Despite the high complexity of winning this Wednesday on the Valencia Basket court, the women’s Casademont Zaragoza had a chance of making it to the end. The Aragonese team, which was unable to surprise a rival with higher quality in its squad, wasted pride, character and capacity for sacrifice, but could not avoid the expected final defeat (63-58), the first of this season. Carlos Cantero’s players knew how to suffer in several phases of the match, especially at the beginning of the second act, and opted for victory until the last minutes.
Casademont Zaragoza entered the game very well. The Aragonese team did not cringe and accepted the exchange of blows proposed by Valencia Basket in the first minutes. Supported by a sensational work in defense, Zaragoza took the lead on the scoreboard thanks to a choral basketball where all the players contributed a very high level.
In the second act, Valencia Basket showed off its superiority and dynamited the game thanks to a 12-0 run. Casademont Zaragoza took more than three and a half minutes to score, which caused the locals to distance themselves on the scoreboard (28-13). This advantage reinforced the confidence in their game of a team full of quality, with an enviable breadth of resources, which this year aspires to play for the first places in the classification. The meeting reached the rest time with the momentary triumph of the oranges (40-25).
From there, Valencia, who still did not know the victory in the Endesa Women’s League since she fell on the first day, she dominated a match in which Carlos Cantero’s players stood up until the end.
In the third quarter, Casademont Zaragoza tried to close the gap and reduce the deficit below double digits. In fact, the visitors prevailed in this part, but until now they it had been impossible to reduce the Valencian income, which fluctuated practically the entire match between 10 and 15 points. He got it with just over five minutes to go, thanks to a sensational basket to the hoop by Vega Gimeno that put Casademont to eight. Valencia Basket, however, imposed its greatest capacity and did not allow itself to be surprised until closing the final victory (63-58).
