Cantù ends with a clear victory over Udine: Cividale in the playoffs

L’San Bernardo Cantù water closes the regular season by beating Udine For 78–65 with proof of authority. The blue and whites can look forward to the playoffs with confidence, where they will meet Cividale in the quarter-finals. On the other hand, the Friulians finish in third place, suffering their third defeat in a row, and will face JuVi Cremona.

S.Bernardo Cantù water: Filippo Baldi rossi 18 (1/4, 3/4), Riccardo Moraschini 12 (0/1, 3/4), Lorenzo Bucarelli 9 (3/4, 1/4), Solomon Young 9 (4/9, 0 /4), Luca Cesana 9 (1/1, 2/3), Anthony Hickey 8 (1/4, 2/3), Stefan Nikolic 7 (2/4, 0/2), Christian Burns 6 (3/5 , 0/1), Nicola Berdini 0 (0/0, 0/3), Carlo Tosetti 0 (0/0, 0/0), Filippo Clerici 0 (0/0, 0/0), Gabriele Tarallo 0 (0 /0, 0/0)

Apu Old Wild West Udine: Mirza Alibegovic 18 (5/9, 2/5), Diego Monaldi 14 (1/2, 4/9), Raphael Gaspardo 9 (2/8, 1/4), Quirino De laurentiis 8 (3/4, 0 /1), Iris Ikangi 7 (1/3, 1/3), Jalen Cannon 4 (2/3, 0/0), Matteo Da ros 3 (0/3, 1/2), Gianmarco Arletti 2 (1/ 2, 0/2), Marcos Delia 0 (0/0, 0/0), Jacopo Vedovato 0 (0/0, 0/0), Benjamin Marchiaro 0 (0/0, 0/0)

The match. Cannon scores the first two points of the match, Baldi Rossi responds on the other side. Balance at the start, with neither team able to take off. Udine tries to press on the accelerator, but it is a triple from Moraschini that gives Acqua S.Bernardo the first lead. Monaldi hits the siren at 16-16.

Moraschini and Nikolic push Cantù to +5. The blue and whites continue to press and extend further with Young and Cesana, reaching the double-digit lead. The maximum advantage count reaches +16, then Alibegovic unlocks Udine. In the final Cantù builds another mini-partial and goes into the break ahead 40-25.

Gaspardo tries to reduce the gap at the start of the second half and Udine gets back to within ten points of the deficit. Bucarelli and Nikolic unlock Cantù. Great balance from then on, with the Cantù advantage remaining stable. In the final, Acqua S.Bernardo extends the lead with Baldi Rossi, before Alibegovic’s last basket, which sets the score at 55-44.

Baldi Rossi is the protagonist of the start of the last set, with Cantù reaching +15 again. The Canturini can afford to control Udine’s last attempts to return and manage the advantage until the siren, which seals the victory of Acqua S.Bernardo 78-65.