The Atlantic Under-19 basketball team was unable to round off its excellent participation in the qualifying tournament for the 2023 National Sports Games to be played in the Coffee Region, which was held in Santa Marta, with the championship.
In the final match, they lost 70-53 once morest Antioquia, in an eventful game and with a strong fight in the final quarter, where the judges expelled 7 players from Atlántico and another 6 of their rivals from the match. The delegate of the albirrojo quintet, Miguel Bendeck, was also removed from the party.
The match had been pretty close, but it wasn’t until the final 10 minutes that everything got out of control with a brawl that culminated in that many send-offs.
The protagonist of the action was the Atlanticense Edwin Ojeda, who was the figure of the Atlanticense team at that time with 23 points and 6 rebounds, precisely in search of a resurgence under the rim, ended up struggling with a player from Antioquia, S. Hincapié.
This action generated pushes, elbow attempts and a kick from the Antioquian to Ojeda, who turned and hit him in the face.
The benches of both teams entered the woodwork, and as the norm says when invading the field, all of them were expelled. After the claims for the action once morest the work of the judges, which was protested by the Atlantic, the delegate of the coastal team was expelled.
In the end, the scoreboard was extended for the Antioqueños who finished the last quarter fresher and left important lessons to Atlántico, which despite the defeat had already achieved its great goal, to qualify for the National Games next year.
Atlántico only lost one game, the final, following these events. Demonstrating the conditions of their players and that they can continue on the path to mature more for next year.
