Wixo LPR Piacenza – Azimut Modena 3-2 (29-27, 17-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-12) – Wixo LPR Piacenza: Baranowicz 3, Parodi 3, Alletti 8, Fei 26, Marshall 13, Yosifov 12, Clevenot 20, Cottarelli 0, Kody 2, Giuliani (L). N.E. Di Martino, Hershko, Manià. All. Giuliani. Azimut Modena: Mossa De Rezende 2, Ngapeth E. 24, Mazzone 12, Van Garderen 11, Urnaut 23, Bossi 6, Rossini (L), Tosi (L), Franciskovic 0, Holt 0, Argenta 0. N.E. Marra, Ngapeth S., Pinali. All. Stoytchev. ARBITRI: La Micela Sandro, Pozzato. NOTE – durata set: 35′, 26′, 31′, 28′, 21′; tot: 141′ MVP Fei
Emotional Derby of Emilia on tonight at PalaBanca in Piacenza between Wixo Lpr Piacenza and Azimut Modena. In fourth Round of Second Half took place a big battle in Piacenza, which saw the home team Wixo Lpr winning over the favourite opponents Modena, a team who’s suffering some bad injuries in some key players as Giulio Sabbi and Maxwell Philip Holt. Alberto Giuliani’s team won at the extras first set 29-27, in second Radostin Stoytchev’s team fought back by winning clearly second 25-17, riding the wave and winning also the third 25-22. Thanks to a great Alessandro Fei, in the end Mvp of the game with 26 points, Piacenza came back in fourth 25-23, grabbing the tie break spot, and winning the fifth 15-12 in a great happening. Best scorer for Piacenza as we said was Alessandro Fei with 26 points, followed by Trevor Clevenot with 20. For Modena the best scorer wasEarvin Ngapeth with 24 points, with Tine Urnaut with 23 points.
MVP: Alessandro Fei
Spettatori: 2039
Alessandro Fei (Wixo LPR Piacenza): “We did not took advantage of the physical troubles of Modena, we could close the game before the tie break. We have to continue to work at our best on our strengths, in practice we are intense, we should continue to work this way”.
Radostin Stoytchev (Azimut Modena): “Piacenza was good in handling the game and taking advantage of our mistakes. Now we hve to wait the come back of Sabbi, soon we’ll have another opinion about his health, we hope to have him soon on court”.