Basketball – Caffè Toscano Pielle Livorno wins the regular season with a day to spare.
Victory for La Pielle with the 16th match in a row (21 of the last 22). Beats Herons Montecatini, third force in the group and winner of the Italian Cup, in front of the 5 thousand of the Modigliani Forum.
A perfect Sunday, to welcome the new member Beppe Costa and to seal a crazy regular season, so far made up of 28 victories and only five defeats.
But let’s get to the match: first quarter that flows by in substantial balance (22-21), waiting for Pielle to fuel up and set the score at the long interval at 41-34. In the second half the trend does not change, on the contrary. Campori and his associates shift into fourth gear and thanks to the offensive talent of Rubbini and Chiarini they reach a 17-point lead on two occasions. Game over? Not a chance. Herons are a great team and they demonstrate it by making up the gap in full and even putting their noses ahead at 70-72. Caffè Toscano, on the other hand, has a tremendous effort in finding the way to the basket, waiting to turn the light back on with Chiarini. We go to extra time, the two teams respond blow for blow but Pielle will have the upper hand, finishing with 91 to 87 and therefore achieving victory over the regular season.
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