A wide result (90-63), with the home team also reaching Trentello: the field, in fact, said that Canusium is a far from easy opponent for Solimini’s club, which in addition to being defeated in the first match of the series they also lost two out of two regular season games played against the rossoblu team. A clear sign of how the result of race 1 is not so random after all. «Congratulations to Canusium for the excellent performance in race 1 – said captain Giuseppe Ippedico -. They were very attentive to details, playing with excellent intensity. In disbelief at the defeat? No, we are because of how it arrived: heavy, ugly and at the limits of having expressed what we said to each other during the week. Truly a match to forget in all respects.”
The red and whites want to extend the series to game -3. On Thursday evening, coach Gesmundo’s Pavimaro has the chance to get to 1-1 and not let Canusium fly into the final. «We are 0-1 down in the series, beyond having lost by 1 or 30 – continued Ippedico -, we start again not from what was not expressed in game 1, but from truly being a team as we have been throughout the whole season. year, no more, no less, with a little more pride.” The guests, coached by coach Ciociola, and who have signed Acosta since January (absent in Molfetta, he has an average points of 17.2), can also count on Ordine (20.5 average points per game, 27 points in game 1), Migliori (15.1 on average) and Murolo (13.9 on average).
Furthermore, to extend the series to game 3, the Molfetta association invokes the support of its fans which is fundamental in matches like this: the response to the pre-sale was excellent, the celebratory t-shirts were pulverized as a gift for the first 100 tickets sold. The appointment, therefore, is for Thursday 2 May at the PalaPoli, in a competition in which only accreditations for CONI, FIP members and for the press will be valid. Tap-off at 8.30pm, gates open at 7.30pm.
