Chronicle provided by Club Básquet Santfeliuenc
Undoubtedly, a legendary team. Pajarraco CB Santfeliuenc performed an impressive feat and defeated leaders Odilo Cartagena for the third time this season. He had previously done the same with Maderas Sorlí Benicarló and Sant Antoni, which now regains first place in the classification. A feat that shows the blue power in the decisive moments. Great collective work. CB Santfeliuenc controlled the match at all times and knew how to resist the arrivals of Cartagena, who never managed to get ahead on the scoreboard. Important advance for CBS with five games left until the end of the league, which is expected to be exciting.
Spectacular exit
Pajarraco CB Santfeliuenc went all out on the floor. Cowart was a nightmare for Murcia’s defense, Castellón dominated his duel with Cera and Brià, Gerard and Guim bit against an opponent who was too slow and without many resources (13-6, 5′). Three points in a row by Codinachs and a basket by Brià closed a first quarter that raised sincere hopes (25-14).
The second quarter did not change the script too much, although the Cartagena players began to breathe better. The first five minutes were an exchange of baskets with a certain blue advantage. Zanca and Brià took advantage of the spaces opened by the American Cowart to draw a polite distance (36-22). But Cartagena, which was in the lead at Sant Feliu for a reason, began to show details of quality and more intensity to reduce the deficit to seven points (41-34). The younger Garuba brother found baskets against a slightly nervous CBS. Despite everything, the blues reacted again and a 6-0 run with points from Gerard Martínez and Brià brought happiness back to the stands. A fan who left at half-time with the illusion of beating their lips, but with sadness due to an untimely third personal by Cowart that could condition the rest of the story (47-37).
The hour of truth
Complicated start. Cartagena turned the wind and adjusted the electronic (47-44, 22′). Beraza and Álex Jordá marked the profile. Coward, conditioned by the mistakes, tried to hold on. CBS, however, found solutions to carry the game skillfully. Zanca, Cowart and especially Brià in one of those days in which he is touched by God (58-48). The final actions left us with an exchange of baskets and the fourth personnel of Cowart. It was necessary to take a deep breath (61-53).
The final quarter opened with a clear horizon thanks to two baskets by Llorens (65-56). Santfeliuenc knew he had to moderate the game to contain Cartagena’s rampant attacks. They were minutes in which Pol Olivier knew how to defend very well, Cowart balanced and Brià added (69-58, 35′). Cartagena tried to present a battle until the end. Six points in a row compressed the score (69-63). Minutes of tension and restraint in the fans. Nil Brià made the triple of the season with aerial acrobatics in a ball first rejected by the iron and then entering the net, we don’t know if it was pushed by God (77-70). Eternity in a day. The last 90 seconds became eternal, endless, agonizing. Amalgamation of personal, distributed errors and nerves wrapped in hope in a victory that could no longer escape. The outcome was resolved from the free kick. The blues knew how to keep a sufficient income in mined territory and the desperate Cartagena could not with the fortress of the JCN. Checkmate, Pajarraco crushed the departmental cage.
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A new masterful play. This Pajarraco soars high in critical moments. Again a leader, and there are already three, comes out scalded from the clutches of CBS. The triumph of the whole, of the collective sense of the game of a team that knew how to reinvent itself when the fairy of history changed its face in the form of a witch. There are five days left but we can already start to say that we experienced all this in the year of silver or lead.
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