UDINE. Not with a match to remember, with many mistakes but always a good defense, the Old Wild West reaches the Supercoppa semifinal and tonight at 9 pm they will face the fearsome Treviglio.
Low score, not very low, from minibasket with the two teams that produce a 7-9 in 10 ‘for the Emilians who says it all about wet powders. Cento is not a team to throw away with Tomassini he has clarity in the direction, a good American, but you think that for the APU it is enough to defend hard, give some gifts and wait for the attack to get underway.
Not at all, even if Walters makes himself heard after seeing another good start from Pellegrino from the bench, the others do not follow the boy from Chattanooga Tennessie, location of the Lipton Ice Tea commercial with Dan Peterson. With James Cento he rejoices and Boniciolli sees bad things on the pitch.
Scafati has lost, the road to that trophy to be raised has one less obstacle: why not take advantage of it? Certainly the environment from Lignanobasket from the end of August, and not even those to remember with very few spectators, does not encourage battle. Lautier, enterprising and precise, and a bit of defense, despite the ballast of 2 out of 15 from three, put the Apu back on track in the middle of the game: 22-23.
Mid-game, not the end of the first quarter, it is better to specify it given the score. Udine wants to win: defense, captain Antonutti on the ball, concrete Italian. But at the latest in the third quarter, the APU reaches seven points ahead. Feeling: Udine thinks he is stronger and is waiting for the right moment to close the game. Wait for you, however, 10 ‘from the end, the score is 42-38 for the boys from Boniciolli. Yet the plan works: three-four defenses, Cappelletti and Pellegrino making the big voice, the traditional triple leg splitter of the “cobra” You swear by the 49-40 and when the Boniciolli area also gives the opponents a headache in the game is defeated and the Apu is rampant.
His game wasn’t great, but there is a semifinal to play against the ambitious Treviglio who would like to raise his level in the league. A nice test. To play from start to finish by not opening and stopping the engine waiting for the right draw. Coach Boniciolli’s cameo after the traditional compliments to the opponents and the coach: “Important defense that will be felt in the long run”.
APU OLD WILD WEST UDINE – TRAMEC CENTO 62 – 49
(7-9, 22-23, 42-38)
OLD WILD WEST UDINE Cappelletti 10, Walters 6, Pieri, Antonutti 5, Esposito, Giuri 18, Nobile, Lautier-Ogunleye 11, Pellegrino 10, Italiano 2, Ebeling. Coach Boniciolli.
TRAMEC CENTO Zilli 6, Gasparin 7, James 12, Moreno, Barnes 12, Berti 2, Dellosto, Tomassini 3, Ranuzzi 7. Not entered: Guastamacchia. Coach Mecacci.
Referees Gagno and Perocco from Treviso, Spessot from Gorizia.
Note Old Wild West: 17/30 two-point shooting, 7/27 three and 7/10 free. One hundred: 14/31 to the two-point shot, 6/22 from three and 3/4 to free. No one came out for 5 fouls.