Despite being diminished and seeing its rotation affected by the departure of Guille Mulero and the injury of Omar Lo, Clínica Ponferrada was able to solve a match against La Antigua CB Tormes that never gave up. Those from the capital of Berciana ended up winning 86-83, who have six wins and are in contention for second place in the West Group of LEB Plata after a game that they were able to break from the first quarter.
The game was very comfortable, in fact, in the early stages for the blue and whites, since the starting partial, with Hierrezuelo in the starring role, was 13-2. Little by little it grew until the advantage of Berciana was closer to twenty with the alliance that formed the former player from Valencia together with Wilson to shoot the difference that broke that new psychological barrier after a basket from Martínez that made it 32-11 with which the first act ended.
Although it did not put the local income in trouble, it did improve the staging of the people from Salamanca in the sequel. Led by Mensah, they tried to tighten the score and they did it with three pointers. In fact, one from García Calvo lowered the difference of +10 that the light would reflect at halftime (48-38). Martínez and Wilson were in charge of preventing Óscar Núñez’s men from tightening the result.
Wilson extended his state of grace by opening the third quarter with a hit from the perimeter, but the Salamanca team replied through Mensah and Yengue to lower the difference of ten. Martínez took command of the operations in Ponferradina to prevent the good minutes of the visiting Navarro from paying off after getting 63-56. In fact, David Barrio’s men managed to maintain the advantage (66-56) before the fourth period.
The final assault began with a three-pointer from Navarro, who hit it again midway through the fourth to threaten the local advantage. Martínez responded to keep David Barrio’s men up, who began to fear for the victory after another success from 6.75, in this case by a Mensah who would put the final 86-83 after Hierrezuelo had sentenced from the line of 4.60 in the last seconds.
The match sheet:
Clinica Ponferrada SDP, 86 (32+16+18+20): Wilson (16), Hierrezuelo (9), Jordá (14), Martínez (15), Quite (12) –initial five-; Godspower (3), Fernandez (13), Flames (-) and Kanyinda (4). –Coach: David Barrio.
La Antigua CB Tormes, 83 (11+27+18+27): Yengue (3), Navarro (19), Mensah (15), Orizu (6), McCarthy (-) –starting five-; García Calvo (10), Morales (4), Yáñez (-), Sánchez (-), Bertain (4) y Tavitain (2). –Coach: Óscar Núñez.
Referees: Rodriguez Francisco and Aguilera Mellado.
Incidences: Match corresponding to the 9th day of the West Group of the LEB Plata played in the Lydia Valentín de Ponferrada pavilion.
