>Civitus Pallacanestro Vicenza wins their first away win in the third midweek of this season, always played away from home. The one to lose 69-76 Luxarm Lumezzane second in the standings, serving the absences due to disqualification after the marathon with Rucker.
In addition to a total fine of almost a thousand euros for offences, including those inspired by territorial discrimination, by the home crowd and the referees, the vehement protests against the referees at the end of the match resulted in the disqualifications of important players such as Cecchi for three matches and Vitols for two matches, while Di Meco only for one and was regularly on the pitch after paying a fine. However, it wasn’t enough for the Brescians who remained in the fight until their last breath, but had to succumb to the Berici for most of the match.
The race
Gasparin launches the men in the red jersey with 5 points in a row: it’s 4-10, then the sniper from Pesaro Amici keeps his team in touch, but Ucles is also in the evening. The match is immediately lively with the home team finishing the first half ahead by 1 point. The former player Brescianini also stands out tonight with more space on the parquet, but Cucchiaro responds. Then two triples from Gasparin put the guests back ahead (32-36) and at the end of the first half of the match Cucchiaro still scores Berico’s +9 from 6.75.
Gas still has the hot hand at the start of the second half and scores +10. Lumezzane soon reaches the foul bonus, coach Nuzzi calls the zone defense and gets closer with Amici. Ghirelli’s time out (photo on the cover) restores order and at the end of the third period Almansi guesses the 51-58. Da Campo scores on entry 5 minutes from the siren and +10 from the arc. With 1 minute left Di Meco reopens the contest and with free throws Luxarm gets back to -2.
Cucchiaro takes care of it with 5 points in a row 30 seconds from the end to dampen the enthusiasm of the home crowd and deliver the first away success to Civitus.
LuxArm Lumezzane – Civitus Pallacanestro Vicenza
69-76 (22-21, 12-22, 17-15, 18-18)
LuxArm Lumezzane:
Tommaso Minoli 15 (4/6, 2/6), Alessandro Amici 14 (2/5, 3/5), Manuel Di meco 13 (4/7, 1/4), Giacomo Baldini 11 (4/11, 1/3), Lamine Tandia 10 (4/10, 0/0), Giovanni Brescianini 6 (1/ 1, 1/1), Francesco Deminicis 0 (0/0, 0/2), Filippo Becchetti 0 (0/0, 0/0), Nicola Arrighini 0 (0/0, 0/0), NicolÒ Salvinelli 0 ( 0/0, 0/0), Lorenzo Varaschin 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 7 / 11 – Rebounds: 32 2 + 30 (Tommaso Minoli 8) – Assists: 10 (Alessandro Amici 4)
Civitus Basketball Vicenza:
Giovanni Gasparin 19 (2/8, 5/6), Mattia Da campo 16 (3/8, 3/8), Valerio Cucchiaro 14 (0/2, 4/6), Federico Ucles belmonte 9 (3/7, 0 /1), Gian Paolo Almansi 8 (1/4, 2/7), Curtis Nwohuocha 6 (3/8, 0/0), Nicholas Carr 2 (1/2, 0/1), Lorenzo Vanin 2 (1/ 1, 0/0), Tommaso Presutto 0 (0/0, 0/0), Tommaso Marangoni 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 6 / 9 – Rebounds: 38 6 + 32 (Federico Ucles belmonte 10) – Assists: 11 (Giovanni Gasparin 4)
Source Pallacanestro Vicenza 2012
