Lions and Tigers are close due to the top of Dominican baseball

Licey Tigers came to a game of the top of the championship semifinal Dominican professional baseball , with its 7-3 victory on Monday Escogisdo Lions in the Quisqueya stadium , on a day which also the Cibao Eagles beat the Gigantes del Cibao .

The Tigers (5-4 ) came to a game of first place occupied by the Lions, champions and favorites to advance to the tournament final.

Outfielder Engel Beltre hit three of the nine hits overall winner and also drove in a run to become the offensive blue hero , while Creole Esmil Rogers threw five innings of a return to the win against the " scarlet " (6 and 3) .

The pitcher was imported defeated Graham Godfrey, who punished the winners with three touchdowns in four chapters.

In the other match of the day, the Eagles , playing as local prevailed 5-2 in Giants Stadium in the northern Cibao Santiago de los Caballeros, which allowed the winning troop enhance your brand in four wins and five defeats, a second important game , which gives a ticket to the final.

The " cuyayas " managed to clear side marker (1-2 ) with a bunch of four laps in the eighth , including a homer outfielder Juan Carlos Perez with a partner on board, against reliever Zack Segovia , who was defeated pitcher .

The junior right Tony Peña was the winning pitcher as the closer Marcos Mateo scored his third save , to get three outs in the ninth. Imported Joey Terdoslavich four hits , to activate a aguilucha offense that has been somewhat asleep.

Zachary Kroenke lefty dominated the " cuyayas " in the first four innings , but his replacement, Fabio Castro allowed a return in the sixth and then , Segovia was attacked in the eighth.

Outfielder Francisco Peguero hit a homer four corners by the defeated troops, who slipped to the bottom of the table with three wins mark six setbacks.

Tuesday no scheduled match in the competition , agreed to 18 games.

91-86. Johnson returned to be the executioner of Hawks

The guard Joe Johnson again met his best flick of the wrist and led the attack of the Brooklyn Nets 91-86 beat his exequipo of the Atlanta Hawks .

Johnson , in the absence of injured starting point guard Deron Williams, was commissioned to lead the attack of the Nets to get 23 points and lead a list of four players who had double digits .

The former player for the Hawks came up with some key baskets and also able to overcome the barrier of 10 points after five games in the past could not get it , something happened for the first time in eleven seasons.

The victory was the third straight getting the Nets ( 13-21) , who tied the best streak so far this season.

Along with Johnson , who also had four assists and grabbed three rebounds , Serbian power forward Mirza Teletovic was the sixth player to contribute 16 points and grabbed three balls under the basket .

While the guard-forward Alan Anderson reached the 14 goals to go in the first five of the Nets, who had the lowest injury of guard Deron Williams, who joins the U.S. Cuban center Brook Lopez.

Williams missed the twelfth game so far this season after Sunday suffered swelling of the left ankle and an MRI exam confirmed he has a slight sprain that will keep you from the team for a few games.

The basis Shaun Livingston took over the post of Williams in the direction of the Nets game and had 12 points , five rebounds , three fumbles recovered , he gave an assist and made a plug.

The veteran power forward Kevin Garnett became the leader of the game under the basket Nets capturing 10 rebounds , including nine who were defensive , and scored four points .

The Nets now have two more games to play in his field on Wednesday when they face the Golden State Warriors and Friday against the Miami Heat .

The power forward Paul Millsap and Jeff Teague scored 16 basis points each and topped the list of four Hawks players who had double digits , but could not avoid a third consecutive defeat of his team .

Teague, who handed out five assists , missed 10 of 15 field goals , while forward DeMarre Carroll and power forward Elton Brand scored 10 points apiece and also captured seven rebounds.

The guard Kyle Korver was the most complete of the Hawks to get seven points, including a triple in three attempts, seven rebounds and six assists , leading the team in that facet of the game.

2-5, Villarreal is not clear in Vallecas

Villarreal , a triplet and a doublet Nigerian Uche French Perbet , won a victory (2-5 ) in Vallecas very comfortable with a Ray who again showed their defensive shortcomings errors and never gave sense to aspire to more than a defeat.

The Madrid team , junior classification , faced a must-win for their leave of that danger zone shock, something which he said his coach Paco Jemez in the previous had been raised as a challenge before the end of the first round of the championship next week.

With the idea of ​​winning the Ray left the field , and it is true that exuded attitude and intensity in the early going , but the seven -minute meeting, the first approach to door Villarreal received the first blow.

The set Castellon made ​​clear the huge gaps Rayo defensive when the Nigerian Uche completely unmarked inside the area , received a ball from French Perbet and only had to cross the ball to the exit from goal Cobeño .

The goal iced the age of Vallecas and franjirrojo equipment itself , without even assimilate the first goal conceded the second , this see through Perbet who their marker ahead to finish off pleasure in from the left of Moses Gómez .

With this handicap on the scoreboard , the visiting team came relaxed and the best minutes of Lightning , which had accumulated several opportunities to danger , like a shot to stick Jonathan Viera or a distant Lass scored from a corner that sent Asenjo .

Before the break the siege reacted Villarreal Rayo and again on a defensive error franjirrojos , Perbet reimposed his defender to finish just inside the area a center of Moisés Gómez .

In the second half , the match followed the same course it did at the end of the first part , with Ray trying to take the initiative and attack the game , but with a solid defensive Villarreal and unhurried save .

At twelve minutes after the restart , a move to counter attack led by Villarreal ended with a shot that clears Cobeño Perbet and dead ball falls to Aquinas , which focuses to Uche , alone again , push the ball to the network in the small area .

Just seven minutes later , the Nigerian Uche completed his treble pleasure to push the ball clear after a foul by Cobeño Trigueros to which any player Ray came to defend the rebound.

That was the trigger for both dozens of fans Rayo , with whistles made ​​the team rise from their seats and enfilaran the way out the door to leave the stadium when there were still more than twenty minutes remaining .

Rayo pulled one back with a goal from Mexican Nery Castillo with a left after receiving a ball from Jonathan Viera lines , scored his first goal in Spain .

In the time off , a penalty of Uche on Trashorras was transformed by Castillo on makeup and the result for the home .