The game started in a dream way for the locals who in the blink of an eye before 2 minutes had already won 9 to 0. A request for a minute from the visiting bench limited the result to 4 points, but throughout the 10 minutes Independiente prevailed on the scoreboard and closed it 28 to 15, with Arca predominant under the board and Andrizzi, Puente and San Martín as company from the outside zone. Accompanied by the good transfer of Gastón Disalvo in the red and black base.
The pressure and suffocation on the visiting team’s mark led to the score narrowing in the second period. Some losses appeared in those directed by Álvaro Castiñeira and he also had to accommodate himself to the serious injury suffered by point guard Juan Larrea from Córdoba, averaging the first half. The fourth went to IAE, who had in Tomás Cattaneo the clearest part of the visit when it came to finding the rival hoop. It was thus that the first half was for those from Tandil 39-31.
The second half marked the question of knowing if Independiente could keep up the rhythm of the game against a rival that pressed all over the field, and although disorderly, they remained expectant on the scoreboard. I didn’t pay it because Gastón Disalvo was key, scoring from long range with sharp drives that kept Independiente away on the board. In numbers, the third period was very similar to the first, once again converting the host above 25 points and taking a difference of 17 points at the end of the third.
Against another rival, the game would have been close, but it was not like that because the Albert Einstein Institute increased the pressure and managed to get within sight of the scoreboard with only 3.11 minutes of the last 10 played, with a partial of 13 to 0, and began another game. Independiente’s doubts regarding the closure and the old ghosts of the past Federal were present at the Martignoni, but the good advantage and the rotation made during the game allowed those led by Castiñeira to always be up on the scoreboard, beyond winning it at some point in the absence of less than 2 minutes for 1 unit. Arca was once again dominant in the end and took Pedro Garma and Martín Conzoli off the field due to fouls, something that the red and black pivot also suffered with 28 seconds to go. IAE had victory four times from the three-point line with three shots by Francisco Quaglia and one by Valentino Callegari, who did not find nets, sealed with the tranquility of the free throw line, by one of the figures, Gastón Disalvo. It was thus that with 4 seconds to play and 3 under, the away team could not shoot comfortably to extend the match and that is how Independiente celebrated a long-suffering victory in the end, consolidated throughout the match and driving away the old ghosts from the beginning of the year. of each game closure.
Arca, San Martín and Di Salvo were decisive in a match that was complicated but that was won by whoever did things better in the 40 minutes.
Victory for the Tandilenses by 79 to 76, which next Saturday will get on the road to play their first away game against Kimberly in Mar del Plata.
Synthesis
INDEPENDENT 79: Gastón Di Salvo 13, Federico San Martín 17, Lautaro Lanusse 10, Valerio Andrizzi 8, Alejandro Arca 19, Juan M. Larrea 1, Matías Gutkin 0, Manuel Puente 8, Francisco Saucedo 3
DT: Álvaro Castiñeira
IAE 76: Valentin Callegari 17, Manuel Castellani 6, James Monacchi (x) 6, Francisco Quaglia 8, Pedro Garma (x) 17, Martin Consoli (x) 2, Thomas Cattaneo 6, Manuel Cattaneo 13, Gaston Consoli 0, Joaquin Consoli
DT: Pablo Gil
Basketball court: Independent
referees: Carlos Merchan and Julio Villacorta
partial: 28-15, 39-31 y 65-48
Source: Independent Press
