Cuorgnè’s players in the home of the second in the standings, who prevailed in the first leg Three pawns are missing but coach Matteotti does not give up and asks for concentration
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Maintaining the top in their respective mini groups is the goal at Alto Canavese in the men’s B series and Volpianese in the B2 women’s series.
The game on the most difficult card of the third day of return is certainly up to theAlto Canavese in the mini group B1, given that the Cuorgnatese team will go tomorrow, Saturday 13 March at 20.45, to visit Ciriè second in the standings without three important pawns: the central Spinello (in his place Luca Marchese should still play in his place), and the Bolla and Grosjacques bands, all injured, as coach Matteotti says: «On Saturday we will have three very important absences and we will not be able to be as competitive as in the first leg, which ended 3-2 for our opponents – comments Matteotti -. We know the importance of the match, we face a very strong opponent, as we have already seen in the first leg in our home at PalaCuorgnè. We want to try to redeem the knockout gained on Saturday 30 January and to do so we will need to be very focused and determined in every phase of the game. It will be a battle and we will be ready – says Matteotti – until a few days ago there were three games in one week, because we would have had to recover the match against Acqui Terme in Alessandria on Wednesday 17, before the match on Saturday 20 again against the thermal baths, but in our house. Instead the Federation has postponed the recovery to April and so we can better dose the energies. With Acqui we will play first the return leg and then the first leg ». Acqui Terme-Pavic Romagnano Sesia at 6.30 pm and Sant’Anna San Mauro Torinese-Savigliano complete the shift, again tomorrow, Saturday 13th. Ranking: Alto Canavese 15 points; Cirie 12; Savigliano 11, Acqui Terme 7, Pavic 5; St. Anne 1.
Moving to the women’s A2 mini group, the Volpianese always tomorrow, within the friendly walls of the Pala Unita d’Italia in Volpiano at 18.30 hosts the Labormet Torino and coach Stefano Andreotti who wants to keep his concentration high: “A complicated game awaits us, because Labormet Torino will want to try to trip the leaders, our goal is to do everything to get the three points and thus continue to have fun staying at the top of the standings. In the first leg we lost at the tie break and we also want to redeem that knockout – says Andreotti – and thus continue our streak of consecutive useful results, made up of three important successes obtained respectively with Caselle, 3-2, Pinerolo 3-1 and Chieri 3-0 “. The round begins at 17.30 with the challenge that Caselle-Chieri and continues with Piossasco-Pinerolo, on the field at 18. Ranking: Volpianese points 15; Boxes 13; Pinerolo 12; Labormet Turin 11; Chieri 9, Piossasco 0. –
Loris Ponsetto