For the first date of the Federal League, Los Azules could not in their home debut against Social and Deportivo San José, by the minimum: 75-76.
The game was scheduled for 9:30 p.m. at the Gregorio Panizza Stadium, but due to technical problems, it had to be transferred to the Peñarol Sport Center and the kick-off was given almost an hour later.
The teams entered very concentrated without giving themselves an advantage in scoring. The first points came quickly, the visitor opened the scoring with a triple by Ortíz and in the second, Azules did it with a double by his intern Jovanovich, who the teammates were looking for to add along with Vergara and that way San José would not escape them, who in the last minute of the first quarter, with the Quarroz-Ortíz duo, took a small lead and won 15-20.
The second quarter was very similar to the first, when the locals played an outstanding game with Hauscarriague in attack and Thorp on the rebounds, the visitors reacted and thus managed to maintain the difference until the end of the quarter, going into the long break 6 points up (38 -44).
Upon returning from the locker room, Azules took over the game and, taking advantage of his point guard Copello, managed to go ahead on the scoreboard. The visitor quickly came into play with a triple by De la Rúa. Almost the entire quarter went both but the local took advantage of free throws and counterattacks in the last seconds to begin to dominate the game.
The last quarter had a closed end, Atlético dominated it until the last 46 seconds. From there, the outstanding point guard from San José took advantage of the local errors to go to the free throw line, turn history around and put his team up by the minimum, giving him the victory in the first date of the Federal League. .
SYNTHESIS
Rosario Tala Athletic Club (75): Jovanovich Marcos (8); Copello Luciano (12); Melchior Juan (2); Echeverria Nahuel (2); Hauscarriague Matias (19); Salinas Diego (0); Jonathan Thorp (14); Vegara Agustin (18); Maidana Tomas; Olmos Tomas; Larumbe Luca.
Soc. And Dep. San José (76): Manrique Lautaro (7); Dennis Emmanuel (4); Laurido Calos (0); Ortiz Facundo (13); Cot Valentino (1); Rebecchi Fabrizio (4); Barreto Facundo (5); Quarroz Leandro (17); Of The Rua Alan (14); Ravina Sergio (11); Martinez Thiago; Gonzalez Santiago.
Partials: 15-20, 23-24, 24-35, 13-17.
Stadium: Peñarol Sports Center.
Source: Atletico Tala Press