John Cardarello
After two weeks away from the “important” matches, the Ueb Gesteco Cividale embraced its audience again in via Perusini to find the energy charge and start the clock phase on the right foot, immediately finding one of the two opponents who start with her at the head of the blue group, that Urania Milano which presented itself in Friuli with the wind in its sails, after an open streak of 4 consecutive successes and the fame of the team from the triple easy.
Mission accomplished at the end of a match conducted with great authority from start to finish with the “usual” contribution of the yellow tide, Pepper and Redivo, authors together of 44 points and a team defensive test that did not grant the Milanese the usual target practice.
Pillastrini sends Rota, Redivo, Miani, Pepper and Dell’Agnello onto the parquet while Villa replies with ex APU Amato and Ebeling plus Potts, Hill and Pullazi and the beginning records a match in perfect balance with Miani and Pepper inspired on the ducal front and the score at 13-13 in the middle of the fraction after a triple by Amato and with Dell’Agnello committing the first foul of ten on the pitch 3’44” from the first siren which is reached with the scoreboard stopped at 23-20 with 15 points from Pepper.
At the start of the second period, the American continues to drag his team from the arc, pushing them forward by 14 lengths (34-20) at 6’47” also thanks to the rediscovered defensive intensity which allows the ducals to close ahead 46-34 at long interval, with the meneghini who manage to mend the break only in the last minute thanks to shots from the line. In the third fraction both teams raise the defense further, with the effect of seeing the shooting percentages drop, but Cividale maintains concentration and with a newfound Lucio Redivo they are still up by 15 points (56-41) at 3’57 ” from the penultimate siren, to which they arrive ahead on 62-48.
The last period sees the offensive fluidity of the ducals jam at the start but not the defense which continues to force the guests to percentages that are far from their habits so that with 5’09” from the end they are still above 71-56 before Redivo again puts the tombstone on the match with 11 consecutive points for the 84-56 at 2’45”, momentum for the ride of Pillastrini’s men who detach Milan and take first place in the group with the eloquent final 89-62 and with the debut of the son of coach Pillastrini and Cattelan for the last 32 seconds of the match.
The UEB scorecard Gesteco Cividale – Urania Milano 89-62 (23-20, 23-14, 16-14, 27-14)
UEB Gesteco Cividale: Dalton Pepper 23 (4/8, 5/8), Lucio Redivo 21 (3/6, 3/6), Aristide Mouaha 11 (4/6, 1/2), Giacomo Dell’ pugnale 10 (2/5, 1 /1), Gabriele Miani 10 (5/5, 0/3), Leonardo Battistini 8 (2/4, 0/2), Eugenio Rota 3 (0/0, 0/3), Giacomo Furin 3 (1/5 , 0/0), Alessandro Cassese 0 (0/0, 0/0), Giovanni Catellan 0 (0/0, 0/0), Tommaso Pillastrini 0 (0/0, 0/1), Enrico Micalich 0 (0 /0, 0/0)
Free throws: 17 / 21 – Rebounds: 43 8 + 35 (Leonardo Battistini 13) – Assists: 16 (Lucio Redivo, Eugenio Rota 5)
Urania Milan: Michele Ebeling 12 (5/6, 0/5), Rei Pullazi 11 (1/6, 3/8), Kyndahl Hill 10 (5/11, 0/0), Giddy Potts 9 (3/6, 1/8 ), Giorgio Piunti 9 (0/2, 2/4), Andrea Amato 7 (2/7, 1/6), Matteo Montano 2 (1/5, 0/3), Simone Valsecchi 2 (1/1, 0 /0), Andrea Marra 0 (0/0, 0/0), Matteo Cavallero 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 5 / 7 – Rebounds: 40 16 + 24 (Rei Pullazi 11) – Assists: 13 (Andrea Amato 7)
