Viola Reggio Calabria – Tecnoswitch Ruvo © Talos Basket Ruvo
On the nineteenth day of the Serie B basketball championship, yesterday at the PalaCalafiore in Reggio Calabria, the challenge between the Viola basketball Reggio Calabria and the Tecnoswitch Ruvo.
In the first quarter the home team of coaches started very well Domenico Bolignano, also taking advantage of the slow start of the white-blue: in fact, there are immediately two turnovers for Tecnoswitch Ruvo. The first basket of the evening is made by the center Yande Fall which will also be followed by the creation of Amar Balic; in the ruvese house he thinks about it Mattia Mastroianni to unlock his. As the minutes go by, the Calabrian team continues to manage the minimum accumulated advantage, until it reaches +7 (15-8). Coach Ponticiello immediately calls the time-out to rearrange his ideas. From the minute of suspension, Tecnoswitch Ruvo returns to the field with another attitude: thanks to an excellent percentage from the 6.75 m throw, there are two consecutive triple Kurt Cassar that of Mastroianni; to follow those of the captain Leonardo Ciribeni and of Daniele Merletto, which are worth +8, thus ending the first period with Reggio Calabria 18 – Ruvo 26. In the second quarter, Tecnoswitch Ruvo continues in full control of the match, despite the changes; on the other hand, Viola Reggio Calabria seems to suffer from the speed of the ruvesi. With the passing of the minutes, the whites and blues accumulated an advantage, dragged by the duo Mastroianni-Ciribeni, thus reaching the long interval on the maximum advantage of the evening: Reggio Calabria 28 – Ruvo 47.
After the break, something seems to change compared to the first two quarters, if you consider that the partial of the third quarter is 15-8, demonstrating that the hosts, despite the big gap, returned to the field with a different attitude. trying to close the gap in the score. Despite a third quarter not played well by coach Ponticiello’s men, Tecnoswitch manages to keep the Reggio team under twelve points: Reggio Calabria 43 – Ruvo 55. Thus begin the last ten minutes of the game: Tecnoswitch, despite the inertia of the race on their side, seems to want not to close it definitively thanks to the Reggio team who believe in it until the last moment. Another merit of the men of coach Bolignano is to have improved the shooting percentages, especially from 6.75 m. On the shields of the black-orange team we find Balic, Giuseppe Bruno Duranti, Franco Gaetano and the ex on duty Lazar Kekovic. Despite this, in the end Tecnoswitch Ruvo is good at not breaking down, thus managing to obtain an important success, conquering the PalaCalafiore. Thus ends the race on the following score: Reggio Calabria 64 – Ruvo 70. With this victory, Tecnoswitch Ruvo climbs in the standings to 26 points, reaching -2 from second place where the Lions Basket Bisceglie were defeated at home by Cassino.
Scoreboard
Viola basketball Reggio Calabria – Tecnoswitch Ruvo 64-70
(18-26,28-47,43-55,64-70)
Viola basketball Reggio Calabria: Amar Balic 16 (2 / 7,4 / 8); Bruno Giuseppe Duranti 12 (2 / 2.2 / 7); Franco Gaetano 12 (5 / 9.0 / 1); Lazar Kekovic 10 (2 / 2.2 / 6); Yande Fall 8 (2 / 6.0 / 0); Federico Ingrosso 6 (0 / 2.2 / 8); Alberto Besozzi 0 (0 / 0.0 / 1); Fortunato Barrile 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0); Fabio Lorenzo Freno 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0); Vittorio Lazzari 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0); Samuele Andrea Valente 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0)
Free throws: 8/15 – Rebounds: 35 10 + 25 (Franco Gaetano 12) – Assist: 9 (Lazar Kekovic 3)
Tecnoswitch Ruvo: Leonardo Ciribeni 19 (4 / 6,3 / 5); Mattia Mastroianni 16 (2 / 6.4 / 8); Kurt Cassar 9 (1 / 5.2 / 4); Daniele Merletto 8 (2 / 3,1 / 4); Nikola Markovic 6 (3 / 6,0 / 5); Thomas Monina 6 (3 / 4.0 / 0); Shaquille Hidalgo 5 (1 / 2.0 / 0); Gianni Cantagalli 1 (0 / 0.0 / 1); Riccardo Bartolozzi 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0); Gian marco Sbaragli 0 (0 / 0.0 / 0)
Free throws: 8/11 – Rebounds: 36 3 + 33 (Nikola Markovic 8) – Assist: 10 (Daniele Merletto 4)
