BAXI Manresa wins a close game again
After dominating from the start on the Bàsquet Girona court and seeing how the rival came back in the last seconds, a basket by Badio and a great defense by Travanté gave the Bages team their fifteenth victory.
83 Bàsquet Girona I Marcos 5, Iroegbu 22, Martínez 10, Pons 6 and Sorolla 2; Fjellerup 2, Vila 5, Colom 16, Birch 2, Chery 5, Susinskas 6 and Djordjevic 2
84 BAXI Manresa I Dani Pérez 13, Travanté 11, Vaulet, Robinson 10 and Oriola 2; Badio 13, Dani García, Taylor 13, Steinbergs 3, Sagnia 2, Mawugbe 8 and Geben 9
Partials: 25-30, 21-22, 14-21, 23-11
BAXI Manresa obtained the fifteenth victory of the season after winning by the minimum on the court of Bàsquet Girona (83-84). The Manresans dominated from the beginning but were about to let the game slip away in the final seconds, when a basket by Badio and great defense by Travanté prevented it. In this way, Bages' team continues to have a good dynamic of results: they added the third consecutive victory and chained the fourth consecutive victory away from home.
After a few first moments with alternatives and exchange of baskets by both teams, the visitors scored three three-pointers in a row and opened a gap on the scoreboard (11-20). The home team reacted and got closer to just one point before a new escape from Pedro Martínez's team (25-30).
In the second quarter, the team from Girona came out better and managed to come back and take the lead (40-37). However, the team from Manresa did not get nervous and scored eleven consecutive points to be eight ahead (40-48), a difference that was cut to six at halftime (46-52).
Returning from the locker room, Bages' team continued to dominate and enjoyed a maximum difference of fourteen points. At the end of the third quarter, the visitors had the game very well underway (60-73).
In the last ten minutes, it seemed that Bages' team were solid and would close the game without too much suffering (69-82 after just over three minutes), but the home team had not said the last word and, thanks to a strong partial 14-0, they took the lead in the last eighteen seconds. In these, a basket by Badio and great defense by Travanté sealed a fifteenth victory that was more difficult than expected.
On Sunday starting at 12:30 BAXI Manresa will once again play away from Nou Congost, this time on the complicated court of Real Madrid, the leader of the Endesa League.