Pavia thus conquers the semifinal of the tournament of Bernareggio D’Alessandro in a big way, steps forward in defense
PAVIA
Omnia beats Lumezzane on the first day of the Bernareggio tournament with a daring 76-75 in a point-to-point final (Simoncelli 12, Donadoni 1, Torgano 3, Sgobba 10, Corral 20, Conte 5, D’Alessandro 17, Calzavara 8 ). The Pavia players have shown that they are still lagging behind in teamwork and workloads. However, they started better than usual and showed what their trademark is: the fight to the last second, which this time means triple the victory of Corral. Pavia will play the semifinal tomorrow at 9pm.
The Omnia at the start, suffers less in defense than the other tests, is more aggressive and in attack immediately finds a deluxe size D’Alessandro (14 points at the end of the first half, 10 – 4). Coach Fabio Di Bella rotates eight players, his team builds good shots but once again the three-point percentages are meager (0/5 in the first quarter), so the newly promoted Lumezzane takes advantage of it and with two triple from Scanzi makes up for it. , held behind by Corral’s basket on the siren (19 – 18, 10 ‘). In the second quarter the center of the Brescia team Agostini enters the rhythm, putting 8 consecutive points (24 – 29, 14 ‘). Pavia first comes to draw 31 – 31, then in the final puts his head forward with the effectiveness of D’Alessandro and the defensive aggressiveness of Conte (36 – 33, 20 ‘). Corral rises in level with two consecutive triples, but Lumezzane dragged by Scanzi remains attacked (47 – 46, 25 ‘). Pavia struggles in attack and it is enough for Mastrangelo to put 5 points in a row for the freshman from Brescia to extend (56 – 59, 30 ‘). Simoncelli enters the scene, who begins to find the basket and with the three children and Simoncelli and Conte share the burden of carrying the ball forward (59 – 61, 34 ‘).
Final to the photo finish
The epilogue is point to point. Calzavara signs the overtaking, but the defense guilty forgets Mastrangelo who responds with the triple of the draw (68 – 71, 38 ‘). A heart-pounding final, with Pavia showing off all his character and putting five points in a row in six seconds, with a triple from Torgano and a recovery from Simoncelli (73 – 73, 39’46). Scanzi puts in the basket of advantage with 4 seconds left, but on the throw-in from Pavia Corral pockets the prayer of victory on the siren. –