Fibwi Palma has shown that they know how to suffer to win on a difficult court, that of Safir Fruits Alginet, by 98-102, adding their fourteenth win of the season.
The duel began with a good job from Fibwi Palma against a willing Safir Fruits Alginet and placed itself with a favorable 7-13 after the first three minutes of a game in which Paul Thomas had put on the dance floor a quintet made up of Dante Lombardi, David Font, Asier Zengotitabengoa, Viktor Kovacevic e Ishmael Tamba. The Mallorcans were involved in the duel and with a triple by Dante Lombardi they put the Mallorcans in clear advantage. Another triple, in this case of Asier Zengotitabengo, He left the duel at 11-19 for the Mallorcans, forcing the local bench to stop the match. Fibwi Palma remained focused and achieved close the first quarter with a favorable 18-26 after a remarkable team effort and with Viktor Kovacevic as the most outstanding player with 11 points and 6 rebounds in the first quarter alone.
in the second room the figure of Asier Zengotitabengoa emerged that with his success from the triple he put the Majorcans with land in the middle in a second quarter in which Fibwi Palma continued to be very serious with outstanding plays such as the 3 + 1 of John Feliu which put the duel at 27-36. The people from Palma managed to easily find the rival basket and shot up on the scoreboard with three-pointers from Joan Feliu and Asier Zengotitabengoa himself that placed the score at 39-59. Two more shots from Anyeuri Castillo left the duel at 39-61 going to rest the two teams with 46-63.
After a few first minutes of inaccuracies by both teams, Preston scored for the locals and Cure He did the same for Fibwi Palma putting the score at 49-66. However, It was going to be the locals who came out of the locker room better and they closed the gap against a Fibwi Palma who couldn’t find the hit until Ismael Tamba, after a good assist from David Font, left the duel at 60-73. The bad scoring moment of the people from Palma continued while the locals they cut distances putting 68-73 at two and a half minutes to the end of the quarter spurred on by his audience. A free kick from Viktor Kovacevic broke the losing streak for Pau Tomàs’ men and Dante Lombardi with a three-pointer from eight meters put the match at 70-77. Three points from Asier Zengotitabengoa in the final stretch of the fourth they left the match at 73-80 for Pau Tomàs’ men that they had managed to survive a third quarter in which the lack of success had made them lose their wide advantage.
Fibwi Palma recovered at the beginning of the last quarter with more success than in the previous ten minutes with Asier Zengotitabengoa and Dante Lombardi scoring to put the distance on the scoreboard, leaving the duel at 76-88. The people from Palma remained firm in the last quarter and entered the final stretch of the game with 85-95 on the scoreboard. A 5-0 run from the locals brought the match to a close (90-95) a minute and a half to the end of the game. Preston put the score at 92-95. In the last 30 seconds of the game, Zengotitabengoa scored from the triple and David Font did the same with a free kick, putting the match at 92-100. The locals, with a lot of success from three, they put the duel at 98-101 with two seconds to go. Joan Feliu scored one of his two shots from the free kick and left the game at 98-102, thus giving victory to Pau Tomàs’ team, adding their fourteenth victory of the season, which also allows them to regain fifth place in the standings
Sapphire Fruits Alginate: Sergio Romero (13), Miguel Martinez (11), Luke Dmitrovic (7), Lukas Kvedaravicius (15), Hunter Preston (26). Sergio Hernandez (0), Javi Dalmau (5), Adrian Galvez (11), Alan Kleinjan (8) and Luis Verdeguer (2) also played.
Palm fibers: Dante Lombardi (12), David Font (13), Asier Zengotitabengoa (25), Ismael Tamba (9), Viktor Kovacevic (18). They also played Lucas Antúnez (0), Anyeuri Castillo (8), Milan Suskavcevic (6), Joan Feliu (11).
Partial: 18-26, 28-37, 27-17 y 25-22.
Referees: Del Val Nuño and Pastrana González. Eliminated for fouls Miguel Martínez. They pointed out technique to Jose Antonio Canales, coach of Safir Fruits Alginet and unsportsmanlike to Dante Lombardi