Shavon Shields’ 35 points career-high launched Olimpia on its way to a 94-84 win over Virtus Bologna in a game led from wire-to-wire, with the exception of a 2-0 irrelevant deficit. Olimpia had a dominating 27-point first quarter, then took a 14-point lead in the locker room and pushed Bologna’s rally back. The lead was reduced to two points in the fourth quarter and again to three, after Zach LeDay, who had a great game himself (21 points, eight rebounds), made a jumper and converted a tip-in opening up a six-point margin again. After, Kyle Weems’ huge three from the corner, Shields completed a four-point play, then scored again, and Olimpia closed the deal on a high note, winning by ten. “We were facing a team with tremendous offensive potential and, ironically, we won the game with our own offense. We played very well in spurts, in some other moments our collective minds went to the EuroLeague playoffs that we are about to approach,” Coach Ettore Messina said. Shields scored 35 points and made also seven threes, another career-high.