There Virtus Cagliari he is champion of Serie B Regional. Fabrizio Staico’s team also beat the team in game two Cus Cagliari and thus won the playoffs of the island’s top women’s basketball tournament. It was a perfect journey for the Virtussins, without a defeat between the regular season and the post-season. However, the season is not over: the chance to try to conquer the women’s A2 now opens up.
Result
After the 71-42 in the first leg in via Pessagno, the second and decisive match of the series was held in Sa Duchessa. With the blue and whites getting the better of Striulli and her teammates 47-39. The match was balanced until the final period, with the final minutes deciding a contest in which the maximum advantage achieved was the +5 at the start of the second quarter. The work under the scoreboards of Caldaro and Gagliano, but also the good response of Striulli and Salvemme, kept Cus alive. The university teams only lacked the strength to make an impact at the start of the last quarter, when the distance was reduced to just one possession at 37-39. Moment in which Virtus instead found in Lucchini the main resource of its attack until success. Virtus confirmed itself thus for the third regional champion once in a row, while Cus after a year in B will have to wait to be able to replay their chances of returning to that A2 left after the playouts last season. However, it will not be easy for the girls from Staico to reach their goal. First of all, we will need success in the play-off against Feba Civitanova Marche, third place in the final four promotions of the Lazio-Marche Serie B group, scheduled for 12 and 19 May, with the first match being away from Sardinia. The passage of the round would bring the islanders to the number one concentration, together with the first place in the Lombardy group, the second place in the Emilia-Romagna group and the second place in the Triveneto group.
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