San Vito Marano passes to Colle Gioioso

HC MONTEPRANDONE-SAN VITO MARANO 31-33
MONTEPRANDONE: Mucci, Vagnoni, Mirko Salladini, Evangelista 1, Cancellieri 1, Di Girolamo 4, Cani 2, Grilli 6, Capocasa, Tritto, Cuzzi 2, Moreno Salladini 3, Cocco 4, Takacs 3, Romussi 5, Cela. All. Voltage.
SAN VITO MARANO: Marchioro, Ochnio 3, Fabris 2, Stojanovic, Marangon 1, Bonollo, Dalla Riva, Ghiotto 11, Barbuto 8, Pesenti 2, De Marchi 6, Pietribasi. All. Stedile.

There is the first home stumble of the championship forHandball Club Monteprandone, the one that stops the promotion dream. A streak of eight useful internal results was interrupted (7 wins in the regular season and a draw on the debut in the play-off pool). He passes by the building in Via Colle Gioioso San Vito Marano, 33-31 the result. This is the third consecutive knockout for the coaching team Andrea Vultaggio, which remains at the bottom of the table, at 3, together with Prato, and is cut out of the race for the first two places, at the end of a match fought from start to finish, in which the greens would have deserved much more. The various half-time exclusions (2 minutes) in the first half and the sensational refereeing error on the last ball, the undetected background resulting in a final 33-31 for the guests, weigh heavily.

“Explaining this result is really difficult” comments coach Vultaggio. “We’ve done great things, it’s really difficult to get over it. Perhaps we were a little anxious and hasty in certain situations. Having played much of the first half outnumbered did the rest. In the second half, however, we were much better. We fought for every ball, showing a clearly superior physical condition. We came close twice and were just a hair’s breadth away from overtaking.”

Vultaggio again: “Unfortunately we missed the last spark, moments of lack of clarity made us waste some balls and in the end, in the last 20 seconds, we were punished by a negative episode which gave our opponents +2 and victory. Honestly, I can’t blame the boys for much, as they produced a superlative season. Unfortunately, the first home defeat came which definitively puts us out of the race for the top two places.”

Now it’s time to look to the future. “I cannot and do not want to give a negative signal to the team, we have already been working for several days to build an important team, with the aim of trying to climb again immediately next year, strengthened by the experience and the great season we have Done. It will also be very important for us to finish well, finish the play-off pool as high as possible and then possibly play for the possibility of asking for reinstatement in the higher category, even if at the moment I feel like ruling out this eventuality. Finally, we ask our public to continue to support us as they always have: we will try to improve further” concludes Vultaggio.

This is the playoff ranking: Bologna United 9 points, Belluno 8, San Vito Marano 8, Team Mascalucia 5, Prato 3, MONTEPRANDONE 3.

Photo source: HC Monteprandone press office