Basketball, Serie A: Virtus wins the extra, Milan ko with Fortitudo | News

BASKETBALL TRIESTE-SEGAFREDO VIRTUS BOLOGNA 85-89 OT
The course of Virtus Bologna remains at the top of the standings, but Trieste's victory is anything but easy and it requires a Teodosic in deluxe version, 24 points and 5 assists at the end, to bend an opponent who, despite the difficult ranking situation makes hard life for Djordjevic's team. Trieste starts strong and is ahead at the end of the first quarter thanks above all to Elmore's 9 points, the second in which Bologna goes even further. Cavaliero from the bench has a crazy impact and beats the mid-game siren with the bomb that writes 48-35 Trieste. The Virtus, however, emerges angrily from the locker room and returns forcefully into the game, with the hosts at the end of the third period maintaining a minimum margin on 60-55, while in the last 10 minutes of the regulations they travel on the thin thread of balance. Trieste tries to give the final shoulder building a 6 point advantage, stitched up by Teodosic's bets, including triples, assists and free throws: the siren is 72-72, the overtime is the realm of the Serb who puts 7 thread points, a senseless bomb 30 seconds from the end and gives the ninth consecutive success at the Virtus.

POMPEA FORTITUDO BOLOGNA-AX ARMANI EXCHANGE OLIMPIA MILANO 85-80
The other part of Bologna also smiles, with Fortitudo defeating Olimpia and hitting it in the standings at 10 points. A race that Bologna controls for most of its duration, before a final in which the hosts risk wasting all the good things they were able to build. The two teams seem to have a different energy, a figure highlighted by the second quarter in which Fortitudo runs away and thanks to Robertson's three triples in the middle of the game a solid advantage was built on 45-31. Milan also slipped back by 21 points during the third period, but pride slips a partial 15-4 and at the last siren is back 61-51. The 76-64 signed by Roll 3 minutes from the end seems to write the word on the challenge, but Milan climbs unexpectedly until 84-80 before having to finally raise the white flag.

DE LONGHI TREVISO-GERMANI BASKET BRESCIA 72-68
Brilliant Brescia and so Treviso took the opportunity to win success after having been practically always ahead during the match. In the starting line, Parks pushes De Longhi who at the half-time is 38-29 ahead with a formidable triple from Logan to close the first part of the race, with Germani continuing to mess up. The same Logan and Laquintana support the attack of Treviso on the return of the locker rooms, with Brescia still lagging behind, but it closes again up to 54-52 with the Sacchetti bomb which seems to give Germani relief at the beginning of the fourth period. Nikolic almost single-handedly repels the guest re-entry which finally loses out on Lansdowne's lost ball 18 seconds from the end.

EAGLE BASKET TRENTO-VANOLI BASKET CREMONA 79-89
Even without Travis Diener Cremona takes the victory in the noon advance on the field of Trento, which is not enough for a great performance by Alessandro Gentile who is not properly assisted by the rest of his team mates. Match in balance in the first half, the score goes to elastic and the long break Vanoli is ahead of a single point on 44-43. Akele tries to push forward Cremona, the usual Gentile is ready to respond even in the last quarter, while on the other side is Stojanovic to record with six points in a row. Cremona can finally relax only when Mathews shoves the bomb at 77 seconds from the end giving 8 points of margin to the guests against an Eagle that can no longer return.

OPENJOBMETIS VARESE-HUMAN REYER VENICE 93-91 OT
Another extra is the one that is staged in Varese with Openjobmetis that bends only after 45 minutes a Venice that remains so dry of external victories in this championship. The departure of Varese perhaps surprises the guests who thus soon find themselves reeling under a double-digit disadvantage that remains so even at the interval on the 41-24 in favor of Varese. Venice tries to return starting from the defense that is set in the zone, with the Umana that possession after possession goes back up to arrive at -1 on the 53-52 that becomes even advantage 57-56 with the three-point game closed by Chappell. Final tense, Mayo throws himself into penetration and without fear marks, Daye misses the possible shot of victory and then it is overtime. Mayo slips 8 of his 25 points here, Chappell does not take the last chance and then Varese is smiling.

ORIORA PISTOIA-WATER SAN BERNARDO CANTÙ 77-69
In a delicate challenge in optics salvation Pistoia imposes itself on Cantu and gets a heavy success, determined above all by the partial Oriora of 26-13 found during the third quarter of the game. Pistoia pulls badly at the start, but the defense sends the host attack into a tailspin that is struggling to find the basket, before the break Burnell and Young begin to punish the defensive choices of the East and so Cantu at the break is ahead 38-35 . As said when returning from the locker room, the face of the race changes completely, with Pistoia building a 10-point margin, maintained with another final mini-extension after Cantu had also returned just two points away from the middle of the last period.

VIRTUS ROME-CARPEGNA PROSCIUTTO PESARO 92-83
Rome continues to remain in the important parts of the standings thanks to the home victory against Pesaro, which still remains without points in the standings and may perhaps have some regrets after the 40 minutes of the evening postponement. Race always in balance, Virtus is never able to completely shake off the presence of Carpegna that despite spending many of the minutes of the race to chase always manages somehow to return. Everything was then decided in the final sprint, with Roma finding two very important bombs with Dyson and Kyzlink, along with the three-point game completed by Jefferson who sealed the victory in favor of Rome. In Pesaro the 23 points of Barford are not enough, the best scorer of the whole race.