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Basquet Girona has added another victory to the LEB Or, the seventeenth, this time against a direct rival like Palencia. Girona are on track for the play-offs and are just one win away from the quarter, precisely Palencia. Marc Gasol and Josep Franch have been the highlights of Bàsquet Girona, which has been ruled out of Fjellerup due to an illness.
A triple from the base 6 minutes from the end (76-64) was decisive to slow down the visitors, who with a very inspired Speight had never let the locals break the game. Girona had come to dominate from 10 in the first quarter (23-13) but Palencia came back with a 0-13 (23-26) and the game was tied again to reach the break with three points margin for gironins (46-43). In the third quarter Gasol (19 points 12 rebounds) imposed his game and Franch (21 points) also put the rest. Girona came to dominate from 18 (86-68) 3 minutes from the end. The party was doomed.
