After losing to Hunter the last time they met, Cyprus decided to demonstrate that turnabout is fair play. The Cyprus Pirates strolled past the Hunter Wolverines with points to spare on Tuesday, taking the game 75-61. The Pirates pushed the score to 63-38 by the end of the third, a deficit the Wolverines cut but never quite recovered from.
Leading Cyprus to victory were Koli Fosita and Beckham Bayles. Fosita went 9 of 12 en route to 23 points and five boards, while Bayles went 5 for 9 on his way to 17 points and six assists. Another player making a difference was Alen Hadzialijagic, who posted ten points.
They weren't the only one working in the assists department: Cyprus was working as a unit and finished the game with 23 assists. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Hunter only racked up 13 assists.
Loss or not, Hunter got some senior leadership from Dominick Phanolath and Keaton Miller. Phanolath put up 24 points and seven rebounds, while Miller scored 13 points and seven boards. The game was Phanolath's sixth in a row with at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Jayden Silas, who earned seven points.
Cyprus is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 68.4 points per game. As for Hunter, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-11.
Cyprus has already played their next contest, a 49-47 defeat against Kearns on the 24th. As for Hunter, they also didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next game, a 52-45 loss against Granger on the 24th.
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