The calendar of the new Interregional Serie B basketball championship has been released by the Competition Office of the Regional Committee of Sicily. As known, there will be twelve clubs taking part in the tournament: nine from Sicily, two from Calabria and one from Campania. Pending the officialization by the Municipality of Messina, the Basket School Messina, since the PalaMili is not in accordance with the new organizational provisions, should play its home matches at the PalaTracuzzi in Via Rocca Guelfonia.
The 2023/24 Interregional Serie B will kick off on 30 September with the anticipation that it will be played at the PalaCus in Catania between CUS and Viola Reggio Calabria. For the Basket School Messina, an immediately demanding start, the pupils will in fact host Virtus Kleb Ragusa on Sunday 1 October, one of the formations from the B championship. The second day coincides with the first away match of the season for the Giallorossi who will cross the Strait to face the Bim Bum Basket makes it multifunctional. The first city derby of the tournament will take place on 15 October against Fortitudo Messina at 18:00. Another match between friendly walls for Pippo Sidoti’s boys is scheduled for the fourth day, when they will host Siaz Piazza Armerina. On Saturday 28 October, Di Dio and his companions will be guests of CUS Catania, at 7 pm at the PalaCUS, while on 1 November they will receive the Orlandina, in the midweek shift, at 20:30. The seventh of the championship is played on 5 November and the longest away match of the season arrives, with the Giallorossi engaged at 18:00 on the parquet floor of the Pallacanestro Sala Consilina. Sunday, November 12, the Peloritans return to their friendly walls to host Barcelona Basket 4.0. On the ninth matchday, another derby for the boys of president Zanghì, guests of the Unleashed Milazzo at the Palaverde at 18:00. On November 26, the derby of the Strait with Viola Reggio Calabria is scheduled for the penultimate day. The first round of the Basket School ends with the second city derby of the season, scheduled at the PalaRitiro at 19:00 on Saturday 2 December, with Castanea Basket 2010.
On December 10th we travel to Ragusa, to the PalaPadua at 18:00 for the first day of the second leg. On 17 December the Giallorossi host Rende, while on 20 they will play the last match of 2023 on the parquet floor of the Cittadella Universitaria, guests of Fortitudo. After the Christmas holidays, the Basket School will return to the field on January 7 at the PalaFerraro in Piazza Armerina, seven days later it will host Cus Catania. Midweek shift also for the sixth day of return, with the Scolari guests of the Orlandina on Wednesday 17 January at 20:45. On Sunday 21 January, Pallacanestro Sala Consilina will challenge the Basket School, which seven days later will be involved in the PalAlberti derby in Barcelona. In the ninth second leg, the home derby will be played against Svincati Milazzo, while the home match against Viola Reggio Calabria will take place on Sunday 11 February. The return round ends on 18 February with the city derby against Castanea 2010.
Commenting on the calendar for the next championship is GM Bruno Donia: “It will be a very strong start for our boys, because they will face a top tier opponent like Ragusa and it will already be a baptism of fire with the championship. We will meet a historical opponent at the beginning and it will do us good to understand what the level of the championship will be at its highest level with the protagonist teams. Then we suffered two challenges with teams from our league segment, obviously highlighting the derby on the third day with Fortitudo. Finally, the other particular element is the other derby with Castanea which will be played on the last day. She too will probably be a team in our segment and therefore it will be a challenge, especially with a view to the second round, significant for any positions in the standings to which the two teams can aspire”. But the point we need to focus on today is that of the sports facility. “The Municipality – continues Donia – told us that the reference sports facility for the Interregional B championship would be the PalaTracuzzi, because the improvements to be made in order to make it accessible and therefore usable for the purposes of our championship of competence, they were easier to make. Since that date, that is, since we were promoted in May, there have been only verbal reassurances, but we still don’t have certain information on the work carried out, on the visit by the Supervisory Commission to ascertain its usability. By September 10th, our club must produce the documentation certifying the presence of a viable field for the Interregional Serie B to the Federation. Just over a month to go, it’s no longer time to have simple verbal reassurances, it’s time to have certainties. It’s time to have certain dates and precise commitments, so that we can enter the PalaTracuzzi regularly. We have also been told that it will be the field where we will only be able to play home games, but the team will certainly need to train on that field, because it is not possible that the boys do not train on the parquet where they will face their opponents. We can divide the workouts into other facilities, but we also have to train at the PalaTracuzzi. On this we ask for a clear, decisive and quick position on the part of the Councilor for Sport”
2023-08-06 21:27:12
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