Padova advances to the final. Sensational final match between the two teams. With the first leg having smiled on Puianello (51-52), the second leg was also played point by point. We enter the last minute at 58-58, with the home team carrying the ball and letting the time pass before losing the ball, starting the away counterattack with Pilli who finds himself on the line thirty seconds from the end: the number 4 it’s 1/2 with 58-59 equalizing the difference in goals. In the following action Antonello stops Olajide ten seconds from time with a foul, with Giroldi immediately calling a timeout. We start again with a goal kick: Raiola receives the ball, but loses it under Antonello’s pressure, generating a solitary counterattack with six seconds left. This was enough to get to the basket and suffer the foul on Dettori’s desperate return with one second and nine cents left. The number 40 of the Venetians, as expected, scores the first and misses the second, thus signing the guest blitz which is worth the final.
PUIANELLO BASKETBALL – PALL.GATTAMELATA PADUA 58-60 (9-12, 25-29, 42-46)
PUIANELLO: Oppo, Olajide 17, Manzini 6, Luppi 2, Corradini none, Albertini none, Dettori 13, Dzinic, Raiola 17, Cherubini, Graffagnino none, Gizynska 3. Coach Giroldi
PADUA: Marcon, Pilli 11, Salmaso, Cognolato 7, Boaretto 6, Meneghini 2, Gambarin 3, Angelini 8, Sorrentino 6, Antonello 17. All.Tomei
