In a rematch the Jacksonville Giants played the Atlanta Experience Saturday evening at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. The largest crowd of the year saw a close game for the first half. In the third quarter the Giants led by 13 with 6:27 minutes left in the quarter. The Giants avenged their loss (120-107) to the Experience on December 11th 2011 in Atlanta. Jacksonville Giants 132 Atlanta Experience 118.f
In the first quarter, the Giants led 42-37. Jacksonville's seven foot center,Jermaine Bell, scored 12 points, on his way to an outstanding game.
It was close at the half with Jacksonville leading 68-64. For the half, Bell scored 20 points and pulled down 9 rebounds.
The third quarter saw the Giants pull away and they led 101-85 at the end of the quarter. At that point Bell had 31 points.
High scorer for the game was Bell with 42 points, 15 rebounds, and 9 blocked shots. Bell scored on slam dunks, dunking ally-op passes from his teammates, and made several of his patented jump shots from the corner. Second leading scorer for the Giants was Nick Wallery with 19 points and 9 rebounds.
Leading scorer for Atlanta was Tim Ware with 34 points and he grabbed 9 rebounds.
Jacksonville added a new player for the game,Anthony Jackson, who last year was an ABA All-Star player for the Columbus Riverballers. When the Giants played the Riverballers on December 17th, 2011 Jackson had a triple double against the Giants.
The next Giants home game is January 14, 2012 against the Savannah Storm at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena with tip off at 7:00pm.
Picture courtesy of Jodi Arnold(www.j-vision.smugmug.com).
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