Bocce, flight: Falconieri, Torello and Bordin are the new baby champions of Italy

Noventa di Piave, after the final four women’s championship, experienced another intense weekend as a protagonist with the Italian Under 18 and Under 15 Flight Championships. Five tricolor titles awarded: three Individuals and two Pairs.

The champions of Italy

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Mattia Falconieri (athlete of the Young Blue Club) of the Lower Pont-Saint-Martin Valley is the new Italian champion of the Individual Under 18. The player from Aosta defeated his teammate Matteo Golfetto 10-2 in the final. Niccolò Torello of GS La Boccia Savona won the tricolor competition in the Individual Under 15. In the final, 8-7, Diego Verganti of the company La Perosina was beaten. The Venetian Martina Bordin della Bocciofila Pederobba is the Italian champion of the Individual Under 18 female. In the final ko, 13-5, Cristina Budai del Buttrio. In the tricolor event in pairs, two pairs of the Astigiana Pro Valfenera win: the Under 18s Patrick Artusio-Samuele Artusio (beaten in the final 13-5 by Matteo Bardella and Christian Iaboni of Beinettese) and the Under 15s Gianluca Bortoli-Luca Vercelli after beating the Borgonese duo, made up of Matteo Macario and Stefano Versino, in the final 7-2.

Important numbers

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Competition with important numbers with 96 athletes involved: 51 Under 18, 42 Under 15 and three Under 12, the latter included in three Under 15 pair formations. For the FIB present, at the weekend, the federal councilors Maurizio Andreoli (head of ‘Youth Sports Activities) and Orietta Calonego. “Noventa di Piave has inaugurated the weekends dedicated to young athletes of the Flight specialty, on which there is great attention because the boys represent the future of our movement – the comment of the federal president Marco Giunio De Sanctis -. After the five Italian titles awarded in Veneto, in fact, the team finals are about to start. The Under 18s will meet in Cussignacco, on July 24th and 25th, for the final eight Scudetto; the Under 15s, on the other hand, will take the field again on 7 and 8 August, in Centallo, for the assignment of the Italian team title ”. “My congratulations go to the new Italian champions – continued De Sanctis – The five Italian titles went to athletes from four different regions: Valle d’Aosta, Piedmont, Veneto and Liguria. This is a sign that the companies of the Flight, in Northern Italy, are working well and there is a certain balance among the boys, in some cases leveled upwards ”. “The hope for the future – I will never tire of repeating it – is that everyone in all territories works to ensure that all specialties are practiced”, concluded the president of the FIB.

The final rankings

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Individual Under 18 men:

1st Mattia Falconieri (Lower Pont-Saint-Martin Valley); 2nd Matteo Golfetto (Lower Valley); 3rd Nicolò Gallina (Bujese) and Simone Mana (Beinettese).

Individual Under 15 men:

1st Niccolò Torello (GS La Boccia Savona); 2nd Diego Verganti (La Perosina); 3rd Jacopo Zambon (Saranese) and Cristian Muzzatti (Quadrifoglio).

Individual Under 18 female:

1st Martina Bordin (Bocciofila Pederobba); 2nd Cristina Budai (Buttrio); 3rd Claudia Tonon (Noventa di Piave) and Giada Maria Pia Bertolusso (Borgonese).

1st Patrick Artusio – Samuele Artusio (Pro Valfenera); 2nd Matteo Bardella – Cristian Iaboni (Beinettese); 3rd Andrea Lorenzetto – Christian Iurilli (Saranese) and Simone Mana-Steven Enrico Piramidi (Beinettese).

1st Gianluca Bortoli – Luca Vercelli (Pro Valfenera); 2nd Matteo Macario-Stefano Versino (Borgonese); 3rd Giada Maria Fraraccio-Davide Lessio (Noventa di Piave) and Nicolò Buniva and Matteo Costa (Auxilium).