LIBERTAS BOLOGNA CHILLI – LA MOLISANA MAGNOLIA CAMPOBASSO 63-63 (12-16, 31-30; 49-45)
BOLOGNA: Giuliani 15, Zambonelli 2, Cerè 24, Springer 4, Corradini 4; Trocchi, Manganelli 5, Cockram 9, Baroncini, Calzolari, Capuzzinati. Ne: Montalbani. All.: Gatti.
CAMPOBASSO: Oliva, Sammartino 10, Del Colle, Baldassarre 26, Pirillo 23; Oddis 2, Di Quinzio 2, Santillo, Splendido, Fatigue. Ne: Brunetti and Terrigno. All.: Ghilardi.
REFEREES: Guizzardi and Fiocca (Bologna).
NOTE: out for five fouls Corradini and Trocchi (Bologna); Sammartino and Oliva (Campobasso). Score progression: 7-11 (5 ‘), 27-22 (15’), 41-42 (25 ‘), 58-53 (35’).
Another historic result for Molise basketball (but not only for women) is the chance to earn the national audience on Sunday. Molisana Magnolia Campobasso writes another memorable page in its very young history, starting its experience in the best possible way in the interregional stages of the women’s under championships.
ONE THOUSAND EMOTIONS In Bologna, the #fiorellinid Acciaio closed the match with Peperoncino in perfect equality (formation resulting from the selection of four clubs, ed.) Now having forty minutes to try to get the ticket to the national finals scheduled from 29 May to 4 June in the four capitals of Friuli Venezia Giulia: Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste, the city of the captain of the A1 team Stefania Trimboli, and Udine.
The #fiorellinid acciaio entrusted to the technical care of coach Franco Ghilardi immediately start strong and take the edge in the first period, taking even six lengths of advantage and reaching their opponents at 7-14, not breaking up in the face of the attempt to return the felsinee with four margin points to be managed at 10 ‘(12-16) with Sammartino’s buzzer-beater (in double figures at the end with ten points to his credit).
In the second period Campobasso tries to keep his inertia (14-18), but Bologna overtakes and takes possession of the margin, also putting the triple of +5 on 27-22. Here, however, Baldassarre first (she will be the top scorer of the match at an altitude of 26) and then Pirillo (also author of a fan) manage to make the rossoblùs impact, able to overtake in two circumstances (27-28 before and 29-30 then), but to find themselves down by one (31-30) at the long interval.
In the third quarter, Bologna tries the ‘tear’ in more than one circumstance, but the #fiorellinid Acciaio demonstrate a unique resilience and indeed manage to carry on (38-40) and command the operations at the halfway point (41-42). The Bolognese manage to overturn the inertia, however, and have four lengths to manage at 30 ‘.
In the last period, Bologna also tried the card of the area, fleeing up to +7 (52-45) and coming to take three possessions of margin on 58-49. Here, however, the Campobassane score a partial 8-0 that disorientates the Emilians, however able to find themselves on +5 of 63-58 with just over two minutes to play. The rest is a masterpiece of the Molise women who impact at 63 also having the ball of success and scoring a historic result for the territorial clubs, usually unsuccessful, especially in external, in the interregional stages of the youth championships.
A CLOSED REPORT For the trainer of the young magnolias Franco Ghilardi the synthesis, at the end, is that of particularly happy sensations.
“It’s difficult – explains – give a weighted value to this result. With certainty, in consideration of our relative experience and their qualities, undoubtedly on the eve of those who could have been the pluses and minuses of this match appeared to be oriented on only one front ».
«This team must be given credit for having played with great determination and not having broken even when they went on +9. We also had the ball to go on, but beyond all this it is only the first half of an 80-minute match. Now the return confrontation on our field awaits us. They will certainly take countermeasures, as we will do. However, we added a further piece of experience and, in a full facility and with a lot of heat, we were able to show steadfastness by compacting ourselves around what were our two offensive leaders ».
SUNDAY AT THE ARENA The inertia of the number one play-off with the qualification for Friuli will now be decided on Sunday 15 May in the arena with a duo ball at 3 pm. A1. The target? Write another memorable page in the young history of Magnolia.
CAPITOLINE EXPERIENCE The confrontation in Bologna for one of the rossoblù elements (Francesca Baldassarre from Brindisi) followed the experience of the Nba Junior Camp in Rome: a four-day event with excellent results for the outside of the #fiorellinid Acciaio, observed by the star scouts and strips that will have to decide whether to include it among the ten of the Europe and Middle East selection for the August finals in Orlando in the United States.
MANAGEMENT AWARDS In a simply unique period for the club, among other things, the general manager of the Campobassan club Rossella Ferro received the bronze star of sporting merit on Friday, before the federal council of the Fip in which he is the referent of the national basketball movement. conferred by Coni and received directly from the hands of the number one of the Olympic movement Giovanni Malagò with the diploma delivered by the general secretary Carlo Mornati in the presence of Gianni Petrucci, top of Federbasket.
«An acknowledgment – he has declared – which rewards the whole club, from the management to the staff passing through the athletes and supporters of a challenging sport project at the highest levels in Southern Italy ».
