Endiasfalti Agliana challenges Garden Toscana Resort in the Serie C Unica playoffs

THEAgliana asphalt finishers coach Giulio Gambassi has learned the name of the next opponent on the road to promotion: the Garden Toscana Resort San VincenzoThe Livorno team surprisingly eliminated the favourite Fides Montevarchi, the real dominator of the regular season of the Single C Series, narrowly defeated at home (66-67) in the first round of the playoff. For coach Paludi's Arezzo team, a truly bitter epilogue to a season that had seen them dominate the first part of the championship, with 27 wins out of 31 games. In the playoffs, however, a change of pace is needed and that is what San Vincenzo did, capable of overturning the odds and taking the series win with a basket at the buzzer by Camillo Bianchi.

In the second round of the playoffs Agliana will have the advantage of the home field. Next Sunday, May 11, starting at 18:1 pm at the Pala Capitini in Agliana, Endisfalti and Garden Toscana Resort will compete in game-2 of the second round; game-14, instead, will be played on Wednesday, May 21, starting at 18:18 pm in the seaside resort of Livorno. The possible play-off is scheduled for Sunday, May 2, again from 0:XNUMX pm in Agliana. In the other semifinal of the playoffs, Pallacanestro Prato Dragons will face off, who eliminated Pino Dragons Firenze, and Sancat Firenze, who beat Pallacanestro Valdisieve. All three challenges reached the tiebreaker; the only one to have won its series XNUMX-XNUMX against Union Basket Prato was Agliana. But what happened to the invincible (or almost) Montevarchi? The president of Endisfalti Agliana, Simone Caramelli, responded. "The Arezzo basketball players arrived at these playoffs physically exhausted and even more so mentally. They couldn't handle the pressure and San Vincenzo deservedly won. Now it's up to us to face San Vincenzo".

Gianluca Barni