Excellent home draw Padua against Itas Mutua Rovigo in the Venetian derby which compares last and first of the class respectively. In game 1 the visiting team showed their muscles with their usual pyrotechnic attack, scoring 19 hits and 12 points overall. After a good start for the Rovigo team thanks to the success of Savior and to the inaccuracies of the Paduan mountain, the home team overturned the result with 4 goals in the quarter, the result of doubles by Tuzzi And New. There’s no time to celebrate the advantage, however, as Rovigo takes the reins of the match with 5 points in the fifth (on the shields the 2-RBI triple by Buin). With a score of 7-4 we enter the last second half, when Soto’s team finally closes the score with another 5 points, which makes the next 3 point-men of the hosts useless, for the final result of 12-7.
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Great reaction from Castello’s team in game 2, who only needed one attack to score the 4 points that allowed them to snatch the day’s draw with a 4-2 victory. Super performance on the mound of Martinez, who conceded only 2 points in 8 rounds and scored 10 strikeouts. It is precisely thanks to the throws of the Paduan starter (and those of his opposing counterpart Pietrogrande) that the game remains balanced in its initial stages: we have to wait for the fifth second half to witness the decisive sliding door, when Padova scores 4 points in a big-inning in which the stars of Benetton (triple), New And Canache. Rovigo immediately tries to get back on track in the sixth with 2 points that bring them closer to the home team, but Padova’s wall withstands the impact and wins the second match of the day.
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A malfunction in the lighting system of the “Gasparidis” in Ronchi dei Legionari forces Gereon NBP And New Rimini to play only one match of the series, postponing the evening one. The result of game 1 is 10-6 in favor of the Panthers, who maintain their distance from the last place in the rankings thanks to a line-up in amazing shape (13 hits in total). Rimini puts its face forward in the second inning taking advantage of an error by the Friulian defense, but is immediately recovered and overcome by the serves of MiceuAnd Mendez. In sixth comes a further overtaking by Romagna with 5 points scored by Pods and from double of Chacon, but at 6-3 Furlan’s team didn’t give up and overturned the result with an offensive round of 7 scores which gave them a very important victory.
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Determining double of the Cagliari to the detriment of Farma Crocetta, which misses the opportunity to make up ground towards the top of the rankings and now has to look over its shoulder from the train in search of second place. At the municipal stadium in Iglesias, an interminable game-1 ended in the eleventh inning 9-8 for the hosts, always in perfect balance and in which the islanders prevailed thanks to their determination to bring home the success. Double of Rosales at the first he drives home 3 RBI for Cagliari, which holds the advantage until the fifth inning at 4-1, before being overtaken by 5 Parma scores in a single attack: thanks to the hits of Zoni, Laise, broad bean And Square. Another 2 Sardinian points fix the partial at 6-6, with which regular time ends: in the extra-innings 2 scores on each side keep the score in balance, but it is in the eleventh that the single by Turin brings the curtain down on 9-8 at home.
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However, it was completely different in game 2, won again without any problems by Cagliari with a score of 12-2 due to obvious inferiority to seventh. The first three attacks were enough to virtually conclude the match, thanks to 10 points scored with the collaboration of the clubs Turino, Rodriguez, Rosales And Delgado. Sambucci And Gerali they try to play the charge for Crocetta with 2 bars that bring as many points, but the gap is too much to be filled and so they think about it Cuesta it’s still Turin to close the issue early in favor of the Sardinians with the final 12-2. Good work Alvarez on the mountain of Cagliari (winning with 7.0 ip, 2 er).
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by Edoardo Draghetti
The results of the round. C: Gereon NBP Ronchi-New Rimini 10-6, renewed., Padua-Itas Mutua Rovigo 7-12, 4-2; Cagliari-Farma Crocetta 9-8 (11th inn), 12-2 (7th inning).
Classification: Rovigo (11-5), .688; Crocetta (9-7), .563; Cagliari (8-8), .500; New Rimini (7-8), .466; Ronchi (6-9), .400; Padua (6-10), .375.
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In the archive photo, a swing by Alvarez of Cagliari (credit: Duck Photo Press)
