Thanks to a devastating 22-0 run in the third quarter, Ferrara Basket achieves a fundamental success in the playoffs in Pordenone (64-77), driven by Kuvekalovic but above all by an increasingly surprising Romondia. Two vital points for the blue and whites, who almost they mortgage the post season having a 2-0 in the direct clashes with the Friulians: now two consecutive matches at home, but first an Easter that Ferrara can experience in peace.
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Balanced start, the two teams explore their long players and in the 5th minute Ferrara flies on the counterattack with an inspired Marchini, but on the other side Venuto scores the equalizing triple at 12. Cagnoni from 6.75 takes Pordenone ahead, and the bad news for Benedetto is that Marchini reaches three fouls after just 8′. After a good start, Ferrara gets stuck in attack, but the Friulians pardon them several times and in the 12th minute it is 22-18: the biancazzurri never score from the arc and halfway through the second quarter Pordenone tries to extend the lead (27-19). Ballabio plays the charge with a steal and an easy basket in ‘coast to coast’, Ferrara shows signs of awakening but Cagnoni is a decision from the arc (32-25).
The recovery begins with a sensational partial of 22-0 in favor of the biancazzurri, who took the lead again at 38-34 thanks to the first triple of the evening by Romondia, and extended to +11 with a decisive Kuvekalovic from ‘4’. Pordenone remains without points scored for five minutes, Romondia lights up from three and Ferrara even touches the +21 at 27′ thanks to his gem born in 2005. The hosts raise the intensity at the start of the last part to attempt a comeback, Ferrara stops playing and in the 35th minute it’s 56-67, but Romondia comes back and changes the tune: lucid direction and a ‘another triple from the corner that puts the two points on ice.
