Dwight Ramos bounces back as Toyama beats Hiroshima

The Toyama Grouses won an 85-73 end-to-end victory over the Hiroshima Dragonflies on Sunday at F-Pico Arena Fukuyama to end their three-game slippage in B.League’s 2021-22 season.

Brice Johnson led the way with 21 points, nine rebounds, four steals and three assists while Naoki Uto rose with 21 points, seven assists and two boards in the victory to make up for the scoreless exit of import Julian Mavunga .

Dwight Ramos also bounced back from his scoreless performance the night before with 15 points on 3 of 5 shots from deep, to go with three rebounds and a steal in 18 minutes on the bench.

Joshua Smith had 14 points, nine boards, three dimes and three steals, while Keijuro Matsui had 10 points to make up for Toyama’s 84-79 loss to Hiroshima on Saturday.

Unlike that first outing, however, the Grouses were quick to assert their will and opened the game with a 20-9 explosion. The lead fell to 15, 63-48, midway through the third period.

Toyama moved up to 9-17 and will return home this Saturday to face the Akita Northern Happinets at Toyama City Gymnasium.

Charles Jackson paced the Dragonflies with 19 points and eight rebounds as they saw their three-game winning streak interrupted.

At the Adastria Mito Arena. Shuto Ando drilled four treys for his 17 points to guide Alvark Tokyo to his seventh straight victory over Ibaraki Robots, 81-65.

Taiki Osakabe contributed 15 points on a 3-of-5 clip from three with six rebounds and five assists; Spain’s center Sebas Saiz had 13 points, six boards and four dimes, and Alex Kirk had a double-double of 11 points and 10 rebounds in the victory.

Naturalized player Ryan Rossiter also did his part for the Alvark with eight points, 12 boards and three dimes to help his team move up to 18-7.

Ibaraki’s loss marred Kohei Fukuzawa’s 21-point outing as the Robots have now lost back-to-back games to drop to 5-20.

Marc Trasolini and Eric Jacobsen got 13 points each, while Liano’s Javi Gomez didn’t score any goals in his four minutes and 52 seconds of action.

In the Second Division, Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka defeated Aomori Wat 86-75 at Aomori Prefecture Martial Arts Hall.

Stedmon Lemon scored Fukuoka’s balanced offense with 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists as the visitors established a comfortable 71-53 lead heading into the payment window.

Jerome Jordan added 13 points, six boards and six dimes, while Toshio Kan had 13 points, five rebounds and three assists in the win to go 12-15.

Aomori, meanwhile, gave up his ninth straight game to fall to 2-25.

Renaldo Dixon punctuated Wat with 26 points and nine rebounds, while Hayate Komasawa had 17 points and five rebounds in the loss.

Kemark Carino only played three minutes and 41 seconds and scored no goals but recovered a rebound.

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