Basketball Serie B: College Borgomanero beats Consorzio Leonardo 80-77

Borgomanero College 80Leonardo Consortium 77

COLLEGE : Benzoni 19, Asani 3, Gaiola 15, D'Amelio 5, Bazan 20, Osagie 3, Osasuyi 13, Rupil 2, Oliveri, Giustina, Charfi, Martino. Coach: Di Cerbo.LEONARDO QUARRATA CONSORTIUM: Angelucci 28, Mongelli 2, Artioli 8, Nyuol, Balducci 8, Molteni 8, Calabrese 10, Diks, Regoli 9, Antonini 4, Babovic, Tiberti. Coach Tonfoni. Referees: Sarzano and Quattrocchi. Partials: 18-21, 34-36, 55-53.

The fall that doesn't hurt. In a PalaDonBosco Borgomanero sold out, the second phase of the championship ends with a defeat Interregional Serie B for Consortium Leonardo Services and Works QuarrataThe furniture team gives in 80-77 to college basketball, which although it was struggling with some defections concludes the Play-In Gold with an excellent and precious fourth place. For Quarrata, instead, waiting for the other matches, it is seventh place, but what matters most is the playoffs assured with one round to spare. The match is balanced. As happened in the first leg, the challenge is decided in the final moments, after the team trained by coach Alberto Tonfoni - deprived for the occasion of Tiberti, on the bench only for the sake of appearances - had managed to recover from the -10 of the 33'. With Dany Basket ahead by two lengths in the last minute of the game, Benzoni scores the triple that is worth +1 for the Piedmontese with 29 seconds to go. Quarrata, dragged up to that moment by a sumptuous Angelucci (28 points, his best score wearing the white and blue jersey), fails to respond and on the counterattack Osasuyi sinks the dunk for 80-77 with which the duel will be archived. Yes, because Antonini's last desperate attempt from 3 points is not lucky and the one celebrating is the college basketball, fourth in the playoff grid precisely. To know the final positioning of Balducci and his teammates, however, it will be necessary, as anticipated, to wait for the outcome of the other matches scheduled in this last round of the Play-In Gold. The hosts deserve applause, however, as they played an excellent game despite having to deal with the significant absences of Broggi and Piccirilli.

Gianluca Barni