At the end of a meeting that was not technically beautiful, but intense and fought up to 40 ‘, Pallacanestro Crema snatches the two points from Virtus Ragusa and gets the second away win of the season. The Cremasco staff returns from Sicily with an important victory and a few more gray hairs, after a last quarter in which Torrenova’s ghosts have forcefully appeared.
Sicilians ahead in the first quarter, when on 16 to 5 they reach the only double-digit advantage. As usual Arrigoni, author of 24 points, are added 5 consecutive points by Bianchi to end the fraction at 20 to 15. Mastroianni and Ianelli keep Ragusa ahead, but in the second part of the fourth Crema takes the lead closing the interval at 35 to 32 , despite several mistakes to the free.
Eliantonio’s troop increases the advantage at the resumption of the game, starting the last fraction at 48 to 40. Inexplicably, as happened in Torrenova, the Cremasco attack gets stuck for many, too many minutes. Ragusa does not do much, but reaches the rosanero on 48 all, before Arrigoni sets the first two Cremaschi points after 6’47 ”. The teams appear tired, but Crema has more reactivity and puts it to good use. After a triple from Bianchi Arrigoni challenges a ball that Montanari collects, bringing Crema to 5 points. Del Sorbo could reply, but after the steal he does not capitalize on the counterattack.
In the middle, some important rebounds by Trentin who with a few seconds from the end goes to the line on +3. The hand does not tremble and fixes the final result at 59 to 54.
The Cremasco playmaker Luca Montanari at the end of the match: “We came from a very bad trip to Bologna, where we found ourselves totally disoriented, but today in Ragusa we proved to be a compact team also because we had been coming for a week in which injuries and flu didn’t have us allowed to train at best. It was a very important victory, it gives us a clear identity away from home. Despite having low percentages in attack, we managed the game well and recovered in defense. We threw ourselves on all the loose balls, we sacrificed ourselves, it was a match won in defense, conquered and deserved. “
Sunday big match against the leaders Agrigento.
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