With a very high head.
At the end of a “crazy” season against all predictions on the eve, Dierre bids farewell to the championship as a true revelation, failing to win for the third time in the season at the Palalivatino in Gela.
The match and the round are for Melfa’s, very good at overturning the series, after the score of zero to one in the debut match.
Honor goes to Gela, a team that will now be the next opponent of the regular season leaders, Basket Academy Catanzaro.
Coach Cotroneo’s boys were the protagonists of a wonderful season: compliments galore from professionals, fans and opposing teams for a season to be framed and emulated.
The news:
Dierre starts very well.
First important break.
Clean play and essential but effective solutions.
10 to 17 after six minutes causes Gela to time out.
Upon exiting the TimeOut, Gela immediately catches it again with two triples.
Laganà from three sends his team ahead by 6.
One hundred seconds from the end of the first quarter, Romeo scores a nice basket for 17 to 24 (19. 24 at the end of the first period).
In the second period, Dierre resisted until overtaking, after four minutes signed by Stanic’s triple.
Barrile and Vigoriti respond to their opponents’ attacks.
It’s a real point to point.
We go into halftime at 40-38.
In the third period, Melfa’s split the challenge in two.
Luigi Dispinzeri’s triple pushes the locals away on plus nine, causing coach Cotroneo’s immediate time-out.
All finished? Don’t tell Dierre. Barrile, Vukosavljievic, Romeo score from long range.
The match returns to balance before two baskets, one from three and one from two, by the local captain, Orazio Ventura (60-55).
In the fourth period, Gela started better.
Disspinzeri and his associates fly ahead, once again on the plus nine (66-57).
Danilo Vukosavljievic has an immense desire to win and signs the new minus four, from long range.
Melfa’a doesn’t stand by and reacts with Stanic and Gaspare Caiola.
Stanic himself scores the triple of plus eleven with 4.16 to go.
Dierre will put her heart into it, until the end, with extreme correctness, receiving the applause of the Palalivatino audience. For statistics, yet another maxi performance from Fortunato Barrile, author of 27 points and top scorer of the match. 24 for Luigi Dispinzeri, 16 Emanuele Caiola, 11 Gaspare Caiola and 10 Longo for Gela.
Finishes 84 to 69.
Melfa’s Gela-Dierre 84 to 69
(19-24,21-14,20-17,26-14)
Gela: Cardone, Bernardo, Caiola E. 16, Guarnaccia 1, Longo 10, Dozic, Dispinzeri, Dispinzeri L. 24, Caiola G. 11, Stanic 8. All Bernardo Ass Savarese
Dierre: Romeo 6,Ripepi 8, Miculis 7,Surfaro,Vigoriti 6,Lavigne 3,Barrile 27,Fazzari,Laganà 4.All Cotroneo
Referees Federico Catalano from Pedara and Giuseppe Catania from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.
