Balsamic victory of Spar Girona in Fontajau. Bernat Canut’s team won at Perfumerías Avenida in a match full of emotion. The Catalans, who started winning, but lost their forward in the second quarter, they turned the game around in the final stretch with a last quarter (21-9). María Araújo was the top scorer with 23 points and 9 rebounds.
Laura Cornelius opened the scoring as soon as the game started. The derby is much more than any other league duel and this was indicated by the daring from the perimeter of the premises, which after a couple of disastrous performances from the triple today, has finally found effectiveness. Bernat Canut’s have come out to bite and, against all odds, have managed a maximum difference of 17 points with a very high percentage of effectiveness. The Castilians reacted with the help of the duo formed by Maite Cazorla and Silvia Domínguez to close the first quarter with less than ten points (28-21).
Maite Cazorla has found a corridor to score and stage the first step of the comeback. The visitors have turned the score around after a partial 0-9 (28-30) and they have knocked out the Spar. The locals, with a stellar María Araújo (23 points), stopped the bleeding, but wasted the initial advantage. Mariana Tolo and Mariela Fasoula moved brilliantly at their respective low posts and a brilliant penetration from Maite Cazorla allowed those of Roberto Íñiguez leave at the break ahead on the scoreboard (45-46).
Sílvia Domínguez has captained a comeback of the Castilian team, which with a partial score of 2-8 staged the maximum difference in favor of the visitors (47-54). Binta Drammeh heated up the game with a three-pointer that served to wake up his team. The rate of scoring has dropped and Avenida has taken advantage of this to prevail little by little until achieving a difference of seven points (55-63).
A 4-0 partial run by Spar Girona allowed the home team to close the gap and Roberto Íñiguez did not wait to slow down the game. The visitors slept through the game, extending possessions to the maximum, but Girona survived and woke up from their lethargy to go two up thanks a triple on the edge d’Irati Etxarri (66-68). Tolo tied the game with a shot in suspension and then, Gardner and Tolo have turned the score around (72-68) with barely a minute left in the game. Fasoula cut distances from the free kick, leading to a tachycardic finish with the home team winning by three with 19 seconds left. Mariana Tolo made it 74-69 on the scoreboard and an imperial Silvia Domínguez put the excitement to the surface with a triple that adjusted the scores, but it was too late. Gardner scored from the free throw (76-72).
