Astralpool CN Sabadell won its twentieth league title by beating Assolim CN Mataró 10-6 in the third and final game of the final of the Women’s Division of Honor
Astralpool CN Sabadell won its twentieth league title by beating Assolim CN Mataró 10-6 in the third and final game of the final of the Women’s Division of Honorwhich was decided with a 4-0 run favorable to the locals in the last 10 minutes.
The players of david palm they closed the season with the triplet of the Champions League, League and Copa de la Reina with Mataró as runner-up in all competitions.
The final began on Tuesday with the victory of Sabadell (10-8), followed on Thursday with the victory of Mataró (11-10) and ended with the new victory from Valles in the final duel.
The stands of the small pool at Can Llong were filled to the brim to see the last dance of the season between Sabadell and Mataró.
The fifth final and the tenth match in the women’s water polo classic began with mutual respect and success from goalkeepers Laura Ester and María Elena Sánchez.
A goal from Sabrina van der Sloot after assistance from Judith Forca -the main protagonists of the final- put the locals ahead at the start in which Laura Ester saved a penalty from Anni Espar, who on Thursday had scored the three against her teammate.
Mataró turned the match around thanks to two individual actions by the Italian Silvia Avegno and Espar to reach the end of the first quarter with an advantage (1-2), the only one in the entire match.
Sabadell got into tune in the second quarter with three goals in three minutes and Judith Forca took center stage, two of them with her golden left foot, and another from Paula Leiton, taking advantage of a rebound from the post to make it 4-2,
Mataró’s goalscorers -Rita Keszthelyi-Nagy and Simone van der Kraats- came to the rescue with two goals that tied the final at 4. Three seconds before the break, the Dutchman from Sabadell van der Sloot responded to make it 5-4.
The protests of the two technicians David Palma and Dani Ballart to the referees were constant in the particular battle that was lived out of the water.
The equality continued in the water for a large part of the third quarter, with two draws at 5 and 6. Sabadell broke the final in the last two minutes of the third quarter with three goals from Van der Sloot, Maica García and Judith Forca in the last second to place the 9-6.
A long attack by Sabadell with three saves by Sánchez preceded Forca’s fourth goal to make it 10-6 that sealed the league title.
Between her and van der Sloot they scored eight goals of the ten for the locals with a separate mention for Laura Ester, who kept a clean sheet in the last ten minutes.
Data sheet:
10 – Astralpool CN Sabadell: Ester (Carrasco); Mati Ortiz (-) Leiton (1), Van der Sloot (4), Casado (-), Steffens (-), Ruiz (-), García (1), Forca (4), Bea Ortiz (-), Pérez ( -), Gonzalez (-).
6 – Assolim CN Mataró: Sanchez (Carmona); Morell (-), Van der Kraats (1) Gual (), Sevenich (-), Keszthelyi-Nagy (2) Cambray (-), Nogué (1), Avegno (1), Bertran (-), Espar (1) , Claveria (-)
referees: Buch and Gomez. They eliminated Keszthelyi-Nagy.
partial: 1-2, 4-2, 4-2, 1-0.
incidents: Third and last game of the final of the Women’s Division of Honor played in the Can Llong swimming pool of CN Sabadell.
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