Cerignola basketball remains on promotion

There Mediterranean ‘ninety two he did it. The Cerignola basketball team achieves salvation and remains in promotion. A result that is by no means a given and which acquires greater value if one considers that it arrived after a season which ended in last position and by winning the play-offs against Torremaggiore 67 to 46, an opponent who on paper started with the advantage of a better place in the standings. The team thus wins the right to compete in the championship again next year FIP regional promotion championship.

The goal achieved confirms what the company’s programs were at the beginning of the season: salvation and enhancement of the nursery. This year, Mediterranea was the youngest team in the tournament, made up mostly of athletes from Cerignola, many of whom, despite not yet being of age, have demonstrated that they can handle the pitch well and under the guidance of the two coaches (both from Cerignola). Matteo Digiorgio And Pierantonio Menduni they achieved salvation against teams made up of much more experienced players.

Following the policy that the club guides, the team has found space for athletes almost all from the youth sector, such as the two sixteen-year-olds Lorenzo Pepperone of the best prospects of the Cerignola nursery and the Foggia area Samuel Livini from this year aggregated to the under 17s. Having put safety aside, we now look to the next championship with the awareness of being able to count on a more proven team.

We will start again with the nineteen-year-old captain Anthony Marano which already boasts three years of militancy in the senior championships which will be joined by a team made up of players who will be able to count on the experience gained this year in the category and ready to get back into the game in a team that can be completed with the addition of some a more experienced element who will aim to play a calmer championship with an eye on the playoffs.

This is the team of very young athletes who participated in this year’s championship, supported by the warmth of the fans who accompanied them during the races held at Pala Tatarella.

Antonio Marano (19), Andrea Digiorgio (24), Walter Russo (22), Marco Daniello (22), Manuel Livini (20), Michele Delvecchio (19), Felice Doria (19), Alessandro Carbonaro (18), Teodoro Carpinelli (18), Giulio Borrelli (17), Lorenzo Pepe (16), Alberto Carbonaro (16), Samuele Livini (16), Domenico Rizzi (37), Domenico Russo (48). The latter, a historic basketball player from Cerignola, bid farewell to basketball with the applause of the home crowd in his last match.