ICL Manresa loses the third game of the final in extra time

78 Melilla Baloncesto | Rodríguez 3, Almazán 14, Duran 3, Samb 8, Guerra 17; Kapelan 22, Djuran 9, Servera, Lucas 2 i Fall.

74 ICL Manresa | Costa 11, Lundberg 11, Allen 2, Martín 14 i Trias 11; Hamilton, Jou, Sakho 4, Muñoz 8 i Gintvainis 13.

Partials: 13-14, 14-11, 18-24, 20-16 i 13-9.

It could not be, and there will be a fourth game of the play-off final, also in Melilla. It will be Sunday at 12:00. A new opportunity for ICL Manresa to take the final and get promoted. After many tight matches, the majority won, they lost in Melilla, after an extension. The players outstanding visitors were Martin with 14 points, Gintvainis with 13 and Trias, Lundberg and Costa, who scored 11.

The match began with a local partial of 5 to 0, answered quickly by Manresa, with Lundberg. It was hard to score in the early stages, and nobody was right from triple. The partial at the end of the first period already says it all: 13-14 after a very locked game.

In the second period the tonic remained the same. The ICL Manresa could not run as he likes, and Gintvainis could not complete a 2 plus 1. Then, three-pointer of Muñoz to put the Bages for the first time, and the defense gave a 3-point advantage to the visitors, who It looked inverted in a few moments with an additional premises. The reds were 2 points below the break.

After passing through changing rooms, good partial of ICL Manresa, but before good home team start, with which Melilla got 8 points. Allen got a steal and reduced, and later tied Costa with a three-pointer. He adjusted the game, but a three-pointer by Martin gave the ICL Manresa 4 points to breathe at the end of the third period.

In the last quarter, it seemed that the hole that opened with three-pointer of Gintvainis and Costa's penetrations (49-59) could be definitive, but the team made mistakes in attack with losses in the last minutes and ended up giving the tie at the end of 40 minutes. In the extra time, Costa began with a three-pointer but was quickly neutralized, until a local triple and free throws ended up condemning Manresa.

Diego Ocampo said at the press conference that "we have left not very concentrated and abusing three-pointers, but little by little from the defensive pressure and with a good pace we have recovered; in the first part we have not played well in attack but the defense has saved us; when they were 10 points below the pressure and the defense of the direct blockade have been removed, added to the offenses and offensive rebounds they have achieved have easily cut; we have started well the extension, but then we have failed some easy launch, and the success has been decisive " .

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