On Sunday the transfers of Riso Scotti to Torrenova and Elachem to Crema for the last day of phase-2. Play off from 16
PAVIA
The Serie B playoff calendar has been made official, with Pavia and Vigevano already qualified for some time: quarter-finals from May 16 (18, 21, 23, 26 the other dates of the series), semi-finals from 30 (1, 4 , 6, 9 June the other races), finals from 13 (15, 18, 20, 23).
At Riso Scotti Punto Edile there is still a game to end the regular season – a trip to Sicily with Torrenova – which will however have a fundamental importance for the final classification and therefore for the play off pairings. If the Pavesi were to win they would reach 30 points and at that point they would have done the maximum possible and would look at the results of Juvi Cremona and Crema. In the event of a points finish with Cremona, that is, if the Cremonese team were to win and Pavia lose, Riso Scotti would close in seventh place, as Momo Tourè’s team beat Pavia twice in the regular season. If Pavia and Crema were tied, which still have two games to recover due to Covid, one with Cremona and the other at PalaBasletta in Vigevano, the Pavesi would be sixth because the only team to have overcome Riso Scotti so far. in the clock phase it is Crema. If Cremona, Crema and Pavia reached equal points in the standings, the team of coach Di Bella would close in fifth place for the basket quotient.
The situation in group A, from which the eight rivals of b will arise, is instead much more complex, because there are teams like Chiusi who have to play four games in eight days to conclude the clock phase. Chiusi is one of the favorites but in practice they will always play and never train, so anything could happen. The ranking sees apart Livorno first with 34 points and Rimini second with 30 but no match to recover, four teams with 28 points: Chiusi (4 fewer games), San Miniato and Omegna (two fewer games) and Faenza (one game in less).
Vigevano finds Cucchiaro again
Elachem Vigevano, for its part, recovers the last of the championship on Sunday against Crema away at 6 pm. . The ducals still in the running for third place tied with Bernareggio thus had the opportunity to recover and the two players who did not play the last home game with Palermo due to injury, Valerio Cucchiaro and Mario Bevilacqua. Cucchiaro will be there to all intents and purposes, while Bevilacqua is still in the recovery phase, and will perhaps be able to play some remnants of the game, since he trained alone during the week. The dukedom’s Sunday challenge is the last one before the playoffs, which start on May 16th. «With Crema it will be a hard-fought match – warns coach Paolo Piazza – if we win against Crema we are third, while they can still get from 4th to 7th place. We do not yet know our opponent in the playoffs, because in the other round there are so many games to be recovered that it is difficult to make predictions ». Meanwhile, Crema will recover the match against Fiorenzuola today. –
M.Sc.-A.Bal.