The women’s Casademont Zaragoza faces this afternoon (19.00/Teledeporte) the penultimate effort of the year. The Aragonese team, ranked third in the Endesa Women’s League with nine wins and four losses, will play against Movistar Estudiantes in the last home game of the year. The Madrid team, ninth with six wins and seven losses, lands in the capital with the aim of speeding up its options to enter the next edition of the Copa de la Reina, which will be held precisely in the Príncipe Felipe pavilion from March 30 to April 2, 2023.
The cup appointment is one of the great attractions of the meeting. Not only because of the qualifying situation of Estudiantes, which has the same numbers as Bembibre, which is eighth. Also because Casademont Zaragoza is about to ensure its participation in the tournament as the top seed. Their great threat is Barça CBS, the last rival that gave in last week to the extraordinary competitive gene that Carlos Cantero’s team possesses, which is fifth with only one less win (8) than the Aragonese (9).
If the team from Zaragoza beat Estudiantes this afternoon, they could certify their classification among the four best squads in Spanish women’s basketball before concluding the first round. Because today is not the last stop on the route of the women’s Casademont Zaragoza. Carlos Cantero’s players still have one last commitment next Friday, the penultimate day of the year, before closing 2022. Starting at 7:00 p.m. they will visit the court of Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre de León.
again with low
As is customary this season for the women’s Casademont, their coach, Carlos Cantero, will not be able to have the entire squad for the clash against Madrid. Aishah Sutherland will not be there, who no longer appeared in Barcelona and continues to be injured. Yes, they are expected to play, even if between cotton, Mariona Ortiz and Leonie Fiebich. The Spaniard was injured last Thursday against Barça after suffering an ugly sprained ankle. For her part, the German reappeared before the Catalans after several weeks away from the group, but her feelings were not the best.
Faced with this situation, the union of the collective, the group strength of a squad already accustomed to setbacks, seems essential to carry out the game. It will be (again) time for names like Helena Oma (18 points and a PIR of 19 in the last match) to step forward. or Markeisha Gatling, who has performed at a very high level since she returned to Zaragoza almost a month ago.
A favorable precedent
Casademont Zaragoza and Estudiantes already met before the start of this season. It was at the end of September, when the Madrileñas visited Príncipe Felipe to compete in the Ibercaja Ciudad de Zaragoza Trophy. Then, Carlos Cantero’s men added the first victory of the preseason after clearly winning (63-40) over their rival.
That was the letter of introduction of a squad that, only three months later, is signing a brilliant season, practically faultless. Not only because of its high level in the domestic competition, where it has prevailed against rivals of the stature of Girona, but also because of its extraordinary performance in its first participation in the Eurocup Women, in which it has obtained the pass to the qualifiers as first and undefeated of his group.
