There Benacquista Latina confirms his black belt in wasted opportunities and loses (87-89) also against Unieuro Forlì in a match led in terms of scoring from the end of the first quarter (overtaking 27-26) until 9″ from the final siren, when the guard Romagnoli Federico Zampini scores the triple for the lethal overtaking. In the economy of the ranking, the Pontini take advantage of the contemporary home defeat of Casal Monferrato (88-99 with Chiusi) avoiding direct relegation to B. Now 10 games await them in an impossible survival pool.
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The match
Returning to the match lost against Forlì, the defeated coach Giancarlo Sacco takes stock: «We will play other matches in the race for salvation, and this is positive – underlines the coach – but I am very angry because for the umpteenth time we have done charity by giving away the game to the opponents of the moment, two points wasted that could have been useful in the third phase of the championship”.
Latina, as has happened too often this season, crumbled towards the end of the match, penalized by its own limitations and errors. 12′ from the end of the match, Benacquista reached their maximum advantage: 65-52 with Forlì who, already mathematically first in the Red group for some time, are certainly not burned by the sacred fire of competitiveness. Instead, immediately three triples in a row from the former Todor Radonjc sent the teams to the final break at 70-61, then in the fourth half Unieuro riddled the Pontini’s retinas with another 7 triples: Cinciarini, Radonjc, 2 Valentini and 3 Zampini , including that of the final overtaking. Of the 37 points scored by Forlì from 65-52 in the 28th minute to the final 87-89, 30 will come thanks to three-pointers. Latina, in addition to the butter defense on the heavy shot, does harakiri from the line, because of the 7 books attempted in the final 3′, she only puts in 3, failing with her two best men: 2/5 Parrillo and 1/2 Mayfield.
Third phase
The regular season is over, now a week of rest and then off to the third phase, the one where the teams placed from ninth to eleventh in both groups will compete to stay in A2: first two save, the other 4 relegated to B. One desperate race, especially for the Nerazzurri, because they will take all the points gained in the two previous phases into the standings. In the six-man group, the teams from the Red group are in command: Cento will start with 30 points, Nardò with 26 and Chiusi with 22. In the queue are the three from the Green group: Luiss Roma 18, Agrigento 16 and Benacquista 14.
To at least grab second place, the Pontini team will have to beat the 4 teams in front twice, hoping for a chain of events that are more impossible than improbable. Latin, so far. he won 7 games out of 32 played, a record of 21% which should raise it to at least 80%. Highly unlikely, but the coach points out that the parameters change: «Up until now we have played many matches against very strong opponents, and these will no longer be there in the third phase – explains Sacco – now all rivals are of our level, so it will be up to us to stop give gifts and always play to the fullest.”
In fact the average victory against the 5 opponents of the salvation pool is 42%, i.e. 3 wins and 4 losses. The calendar is already known, with 6 shifts on weekends and 4 midweek: Latina will debut on Sunday 5 May in Cento; the first at home on Wednesday 8th with Chiusi, then two away games in the South: 12th May in Nardò and 15th May in Agrigento. Double home round on May 19th against Luiss Roma and on the 26th against Cento. It continues on May 29th in Chiusi and two other housewives: June 2nd with Nardò and June 5th in Agrigento. It will all end on Sunday 9 June, in Rome against Luiss.
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