The 27 points advantage from the first leg of the semi-final had left Valencia BC with almost two feet in the final, but far from settling for the comfortable advantage, the taronjas went out from the start to win the game to end up qualifying for the final through the big door, winning again before their fans by 80-60 to meet in the final with Salamanca, who came back against Girona to secure the taronja ticket for the Euroleague by already having their rival as champion in their pocket of the Regular League.
Without the presence of an Awa Fam that had just played the final of the Spanish Junior Championship and the Final Four with La Cordà Paterna and with Elena Buenavida who also arrived from Estepona (Málaga), the only loss from the first team due to injury was that of Raquel Carrera.
Rubén Burgos started with Leti Romero, Queralt Casas, Alina Iagupova, Nadia Fingall and Merritt Hempe and although it was the national MVP of the League, Mariona Ortiz, who opened the scoring, it didn’t take long for Valencia Basket to take control of the game with a first triple from Iagupova and two more from Queralt and Leti Romero that made the score 17-8 and forced the whistled Carlos Cantero to stop the game.
Hempe and Ginzo had also done damage in the zone and although Diallo also found his options under the basket, Eraunzetamurgil and Queralt closed the first quarter 21-12. Only Mariona, Diallo and Fiebich had scored for the visitors against a Valencia Basket in which the points were already distributed to six players, with the captain as the top scorer with seven points.
Triples Festival
Paula Ginzo poked at Casademont’s wound on the return to the court with four consecutive points under the rim and although Nerea Hermosa and Holesinska with a triple responded to reduce the gap to 25-19, Valencia Basket once again found its strength in the triples. best weapon to open the gap again, with Iagupova, Leti Romero and Queralt scoring again and again from 6.75, to close the first half 47-32, with a 52% success rate from the three-point line.
Without giving any room for reaction, Ouviña opened the second half with a new triple that made it 50-32 and froze any visitor’s hope of achieving a miracle. The Valencian Vega Gimeno, in her last game at LF Endesa after the announcement of her retirement, scored her first points from the free throw.
The game was thicker and the points for both sides came from free throws, until an 8-2 run with Ouviña, Queralt, Fingall and Hempe made it 60-40 for La Fonteta.
Cantero called a timeout with 4:17 left in the third period and upon returning to the court, the tension returned to the court after an action by Diallo on Eraunzetamurgil that ended with the taronja going to the locker room in tears while the fans whistled. to the Casademont center, who was still protesting alongside Mariona.
Fiebich, with a triple and Gulbe made the visitors react timidly, but another 5-0 run with a triple by Iagupova and a basket by Ginzo under the rim, closed the third quarter 67-45.
With the tie already decided, Gülich, Leti Romero and Ouviña responded to each score from the visitors and Rubén Buros took the opportunity to test, playing a few minutes with Ouviña, Romero and Buenavida together. The Canarian, as a reward for her efforts after playing the day before in Estepona (Málaga), also added her first points.
Tribute to Vega Gimeno
Moments later, the most emotional moment of the afternoon arrived, when Vega Gimeno went to the bench after just over two minutes to the applause of a Fonteta who, standing up, recognized his great sporting career despite never having played for taronja While they were chanting his name, the game resumed, with an inconsequential exchange of baskets until reaching the final 80-60 before the grand final that starts on Thursday in Salamanca.
2024-05-06 02:01:03
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