ARG - Sionista tie semi-final series with Atenas

CORDOBA (Liga Nacional de Basquet) - Juventud Sionista de Paraná beat Atenas de Córdoba 93-84 to tie their Argentinean National League semi-final series at 1-1.

Sionista spread the scoring load as Alejandro Zilli recorded a team-best 19 points, Chuckie Robinson added 17, Javier Martínez chipped in with 14 and Luis Cequeira had 11 in the winning cause.

The game was close early on with the score tied at 21 by the end of the first quarter. Sionista stepped up their defense to take a 47-37 at intermission and carried their momentum early in the third quarter to go up by as many as 24, 69-45.

Down 77-56 at the start of the final frame, Atenas made a strong run to cut the deficit in half but they ran out of time. Diego Lo Grippo had 21 points, Djibril Kante 20 and Juan Pablo Cantero 17 for the team from Cordoba, who had won Game 1 74-66.

The series moves to Parana on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Peñarol took a stronghold in their series against Boca Juniors by winning the first two games, 100-83 and 71-62. Game 3 is on Tuesday.

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