LA MOLISANA MAGNOLIA CAMPOBASSO 85
GIANTS MARGHERA 66
(22-13, 36-33; 64-50)
CAMPOBASSO: Trozzola 6, Del Sole 16, Bocchetti Ben. 13, Vitali 6, Moscarella Contreras 7; Quiñonez 32, Giacchetti 5, Boraldo, Mascia.Ne: Moffa GR, Del Colle and Costato. Annex: Diotallevi.
MARGHERA: Diodati 18, Castria 8, Merlini 4, Boccalato 16, Zennaro 10; Tasca, Speranzoni 7, Luraschi 3, Guerra. Ne: Zaccaria, Bortolozzo and Mario. Annex: Fuck.
REFEREES: Manganiello (Benevento) and Marianetti (Chieti).
NOTE: injury (blow to the head with game suspended for three minutes) at 26’14” (51-41) for Trozzola (Campobasso), who returned at 33’33” (70-54). Exits for five fouls Castria (Marghera) at 27’24” (55-41), Moscarella Contreras (Campobasso) at 27’53” (57-41) and Giacchetti (Campobasso) at 29’33” (62-48). Technical foul at 25’03” (48-39) for Diotallevi (coach Campobasso) and at 25’41” (57-41) for Cazzin (coach Marghera). Unsportsmanlike foul at 22’44” (44-37) for Diodati (Marghera) and at 23’05” (46-37) for Zennaro (Marghera). Score progression: 10-6 (5′), 28-24 (15′), 48-39 (25′), 74-59 (35′). Maximum advantage: Campobasso 19 (85-66); Marghera never.
It enters in the best possible way in the group of concentration two of the Serie B playoffs for promotion to A2. La Molisana Magnolia Campobasso has a clear advantage (by 19) over Marghera and guarantees a good margin in the future. The rossoblù managed to do so by sending three players in double figures with Quiñonez touching the trello, well supported by Del Sole and Bocchetti, who wrote the final word on the match.
AT SPRON BEAT The #steelflowers started strong straight away, taking two full possessions at 7-1. The Venetians get closer, but triples from Trozzola and Moscarella open a break in which Del Sole also enters (15-7). At that point the Venetians took refuge in the area, even if the end of the period still saw the rossoblù ahead by nine (22-13) thanks to Giacchetti’s triple.
INDIGESTED AREA Varying with the zone from 3-2 to 2-3 the Venetians try to ensnare the attack of the rossoblù who still manage to keep the bar straight with the triple from Trozzola and the baskets from Quiñonez, Del Sole and Vitali. The Venetians are not up for it and, at the long interval, there is only one possession between the two contenders (36-33), even if on the Campobasso front there is Giacchetti who has to deal with three fouls.
MORE OF EVERYTHING Upon returning from the locker rooms, Marghera tries to raise the volume of competitive intensity with the Magnolias also having to deal with the foul problems of Moscarella and Bocchetti. The visiting defense goes a little further (witness the two unsportsmanlike actions sanctioned to Diodati and Zennaro in twenty-one seconds) with Quiñonez opening the contest in two with his initiatives. In the middle of the period there are three full possessions of the lead which goes beyond double figures in the 30th minute (64-50) with a buzzer-beater worthy of applause from the same Ecuador prospect.
WINNING INERTIA In the final period, the Campobasso team soon managed to take a six-possession lead, but Marghera tried to respond, never managing to come back from a double-digit deficit and, indeed, ending up on her knees after triples from Bocchetti and Del Sole with her sister of art who definitively closes the score with a mid-range basket.
WITH REPORT CLOSED Obviously satisfied at the end, the rossoblù coach Gabriele Diotallevi: «I’ll start from the side that makes me happiest: the senior attitude of a youth team. The girls were good at managing the moments of tension in the best possible way, resolving the situations and managing the circumstances as best as possible, relaxing a little in the middle of the fourth period, but closing the contest in the best possible way with open shots.”
Then, particularly attentive to all aspects, he continues: «On the defensive front we gave them some baskets due to missed cuts in the first half and we were surprised by their cuts in the second half. These are aspects that we will work on in view of the return match.”
PARTICULAR TIMING As well as the forward comparison (a lunch match) the return to Veneto, to Marghera, will also have a location Sui generisthat of Monday evening (3 June) at 8 pm.
COMMUNICATION AREA MAGNOLIA CAMPOBASSO (Vincenzo Ciccone)
