The Civitus Pallacanestro Vicenza 2012 also falls on the small field of the Fiorenzuola Bees, which has yet to find the right mix at this start of the championship.
Vicenza Basketball 2012
The start for Ghirelli’s men was comforting with baskets from Da Campo (8 points in 10 minutes) and Ucles in a remarkable drive to the basket which supports the 5-11. The berici keep their heads ahead at the first siren, but Fiorenzuola immediately gets back into contact and overtakes after two minutes.
Almansi immediately equalizes from three and Ucles imitates him shortly after, Nwohuocha with a left hook and Cucchiaro bring the advantage of the men in red to +9, but the Bees come back again. Guaccio commits his second personal foul and the coach also arrives following a protest, but the home team ends up 3 ahead at half time.
In the second half
Ucles stops and provides an assist for Cucchiaro, Gasparin lights up again for Ucles and Vicenza is -1 after 5 minutes. Then Almansi and Marangoni from the arc put Civitus back in the lead (48-50) and Gasparin once again opens the ball in the last quarter. The two foreigners Pavlovic and Ucles (22 points and 14 rebounds for the red and white big man) give life to a high school duel on the parquet, Da Campo on the counterattack scores the -4 with 2 minutes left, but De Negri finds a very heavy basket from out which brings his team back to +8 and forces Vicenza to suffer their second defeat of the season, called to another away match on the Legnano pitch on Sunday.
Fiorenzuola Bees – Civitus Pallacanestro Vicenza 83-73 (12-17, 26-18, 20-21, 25-17)
Fiorenzuola Bees:
Ozren Pavlovic 16 (3/5, 2/5), Matteo Negri 13 (0/1, 3/4), Luca Galassi 11 (0/2, 3/7), Magaye Seck 9 (4/5, 0/0 ), Riccardo Bottioni 9 (0/2, 2/3), Niccolò Venturoli 8 (1/3, 2/4), Ilija Biorac 6 (3/6, 0/0), Alessandro Voltolini 5 (1/2, 1 /1), Angelo Guaccio 4 (1/2, 0/1), Mourtada Gaye serigne 2 (0/0, 0/1), Sebastian Redini 0 (0/0, 0/0), Filippo Clerici 0 (0/ 0, 0/0)
Free throws: 18 / 21 – Rebounds: 24 3 + 21 (Ilija Biorac 5) – Assists: 17 (Riccardo Botioni 5)
Civitus Basketball Vicenza:
Federico Ucles Belmonte 22 (7/16, 1/2), Gian Paolo Almansi 14 (0/1, 4/6), Mattia Da Campo 13 (4/9, 0/2), Valerio Cucchiaro 10 (1/3, 2/3), Curtis Nwohuocha 6 (2/5, 0/0), Giovanni Gasparin 6 (0/3, 1/2), Tommaso Presutto 2 (1/1, 0/0), Tommaso Marangoni 0 (0/ 0, 0/2), Lorenzo Vanin 0 (0/0, 0/0), Nicholas Carr 0 (0/3, 0/0), Pietro Cecchin 0 (0/0, 0/0)
Free throws: 19 / 20 – Rebounds: 35 12 + 23 (Federico Ucles belmonte 14) – Assists: 11 (Valerio Cucchiaro 4)
