Overcome Juvi Cremona with a great defense. Today (duo at 5.15 pm) there is the obstacle Faenza
PAVIA
Elachem Vigevano overtakes Juvi Cremona in the quarter-finals of the Super Cup and today at 5.15 pm faces Faenza in the semifinal in Lignano Sabbiadoro.
Coach Paolo Piazza’s team suffers only in the first quarter, then raises a defensive wall against which Cremonese hopes to overcome the round crash. To get an idea, just think that in the first period Elachem suffers 21 points, which is the sum of the points suffered in the next two quarters. In the last period, Piazza goes in control and in the final with the result in hand he even lines up all the young people on the bench to preserve the most experienced in view of today’s game, where even the fatigue of the second consecutive match will be felt. The first quarter with Cremona is the hardest fought, because the former Pavia Nasello and Gobbato launch the sprint to the Cremonese, even if Gatti and Giorgi warm up their hand, they send Vigevano ahead (17 – 11, 6 ‘). The winger Gobbato, however, reaches 10 points in the first ten minutes and when Bona also follows him, Juvi closes ahead with a partial 0 – 10 (17 – 21, 10 ‘). The inertia of the second quarter is still in the hands of the Cremonese players, Vacchelli replies to Peroni, then it is Nasello’s turn (4/4 up to that moment), but it is a flash in the pan, because Juvi goes out against the wall that coach Piazza raised in defense. A three-point action by Mercante marks the overtaking (28 – 27, 14 ‘). Cremona for five long minutes fails to do anything good on the defensive pressure of Elachem, who in the meantime stretches in attack with an excellent Gatti, to whom a precise Rossi from the line gives a hand, reaching the maximum advantage of the first half in the last minute ( 36 – 27, 19 ‘). Only a prayer of the young Milovanovij of three allows his companions to go to the long rest with a minimum hope, which however turns out to be in vain in the third period, the decisive one. Fumagalli and Bona try to get under (38 – 34, 22 ‘). Vigevano, however, regroups immediately, raises the wall in defense and a wild Giorgi (double double for him at the end, 14 points and 11 rebounds) with the usual Gatti and the contribution of his teammates put an end to the match (54 – 38, 27 ‘). Elachem immediately stretches in the last quarter, even reaching + 19 (64 – 45, 35 ‘). In the final minutes, space for young people. Coach Paolo Piazza in the end underlines how the defense was decisive, while in attack he worked well, as also the figures confirm, given that Vigevano shot with 44.6%, while Cremona was unable to go beyond 29%. –
MAURIZIO SCORBATI