Livorno The curse of the final continues. There’s no two without three. For the third consecutive year the Jolly Acli troop saw their dream of the national series shattered in the final and were forced to give way to their strong opponents from Basket Wamgroup Cavezzo. Jolly Acli wins, but it is Cavezzo who goes to Serie A, thanks to the difference in goals having won at home by 10 and lost here by 5. A defeat that hurts because everyone, from the club to the girls and the numerous supporters present, cared a lot and they believed in it for more than three quarters of the match. Then some poor choices from the bench and other episodes on the pitch – see Orsini’s injury when the team was performing at its best – compromised everything.
Verona from Emilia was monumental once again in this final series (24 points for her), a thorn in the side of the Livorno team who only managed to limit them in the final, thanks to an asphyxiating defense from Sassetti. First quarter of study with the Labronica team struggling to find conclusions from outside and their opponents good at containing them. In the following 10′ the rosablu’s zone defense bore the desired results with the Emilian team out of phase (6 points in 6′) and the Jolly finally gaining confidence with the basket driven by the determination of Ceccarini and the winning conclusions of Evangelista and Orsini.
Resumption and Jolly again protagonist who reached the plus 18 (53-34) after 4’30”, a gap which he managed to maintain until the beginning of the fourth and decisive quarter. Here, however, an infinite Verona took center stage and played the charge at the who managed to recover point after point and reach 4′ from the siren at 66-56, the Emilians with the expert Zanoli responded from below and with 1’44” from the end they were 11 points behind. But no miracle for Livorno and only so much concreteness for Cavezzo that he found the baskets to achieve the feat.
