RIVAROLO Canavese
Usac lost 58-71 at home against group leaders, Bea Chieri.
The meeting saw the visiting team – coached by former rivarolese coach Carlo Vassalli – superior to Usac, decimated by absences and by some cases of positivity at Covid. The first two quarters were literally dominated by the host team who managed to take a good margin, reaching over twenty points of advantage.
But in the second part of the match, Titto Porcelli’s team did not give up and managed to fight their opponents point by point. And it was not a trivial matter as the top of the class have always maintained a very high intensity of play. In the last quarter then the rivarolesi have appeared the masters of the field up to climb to only ten lengths of disadvantage.
Rewinding the movie of the match we saw the first few minutes with the rivarolesi on the shields going up to 6-2 in their favor.
Then the guests got into the fourth by expressing a higher level team game reaching double figures, plus eleven in the first set (11-22). The progress of the challenge did not change in the second ten minutes with the leaders who stretched even more by fielding not only technique but also their physicality under the scoreboards both in the defensive and offensive phases.
Long-range shots almost always hit the mark. At the long interval the score was set at 22-43. In the second part of the game, things changed slightly and the match became balanced. Because it was Usac who changed the register. Definitely more attentive in defense and pungent in attack.
Three minutes from the siren of the last interval along the guest bench he had to call the time-out to slow down the good Rivarolese moment: Usac had gone to minus sixteen (36-52); but the penultimate quarter ended on a score of 41-55. At the beginning of the last ten minutes of the game, Usac did not give up and with a partial of 6-2 they returned to minus ten (47-57).
But the margin remained unchanged with the rivarolesi with good continuity but the guests who drove them back with their snipers, almost infallible with three-point shots.
There will be thirteen points of difference between the two quintets 58-71. The best scorer of the match was the visiting center Rame who, in addition to scoring 22 points, dominated under the scoreboards; three Usac players finished in double figures: with fifteen points were Vittorio Ferraresi and Giacomo Sartore, instead eleven for Giacomo Zuliani. –