as Roseto began the third period with a 10-2 run to a 51-47 advantage. The hosts seemed to play tougher defense now, forcing Estudiantes to take bad shots, while under the boards the Italians also improved their boxing out. Roseto mantained a slim lead until the last minute of the quarter, when Ranniko and Monroe scored a triple each to boost the lead to 66-57 after 30 minutes.

The last period started in the same way, Roseto managing the game and Estudiantex chasing, as field goal percentages became poor for both teams and they scored from the line only. Brewer, well-known in Italya fter his shining season with Biella, scord a three-pointer with 4 minutes left to put his team close than ever in the last quarter, 70-68. Carlos Jimenez tied the game on 72-72, but the youngster from Finland, Rannikko, scored his fourth triple to put Roseto ahead 75-72. A few seconds later Monroe scored another long-distance shot, and then Rannikko added two from the line to pad Roseto's advantage for the second game.

Tuesday, February 4, 2003
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Referees: PITSILKAS, NIKOLAOS; RAMOS, MATEO; CHAVES, RAUL
Attendance: 1500
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Eurocellulari Roseto24172514
Adecco Estudiantes Madrid25201215
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Eurocellulari Roseto24416680
Adecco Estudiantes Madrid25455772
Eurocellulari Roseto
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 MARIANI, MASSIMO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5 MONROE, RODNEY 28:00 16 1/3 4/6 2/2   4 4 1 2   1   3 1 18
6 CALLAHAN, DANIEL 12:00           3 3   1 1     5   -2
9 RANNIKKO, TEEMU 31:00 18 0/1 4/7 6/6   1 1   1 3     3 5 15
10 FAJARDO, DIEGO 30:00 10 3/4 0/1 4/4 1 3 4   3 3     3 3 12
12 SARTORI, MAURO 6:00     0/1     1 1 1   1     2   -2
13 RADOSEVIC, MIROSLAV 23:00 4 0/1 1/4 1/3   1 1   1 1       3 2
14 MOLTEDO, JUAN 33:00 23 3/5 4/7 5/7   1 1 3 5 1     2 8 30
15 DAVIS, BEN 32:00 9 3/7   3/4 4 4 8   2 3     4 4 11
16 DAVOLIO, ALESSANDRO 5:00                   2       1 -1
20 SCAPIN, MATTEO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team             2 2   6           8
Totals 200:00 80 10/21 13/26 21/26 5 20 25 5 21 15 1 0 22 25 91
        47.6% 50% 80.8%
Head coach: MELILLO, PHILIP
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
Adecco Estudiantes Madrid
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 KEEFE, ADAM 26:00 10 3/4 1/1 1/2 3 4 7           2 1 14
6 BREWER, COREY 20:00 14 2/4 2/2 4/7   3 3 1 1 2   1 2 4 13
7 LONCAR, NIKOLA 32:00 10 3/6 1/3 1/2   1 1 3 1 1     1 2 9
8 MISO, ANDRES 11:00 2 1/2 0/1     1 1   1       2    
9 REYES, FELIPE 21:00 11 4/7   3/5 2 4 6 2 1 6     3 6 12
10 JIMENEZ, CARLOS 16:00 9 2/2 1/1 2/2   1 1 1 2 4     4 3 8
11 GABRIEL, GERMAN 9:00 2 1/4   0/1 1 2 3     2     3 3 -1
12 VIDAURRETA, RAFAEL 8:00 2 1/1       1 1   2         1 6
13 AZOFRA, IGNACIO 28:00 2 1/3 0/1     1 1 2   4     2   -4
14 JASEN, HERNAN 14:00 5 1/2 0/2 3/4   1 1     1     3 1 -1
15 ITURBE, IKER 15:00 5 0/1 1/1 2/2         1 1     3 1 2
Team           1 2 3   6           9
Totals 200:00 72 19/36 6/12 16/25 7 21 28 9 15 21 0 1 25 22 67
        52.8% 50% 64%
Head coach: HERNANDEZ, PEPU
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Head Coaches

MELILLO, PHILIP
Eurocellulari Roseto
"First of all, I'm happy for our win and for our reaction after a bad loss in the Italian League last Saturday. We have played a good offensive game despite Marko Milic being sidelined. I said to my players to think just about winning, and just in the last two minutes eventually to give a look at the score thinking about the double-match, and it has happened. Estudiantes is a tough team and showed that by staying close for all the fourty minutes, and now we have to go to Madrid to win the game and will be a hot challenge."
HERNANDEZ, PEPU
Adecco Estudiantes Madrid
"We prepared the game for guard Marko Milic, he was the first threat and the first player to stop for us. He didn't play and we were surprised a little bit. Roseto didn't suffer it, because it has many good players outside, and we suffered too much their shooting accuracy. We contained the deficit, and well knowing it will not be easy to recover, we'll have a big help on Tuesday from our fans. We hope to have in a number between 10,000 and 12,000 to push us to the quarterfinals."

Players

CALLAHAN, DANIEL
Eurocellulari Roseto
"I want to cheer and thank all the people here in Roseto, they gave to me many things, but I have to go back to the States, my father is in bad condition and I have to take his place in his factory. I'm happy to have finished my playing career winning such an important game, that has been very tough, and I'm happy to celebrate it with our fans and my teammates."
KEEFE, ADAM
Adecco Estudiantes Madrid
"We are a young team, and we made several defensive mistakes, and we were not able to control the tempo of the game for all the forty minutes. We made the bigger defensive mistake suffering 24 points in the first period, and then giving two good three-point shots in the final minute."
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