Louisville point guard Peyton Siva led Reach USA to a 70-69 victory over the Russia Peak All Stars in the last game of the Reach USA team’s tour of China.
Siva hit the winning layup over a 7-foot-4 Russian at the buzzer to win the game. He led the Reach USA team with 15 points and a whopping 14 rebounds. He also had four assists.
Kentucky big man Josh Harrellson chipped in 11 points and three rebounds. UK guard Jon Hood added four points.
Harrellson was the Reach USA team’s leading scorer on the tour. He averaged 13.1 points. He also averaged a team-high 9.2 rebounds.
Hood averaged 5.3 points and 2.9 assists per game.
Siva averaged 7.6 points and a team-high 5.4 assists.
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
