Basketball, Serie A postponement: Varese of Roijakkers also wins in Naples 82-74. Sacripanti exonerated

The ninth defeat in the last ten games played cost the bench to Pino Sacripanti, exonerated by the president Grassi after the competition from the GeVi, and officially enrolled Naples in the fight for salvation.

Naples-Varese 74-82

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Al palabarbuto wins with merit Varese, who slips the seventh victory in the last 8 games and reaches the playoff area. Mild defenses, flare-ups and if for the blues practically only Parks and McDuffie score (15 overall out of 22 in the 1st quarter), Varese at 10 ‘has already sent 8 players on the scoresheet, with Caruso unpublished top scorer from the bench. However, the game remains in substantial balance until the 13th minute, then the guests score 10-0 with Woldetensae and Beane and fly on +12 (25-37) of the 15 ‘. Napoli is released with Uglietti but then suffers again and 3’45 from the interval, with the Openjobmetis at +14 (27-41), coach Sacripanti is forced to call time out in the silence of a “frozen” palabarbuto. The reaction is entrusted to Rich and Vitali, but in defense the GeVi holds nothing and in the middle of the match Varese is +14 at 49-35. At the second half Napoli has another face, and above all another Rich: the American scores 6 points for the 45-52 of the 24 ‘and this time it is Roijakkers who stops the game. The inertia, however, remains in the hands of GeVi who on 27 ‘reaches -3 (51-54) before being pushed back by the triples of Keene and a surgical Woldetensae (2 in a row for the 52-63 of the 30’). It is Sorokas in the 33rd minute who renews the maximum host advantage at 56-72, it seems closed and instead Naples falls once again up to -6 (72-78) at 1’50. It is too late, in the final frantic Varese holds and closes at 74-82.

Naples Rich 21, Parks 18, McDuffie 15.
Varese Woldetensae 19, De Nicolao 14, Keene 11