L’Unieuro Forlì passes to the Serie A2 semi-finals where they will find Pallacanestro Trieste, who beat Torino 3-0. Coach Antimo Martino’s team does not fail in Game 4, dominating at home Elachem Vigevano and closing the score 3-1. After a balanced first half, 23-26, the guests extended their lead with an 11-30 break in the second period, putting the match in the safe. Finish 69-95 (23-26; 11-30; 16-23; 19-16).
Elachem They lived: Leardini 4, Bettanti, Smith 12, Wideman 8, Bertoni 3, Ceron, D’Alessandro, Strautmanis ne, Bertetti 3, Battistini 13, Rossi 14, Peroni 12, D’Alessandro ne
Unieuro Forlì: Valentini 21, Zampini 10, Pollone 3, Johnson 16, Magro 8, Cinciarini 15, Pascolo 10, Radonjic 5, Tassone 3, Munari 4, Zilio, Borciu.
The match. In a fast-paced start to the match, Forlì started off finding good continuity in attack thanks to points from Pascolo and Valentini, with the latter immediately hot from within 6.75. The Lomellina formation, however, responds promptly. The red and whites continue to find a good rhythm in the offensive phase also thanks to Cinciarini, who shoots with very high percentages, and the first quarter ends 23-26. In the second 10′ of the game the Romagna players, thanks to the defensive pressure, pulled away from the Lomellina team. Ahead from small break to small break, Forlì increasingly widens the gap in the score. Triples from Radonjic, Cinciarini and Zampini rewrote the maximum advantage during the second quarter. But it is captain Cinciarini, close to the long interval, who scores the +22 with two free throws. The first half ends at 34-56.
The second half opens with good initiatives from Johnson. Forlì continues, thanks to the aggressive defense, to find a good rhythm in attack, where thanks to three triples by Valentini and a basket by Pascolo it finds the maximum advantage at +32 at 4’50” with the scoreboard of the Lomellino facility at 39-71 . The opponents interrupt the break at 05’21”, but the red and whites respond promptly with baskets from the arc by Valentini and Zampini. The third quarter ends with 2 points from Johnson, which gives Forlì a +29. At the beginning of the last quarter the red and whites struggled to find the basket due to Vigevano’s defensive aggressiveness, but broke the opponent’s break with baskets from Johnson and Munari, who entered 8 minutes before the bell. Coach Martino also unfreezes Zilio and Borciu from the bench, who enter the field with 3’08” left. The red and whites continue to lead the way, and a good basket from Munari closes the match.
