Elitzur Neve David Ramla tonight (Sunday) opened the closing round of the first round of the Athena Wiener League for women in basketball with a huge home victory, 57:88 over Elitzur Holon, which cut a streak of four consecutive losses in the league. Shira’s top team got a lot of air to breathe and a little confidence ahead of Wednesday’s rematch at the European Cup, against the Belgian Castors Brain.
The opening belonged to Ramla’s new acquisition, Courtney Williams, who scored four of her five shots from the field, leading the local team to a 14:22 lead at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter Holon showed worse shooting percentages from the field than in the first quarter, and for the first five minutes she managed to score, and the gap increased until in the half the result was 25:43 to Ramla.
In the third quarter, Holon still managed to produce offensive flow in the game, but Ramla was unstoppable. The host’s shooting was shared among most of the staff players, and the ball was almost never lost (only 9 losses until the end of the third quarter). All this stood out against the background of the bad data presented by Holon, especially by Tiara Ruppin (1 of 11 from the field) and Alexis Jones (2 of 12). Daniel Reber (20 points) and Daniel Adams (18 points) were the only ones to be noted for the Holon ranks, when the last quarter took place only for the record, and at the end of the scoreboard showed 57:88 to Ramla.
Emma Cannon was the top scorer in the winning ranks with 23 points, while Courtney Williams finished with 18 of her own. Tomorrow there will be four more round games.
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