Quarrata – Basketball Club Lucca 77-81 (13-20, 35-54, 58-70)
DANY QUARRATA: Falaschi, Sevieri, Toppo 13, Cannone 8, Cantrè 3, Vannoni, Baroncelli 10, Calugi 9, Vettori 2, Riccio 24, Cukai 8- All. Valerio, Ass. Tasselli, Livi
BASKETBALL CLUB LUCCA: Lippi 6, Piercecchi, Barsanti 17, Russo 5, Benini 24, Vona 8, Landucci 3, Simonetti 7, Burgalassi 5, Pierini 6, Cattani. All. Tonfoni, Ass. Pizzolante, Nalin
Beautiful corsair victory for the Lucca Basketball Club on the Carrara parquet.
First possession for the Bcl and the first two points by Benini, in a decidedly sparkling start to the game. The guys from Tonfoni immediately took the “ball” in hand, taking the lead from the first minute and putting a small margin between them and the hosts that saw them go to close the first quarter at 13/20
At the resumption of the game the inertia continues to push hard the Bcl that manages to keep the margin gained in the first 10 minutes of the game.
To put on a show in the opening minutes of the second quarter is Beniniwho finds more solutions to attack the masters’ basket, bringing the advantage of the Bcl to plus 10, with a Quarrata, who has however raised the revs of his engine, and shows him with two baskets of over six meters that bring him closer to the Lucca, 30/34 three minutes from the long rest.
To put out the “blaze” that could have set fire to Palamela we think Russo, Burgalassi and a wild Lippi together with the other teammates, and in less than three minutes they regain altitude going to the most 14. Then some referees decisions not really appreciated by the hosts, send the home bench and the Quarrata public into a tailspin, creating the conditions for the expulsion of the coach and a manager of Dany Basket Quarrata. THEn a truly incandescent quarter-final, the Bcl benefits from a series of free throws that propel him to plus 19 at the end of the quarter.
The second part of the match restarts with a contracted Bclfeeling the effects of the scorching minutes of the previous quarter, while the hosts seem revitalized by the situation created.
Show off cannons of great shooting ability shortening at least 13 in the four minutes of play of the third quarter. The Bcl now needs a lot of calm and patience to curb the thrust of the hosts, to mitigate the comeback of Dany Basket Quarrata we think Burgalassi and Benini, then what should never have happened happens, Barsanti collapses with severe pain in his calf and is forced to leave the field.
Benini loads the team on his shoulders and first from below and then from the average he brings the advantage to plus 15, it is however a difficult phase of the game for the guys of Tonfoni, the opponent’s pressing does not allow to build clean actions to go for the basket, so much so that Quarrata wins the fourth for 23-16, while the scoreboard reads 58-70.
Last quarter with very aggressive hostsin just two minutes they recover a lot reaching at least six, Tonfoni calls his boys back to the bench, to try to break the rhythm of the opponents who have drawn a lot of energy from the previous events, also supported by a very warm audience ..
With a good counterattack Vona stretchesand Toppo replies from below: the shooting percentages fall, however, too much haste leads to inaccuracy, after six minutes of play there are only 4 points scored by Bcl and 11 by Quarrata.
Landucci tries to remove the chestnuts from the fire with a stellar triple, to which they respond with another triple from distance, 74/77 and two and a half minutes to play
It is a frenetic final, where the Bcl defends itself with all it can, Quarrata believes in it to the end, approaching dangerously up to the final siren that gives the two points to Coach Tonfoni, 77-81 and heads to the next one.
