At PalaDesio theSan Bernardo Cantù water lands a good blow to the UEB Gesteco Cividale and goes 2-0 in the series, with the possibility of closing it now in Game 3 on the road. After a balanced first half that closed at +2, the Brianza team took control of the match with a 23-11 score in the third half. In the last ten minutes coach Cagnardi’s team also reaches +20: the final score says 84-67 (16-17, 22-19, 23-11, 23-20).
Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù – UEB Gesteco Cividale 84-67 (16-17, 22-19, 23-11, 23-20)
S.Bernardo Cantù water: Solomon Young 16 (5/8, 2/3), Anthony Hickey 16 (4/5, 2/5), Christian Burns 15 (6/10, 0/0), Stefan Nikolic 12 (6/7, 0/ 2), Riccardo Moraschini 11 (1/5, 2/3), Filippo Baldi rossi 7 (2/3, 1/3), Lorenzo Bucarelli 5 (1/4, 1/4), Luca Cesana 2 (1/2 , 0/3), Nicola Berdini 0 (0/1, 0/0), Edoardo Del cadia 0 (0/0, 0/0), Gabriele Tarallo 0 (0/1, 0/0), Carlo Tosetti 0 ( 0/0, 0/0)
UEB Gesteco Cividale: Doron Lamb 17 (5/7, 1/3), Gabriele Miani 13 (4/5, 1/5), Leonardo Marangon 8 (2/3, 1/3), Lucio Redivo 7 (3/4, 0/ 5), Giacomo Dell’aggi 6 (2/7, 0/0), Eugenio Rota 6 (0/0, 2/3), Martino Mastellari 6 (0/1, 2/6), Matteo Berti 4 (1/ 3, 0/0), Luca Campani 0 (0/0, 0/0), Andrea Baldini 0 (0/0, 0/0), Shaka Balladino 0 (0/0, 0/0)
The match
Baldi Rossi and Lamb are the first to move the scoreboard. Young and Nikolic try to push Acqua S.Bernardo, but Cividale remains glued.
Cantù draws the energy of Burns from the bench, who tries to encourage an extension. However, Miani scores the last basket of the quarter and puts the team ahead of him 16-17.
Lamb reaches double figures, but on the other side Baldi Rossi and Moraschini heat up, putting Cantù back ahead. Hickey and Young manage to dig the first furrow, gaining a two-possession lead. The low percentages make the game close and nervous. In the final Cividale manages to shorten the lead and closes 38-36.
Hickey and Young open the second half with two triples, Acqua S.Bernardo accelerates again and reaches +9. Rota tries to keep his team in the wake, but Burns and Hickey set PalaDesio alight, once again increasing their maximum lead to +13. Another wild Young scores the last basket, which closes the quarter at 61 to 47.
The last quarter is a white-blue monologue: Young is unstoppable and drags Acqua S.Bernardo into a further extension, closed by the +20 achieved with Cesana’s counterattack. The match effectively ends there, in the remaining minutes the home team manages the advantage. The mermaid
