It is immediately redeeming for Paffoni, who at the Pala Battisti in Verbania stops Langhe Roero Basketball at 74 to 63, resuming the race in first place in front – once again – of a very hot and increasingly involved audience.
Ready to go is the San Bernardo Abet to take the reins of the game. At the end of the first quarter, however, Paffoni opens the partial: Santucci’s bomb at the end, overtaking and break of 13 to 0 between the quarters. Balanzoni near the basket is irrepressible, but LRB resists and remains in the wake, closing down 7 at the long break, on the score 35 to 28. In the second half Professor Planezio takes the chair: triple, assists for his teammates, feints and defenses. high school for the captain of the Fulgor, who launches the red-green escape with the audience in raptures. The last quarter shows all the character of the Langhe: Perez and Antonietti hit the heart of the defense and narrow the gap. But Paffoni is in control and the result is on ice.
It ends 74 to 63 amid the applause of an increasingly full Baptist to live!
Now it will be the moment of truth for coach Fioretti’s team: double match away against two of the battleships in the group, next Sunday in Castellanza, against Legnano, complete with a red-green bus organized, and Sunday 17 April in Vigevano.
At the end of the game it was coach Giorgio Contigiani to comment on the success of Paffoni: “A great win! There is great availability on the part of the players and the steps forward bode well. With the exception of the first five minutes of the fourth period, we played a really good game. We are satisfied, but we must work to limit these blackouts, especially away from home, from now on, we will have to be lucid for forty minutes».
