Quimsa beat San Lorenzo and got into the final of the Basketball Champions League. Those from Santiago del Estero will face Flamengo at the Antel Arena next Friday.
For the third game of the semifinal series, Quimsa and San Lorenzo faced each other. Before the stoppage due to the pandemic, both teams had won their match as a visitor. The winner would face Flamengo, who had left the Instituto de Córdoba on the way. Those led by Sebastián González took the field with Nicolás Copello, Trevor Gaskins, Mauro Cosolito, Fabián Ramírez Barrios and the North American Diamon Simpson. For their part, those led by Silvio Santander began with José Vildoza, Jonathan Maldonado, Máximo Fjellerup, Luis Montero and the American Jeff Adrien.
The match played at the Sanitary Works Stadium had a fairly balanced start, in which the cast that served as the local loaded the painting with Diamon Simpson, while the visiting team had an inspired Máximo Fjellerup. Little by little, Boedo’s men were improving in defense, while on the other side they found the scoring of José Vildoza, which gave them the possibility of opening the first advantage of the match. With a good contribution from the substitute bench of Agustín Cáffaro, which added to what Fjellerup and Vildoza continued to do, the cyclone continued to increase the difference in the score. The santiagueños were left without a goal, becoming overly dependent on what Fabián Ramírez Barrios could generate.
At the beginning of the complement, those of Buenos Aires were in front in the electronic by 12 units (48-36). In the first bars of the third quarter, an extremely open procedure could be observed, where the defenses were conspicuous by their absence. The azulgrana had Vildoza and Fjellerup as main offensive exponents, while those of Santiago del Estero hurt with the distance shots of the Panamanian Trevor Gaskins. At the start of the last quarter, those led by Sebastián González made a reaction, which put the game red hot. With two consecutive pumps by Ramírez Barrios, the tenant had a three-point income (85-82) with a little more than two minutes to play. A pair of free rounds by Robinson with seven seconds to go could leave Quimsa in the final. In North America he put one of two and in the reload, a run by Montero sent the game to overtime.
In extra time, the Santiago team was clearly superior, with an excellent work from Trevor Gaskins and Franco Baralle, who put in a lapidary 19-6 partial, which ended the aspirations of San Lorenzo. Finally, Quimsa was left with the victory by 110-97 and in that way he got into the final of the Basketball Champions League Americas. The winner was the great performance of Fabián Ramírez Barrios, who scored 22 points and grabbed 4 rebounds, well accompanied by Franco Baralle with 22 points (5/8 triples). On the loser’s side, José Vildoza contributed 22 points and 6 assists.
The Santiago del Estero team will face Flamengo in the final of the competition. It will take place next Friday at the Antel Arena in the city of Montevideo.
Foto: Basketball Champions League Americas.
