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Summers. The HRK Motta climbs into the A2. Last night, after a final dominated on the Med Store Macerata taraflex (1-3), the green-and-white team obtained their second promotion in just 3 years (from B to A2) and in their second season in A3, after interruptions due to the pandemic, quarantines and avalanches of tampons won, most deservedly, the promotion. And it is the second time, after that of 6 years ago, but this time the taste is different, because everything is different.
The fans celebrate at the PalaGrassato who last night, with all the permits, filling out the certifications, watched Gamba and his companions’ fantastic ride in the Marche region watching on the big screen. The great protagonists of the ride celebrate the success. They cry, hug each other, await the outcome of the last video check, after an epochal mistake by Margutti. Then they explode with joy, irrepressible, intoxicated with joy, enthusiastic. It is the victory of a company that has started from scratch, after the risk of disappearing. It is the success of a team that proves to be the strongest on the pitch. It is the triumph of a municipality, Motta, which is a candidate for the European city of sport not by chance. It is the apotheosis of a province, that of Treviso where volleyball is at home. Here sin has been sown for 30 years, passing through the Sisley and arriving at the Imoco, and to the Mottensian lions capable of getting on the national stage.
Yesterday’s race sees an immediately brilliant Motta who wants to close the accounts and above all turn around after the negative away matches in the quarterfinals in Turin and in the semifinals in Pineto. The guests contain Dennis and fly in the final with a dampening from De Marchi: 22-24. Gamba closes it diagonally: 23-25. In the second set there is the return of Macerata: 25-22. In the third it is the walls on Dennis and the attacks in the center that make the difference for Motta, although Alberini does not get up perfectly: 13-17. The management of the advantage is excellent. Wall on Dennis: 20-24. Gamba closes it after some apprehension: 22-25. The apotheosis in the fourth set. The HRK is always ahead, but the lions get the right break in the serve, with three aces by Gamba (14-16), by Saibene, 15-19, finally by Scaltriti, 16-22: this is the only point of the captain, the most important of his career. Lions get 8 match points with Gamba: 16-24. The rest is history. HRK Motta wins: 17-25 and 1-3. Motta says goodbye and climbs to A2. Time to celebrate. –