ENERGYTIME SPIKE DEVILS CAMPOBASSO 3
ACLI NFA SAET ROMA 0
(25/17, 25/19, 25/21)
REFEREES: Renzi and Tosti (Pescara).
Twenty-second exploit in the championship and stop in Casoria just around the corner. In the last of the regular season, under the eyes of the general director of Magnolia Campobasso Rossella Ferro and the coach of the A1 women’s basketball quintet Mimmo Sabatelli, the EnergyTime Spike Devils Campobasso clearly beat the Romans of Acli Saet with a 3-0 result of partials of 25-17, 25-19 and 25-21 and, on an evening in which both the winger Giuseppe Pacelli and the central player Mattia Minuti are rested, he almost never has problems against the Capitoline players who put their heads a bit ahead only in the central phase of the third set, but were immediately pushed back.
The rossoblù thus ended their journey in group G of Serie B in first place with sixty-five points, twenty-two matches won and two lost, 70 sets won and sixteen lost. In the separate ranking with groups H and I the ‘little devils’ precede the Grottaglie leader in pool H but are behind Reggio Calabria, six plus one winner in group I.
In fact, for the first round of the playoffs which will start next weekend, the same itinerary as the qualifying phase for the Final Four of the Italian Cup will be followed: first match on the weekend between Grottaglie and Reggio Calabria, midweek match between EnergyTime Spike Devils Campobasso and Grottaglie at Montini (probably Tuesday 21 May at 8pm) and on the weekend of 25 and 26 May the Calabrians’ home match.
Furthermore, in case of failure in this triangular tournament, there will be a further step with the other first not reaching the top and the winner of the triangular tournament among the second of the three groups.
«In the end it went for the best – the comment of coach Mariano Maniscalco – now we have to reset everything and get to the playoffs in the best possible condition. The period of time in view of the match with Grottaglie is the right one to work in a phase where great attention must be paid to every detail, even living with some ailments. We will have to take the field with the spirit of those who want to conquer something important.”
Then, returning to the comparison with the Capitoline team, he adds: «We always had the match under control and this allowed us to give Pacelli and Minuti a bit of a break because, apart from a passage in the central phase in the third set, we were never been under. Now, however, we only have to think about what will be and put aside what has been.”
A path that, however, also brought with it the Italian Cup in the category, as well as the leadership of the group.
