Coach Azzollini starts the game with Villa, Mentonelli, Scali, Bini and Infante. Coach Vettese responds with Teghini, Borsato, Ani, Lestini and Ly-Lee. Very balanced, the start of the game is a succession of conclusions (scored) from long distance: the triples of Bini, Mentonelli and Villa on the one hand, are answered by Teghini, Lestini, Borsato and Ly-Lee on the other. After only 6 ‘of play, the score reads 16-17 in favor of the travelers of the BPC Virtus Cassino. At this point, four consecutive triples scored by the usual Villa (MVP of the match), by Mentonelli and Di Giuliomaria allow Pavimaro Pallacanestro Molfetta to place the first break of the evening and to close the first portion of the game with an advantage over the score of 28-20.
The second period of play opens following the trend of the previous one, with the hosts who, thanks to a 4-0 run, increase the gap between the two teams even more (32-30), before the Cassinate partial counter signed entirely from Bagnoli and Teghini: at 17 ‘it is 35-30. Villa’s triple and four points in a row scored in the area by Captain Bini close the fourth, sending the two contenders to the long break with a score of 42-35.
Two long-distance conclusions by Bini and Scali open the second half of the race, immediately bringing Molfetta back to ten points ahead. The Lazio, guided by the physicality and the baskets in the area of Lestini and Ani, try to reduce the gap (48-42), but first Infante and Bini under the basket, then Epifani with the basket and foul and with the three-point shot, allow the training led by Coach Azzollini to return to a safe distance, closing the period on a score of 60-46.
In the last ten minutes of the game, the red and white have the sole task of administering the match and returning to the sender any attempt to recover the ever tame team coached by Coach Luca Vettese. Eleven points from a wild Villa and three points from Mentonelli give the hosts the maximum advantage of the evening (74-55), definitively closing the dispute. The final at PalaPoli is 74-59.
With this victory, Pavimaro Pallacanestro Molfetta overturns the goal difference of the first leg match and rises to 18 points in the standings (with one race less). Next match for the red and white on Sunday 3 April at 18:00 at PalaPoli against Lapietra Monopoli.
