After the surprise defeat in Game 3, the Shark drills he doesn’t make a mistake a second time and conquers the playoff semifinal closing the series against 3-1 the Assigeco Piacenza. Dominant game for the guests who, after starting at 10-8, extended their lead with a 12-0 run and scored 29 points in the first quarter alone. Piacenza manages to limit the damage by closing the first half of the match at -9. The same happens in the third quarter, with Trapani trying to extend the lead several times without actually managing to increase its lead in the end. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Serpilli’s bomb was worth -8, but the Sharks restarted with baskets from Imbrò, Gentile and Alibegovic (MVP with 22 points on the scoresheet). Then comes the decisive break, Assigeco can’t take it anymore and gives up: 68-85 the final result.
UCC Assigeco Piacenza – Trapani Shark 68-85 (19-29, 20-19, 19-21, 10-16)
UCC Assigeco Piacenza: Giovanni Veronesi 16 (1/3, 2/8), Brady Skeens 14 (5/8, 0/0), Michele Serpilli 13 (2/4, 3/5), Ursulo D’almeida 8 (3 /4, 0/0), Filippo Gallo 6 (3/5, 0/1), Lorenzo Querci 5 (1/1, 1/3), Federico Bonacini 4 (1/2, 0/3), Gherardo Sabatini 2 (1/2, 0/3), Milos Joksimovic 0 (0/0, 0/0), Matteo Gherardini 0 (0/0, 0/0), Niccolo Filoni 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Trapani Shark: Amar Alibegovic 22 (7/10, 2/4), Chris Horton 18 (9/11, 0/0), Matteo Imbro 16 (2/2, 4/5), Jd Notae 11 (4/6, 1/4), Stefano Gentile 10 (3/4, 0/1), Pierpaolo Marini 5 (1/2, 0/1), Fabio Mian 3 (0/2, 1/5), Marco Mollura 0 (0/ 1, 0/2), Rei Pullazi 0 (0/0, 0/3), Joseph Yantchoue Mobio 0 (0/1, 0/1), Fabrizio Pugliatti 0 (0/0, 0/0)
