The Teknei Zornotza ST conquered this Saturday his first LEB Silver Cup after defeating by 66-64 to the Sant Antoni Ibiza Feeling in the final disputed in the Biscayan pavilion of Larrea, after overcoming a disadvantage that was up to 14 points shortly before reaching the break.
The Balearic team began setting the standard (0-5) and hand in hand with the Croatian Matija Bilalović managed to dominate the first quarter (10-17) and extend the lead at halftime to 24-35 after having sent for 20-34 against a too tense Zornotza who accused in this first part of his condition as a local.
At the restart the team Mikel Garitaona India started to work and was reducing the disadvantage until he was ahead on the scoreboard for the first time two minutes to finish a third quarter (44-41) which ended with a 46-45.
The match entered a phase of equality, but from the tie at 49 (minute 32) Zornotza put in a march to win the trophy, despite the fact that Jordi Grimau He insisted on adding emotion to the final stretch.
A triple from the veteran Catalan shooting guard put the 66-64 35 seconds from the end and his own Grimau He missed a last pitch almost on the horn that could have turned the light around.
Alberto Cabrera (14 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists for a PIR of 25), a point guard from Tenerife on loan to Zornotza from CB Canarias, was the most valuable player in the final in which the Balearic side Bilalović (14 points) and Grimau (11) were the only players to exceed ten points.
Zornotza thus becomes the fourth Basque club to take this trophy created in 2001 after the Bilbao Basketball (2002), aberri of Vitoria (2012) and Iraurgi of Azkoitia-Azpeitia (2020 and 2021).
Source: Eitb
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