Six players netted in double digits for the visitors
Olympiacos cruises past Virtus, 70-92

Olympiacos Piraeus grabbed its 10th win in the last 11 games by thrashing Virtus Segafredo Bologna 70-92 on Friday night. The hosts took a double-digit lead in the first quarter and maintained it throughout the game to secure their fourth victory in a row. Olympiacos improved its record to 20-7, while Virtus registered its fifth straight loss and dropped to 7-20.
Six Olympiacos players scored in double figures, with Sasha Vezenkov, Nikola Milutinov, Alec Peters, Evan Fournier and Moustapha Fall netting 12 each and Kostas Papanikolaou pouring in 11. For Virtus, Isaia Cordinier scored 15 points and Daniel Hackett bagged 10 in a losing effort.
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Nicola Akele opened the scoring from inside, but Nigel Williams-Goss, Fall, Papanikolaou, Fournier and Vezenkov all got off the mark to give Olympiacos a commanding 2-17 lead midway through the first quarter. Cordinier ended Olympiacos’s 0-17 run with an off-balanced jumper, but Milutinov netted 6 points off the bench to restore a 6-23 cushion. Then, Vezenkov, Giannoulis Larentzakis and Fournier scored from deep to make it 14-34 after 10 minutes.
Fall and Alessandro Pajola traded baskets before triples by Peters and Tyler Dorsey gave Olympiacos an 18-42 lead in the second period. Three straight buckets from Fall stretched Olympiacos’s lead to 21-48. Dorsey drilled one from downtown and Peters drained a buzzer-beating jumper, but Cordinier sank Virtus’s first triple of the game, slightly trimming the deficit to 29-54 – the largest lead Olympiacos has ever recorded in a first half.
Hackett opened the third quarter with a three, but four straight points by Fournier restored a 34-58 cushion. Triples by Hackett and Akele were followed by a Rayjon Tucker slam that cut the difference to 42-60. Morgan went 2 for 2 from the line to extend Virtus’s run to 14-2, slashing the deficit to 48-60. Luca Vildoza answered with a corner triple before Vezenkov netted one of his own, but Momo Diouf converted inside to bring the hosts within 54-68 heading into the fourth quarter.
McKissic and Peters scored a bucket each before four points from Vezenkov provided a 56-76 cushion for the visitors. Virtus made one last push with Justin Holiday and Ante Zizic netting inside, but Peters drilled a corner three and Papanikolaou added two points to his tally from inside to make it 64-88, practically finishing the game off.