Loreto Pesaro
89
Virtus Ragusa
79
LORETO: Rupil 3, Lovisotto 7, Cevolini ne, Battisti 11, Cipriani 7, Monterisi ne, Maruca 23, Tombari ne, Tognacci 4, Broglia 9, Martinez 12, Casoni 13. Coach Foglietti
RAGUSA: Brown 24, Piscetta 3, Epifani 3, Cioppa 1, Ugochukwu 7, Tumino ne, Vavoli 12, Sorrentino 3, Gaetano 26, Mirabelli ne, Calvi ne, Ianelli. All. Recupido
Notes – Partials: 28-24, 26-19, 15-16, 20-20. Progressives: 28-24, 54-43, 69-59, 89-79. Out for 5 fouls: Tognacci and Martinez (Pesaro); Gaetano (Ragusa)
This Ragusa is not invincible. Italservice Loreto wins game 2 of the promotion final at home at the PalaMegabox and equalizes the scores of this very balanced series. And now on Thursday at 8.30 pm the beautiful game is played in Sicily. Those who succeed fly to the National Serie B. After losing the first leg on the island, Pesaro gets excited in front of his fans and plays a vigorous match. For most of the match, the yellow and blues were with their faces forward, demonstrating confidence and determination. Even when the guests go back downstairs and try to reopen the meeting.
But president Lorenzo Pizza’s team holds onto their lead and finishes with a good margin of points. But the final result should not be deceiving: it was indeed a battle. During the challenge, everything happened. First Battisti gets injured. In fact, the point guard from Fano remained on the bench for part of the match and then returned in the hot phases leading his team to the very important success. Not only that, Maruca, who was largely absent in the first chapter of the saga, redeemed himself last night. For the yellow-blue number 10 at the end of the match there were 23 points and a lot of substance. The usual Casoni also did well. After two halves in which Loreto played with authority, in the second half Virtus began to tighten their defense.
From +14, Foglietti’s group found themselves at -6 in the last period 3 minutes from the sound of the siren. But Loreto remained clear, while the guests wasted a couple of opportunities to catch the Marche players. Two minutes from the end the coach also arrives at Battisti for simulation of a foul. Ragusa wastes the opportunity to get even closer. Then coach Recupito gets two technicians and is expelled. At that point the people of Pesaro do not dissipate the gap gained and give themselves the plane ticket to return to the south.
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