A two-faced meeting between the people of Marsala and those from Orland. The guests were always ahead in the first half, but the hosts came back after the long interval to gain two important points which revitalize the table.
Marsala 8/12/2024 – Nuova Pallacanestro Marsala returns to victory within friendly walls on the tenth day of the 2024-25 Serie C championship, winning 72-62 against a difficult Nova Basket Capo d’Orlando, overturning in the second half the result of the match with the guests still ahead in the first two quarters.
The first quarter sees Grillo’s boys in trouble against the Orlandini, who immediately after the two-ball take the lead 0-7 with Sidoti and Samardzic and extend to +11 in the final due to too many inaccuracies under the basket by the locals, who shorten the disadvantage on the last possession with Tartamella. The first half of the game ends 11-20.
The music doesn’t change much in the second quarter, with the Marsala team imprecise especially from the arc as they chase Nova Basket who finds an important weapon under the basket in the centimeters of Charumbira (the team’s best scorer together with Sidoti with 16 points for both). NPM struggled to mend the gap between the guests who went up to +15 3 minutes from the changing rooms. We go to long break at 24-37.
It is a transformed NPM that regains the field after the break: the third quarter sees Stankovic (19 points for him), Miculis and Farruggia as protagonists, who with a 9-0 break bring NPM to -4 on 33-37 after 3 ′ game. The guests felt the pinch and the balls recovered by Tartamella together with the triples by Farruggia and Gentile allowed the Marsala team to attack and overcome their opponents. We go to the final break at 53-51 thanks to Chen’s seal.
Galvanized by the comeback, in the last period of the game NPM rejected Nova Basket’s counter-overtaking attempts by scoring several times from medium distance with Farruggia and hitting twice from the arc with Gentile. The Orlandini pull the oars and the Marsala people can therefore manage the advantage until the final siren which goes off with the final score of 72-62.
Among the notes of the meeting to be recorded is the award ceremony with a commemorative plaque for Fausto Pizzo, historic manager of NPM, whom the president Peppe Grillo and the vice-president Alfonso Cascoschi wanted to pay homage to for the great commitment made in recent years.
Nuova Pallacanestro Marsala will return to the field away on Sunday 15 December at 6.30pm against Basket Giarre.
SCORESHEET:
Nuova Pallacanestro Marsala – Nova Basket Capo d’Orlando 72-62
Partials: 11-20, 13-17, 29-14, 19-11.
New Marsala Basketball: Farruggia 14, Miculis 9, Cucchiara, Abrignani, Donato 2, Linares 1, Gentile 12, Stankovic 19, Chen 2, Tartamella 11, Niang 2. Coach Grillo G.
Nova Basket Capo d’Orlando: Carlo Stella 4, Albana, Triolo, Paez, Charumbira 16, Samardzic 18, Vujic 8, Sidoti 16, Colica none, Fontana none. All. Pizzuto C.
Referees: Licari B. from Marsala (TP) and Lo Presti E. from Agrigento
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