Mortara closes the playoffs with a knockout but the balance of the year is positive

MORTARA

The excellent season in Serie C Gold of the Expo Inox Mortara ends in race 2 with the clear defeat suffered Thursday evening at home in Parona at the hands of the very favorite Esse Solar Gallarate who passes 54-75. In reality, competitive, the series ended on the controversial and unfortunate final of race 1 last Saturday in Gallarate with the defeat in the sprint of the yellow and blue lomellini who had been able to surprise the Varese team and stay ahead for a large part of the challenge before an epilogue not without recriminations. In fact, at the race 2 appointment, Gallarate showed up in the toughest and most appropriate mental set up for technical caliber and ambitions and was a completely different game right from the start, oriented with an immediate 2-9 start. Coach Alfonso Zanellati’s team with pride then made up for it, even overtaking with Bazani at 14-13 and 17-16, but in the final part of the fraction Calzavara alone produced the break for the 17-22 of the first break. Mortara scores with a dropper in the second set, De Bettin and Danelutti reopen the gap (22-33) which from this moment on will no longer fall below the double digits (29-37 at the long break). The start of the second part of the race is what makes the credits roll because Garcia is injured in the locker room due to a gesture of anger and will return only at the end of the race, while Sacchi, already burdened with three fouls, commits the fourth and a useless and harmful technical foul is whistled, which definitively expels him from the challenge (31-42). In reduced ranks, coach Zanellati tries both the zone and tactically lengthening the team on the field, but his team scores only five points in the whole third fraction and the 34-59 at the last break already makes the credits roll well in advance . Zanellati asks for time and in any case a decent closure to his finished under 36-66 at the beginning of the last quarter, the reaction somehow arrives and the young players in the final partially reduce the gap making it somehow a little more acceptable. Game 2 of this play-off draw was decisive for each series, all of them ended 2-0 promoting to the next round, in addition to Gallarate, also Lumezzane, Gardonese and Iseo, in full compliance with the predictions. As for Expo Inox Mortara, it remains a largely positive season in which the goal was salvation and instead the playoffs have even arrived. Now, for the Gialloblù lomellino club, a period of reflection opens in consideration of the fact that the next one will be a transition championship that will save a few C Gold teams by qualifying them for the fourth series of the 2023-24 season. –

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