Basketball festival in Ferrol: Baxi overcame Melilla with more materials for leadership (83-62)

The basketball festival was held on Saturday afternoon in Ferrol, a town whose past is closely linked to this sport and thanks to it leaveis also faced with promising future. Lin López’s players knew they had to beat Melilla maintain income with their most direct competitors, Recoletas Zamora, and they did not make a mistake in the mission and achieved comfortable win (83-62) on the day the club made sense tribute to the Canarian legend of the home team, Patri Cabrerawith the withdrawal of number 8.

The determination of Lin López’s team, who wanted to give the fans a day to remember, allowed the home team to leave with a six-point advantage at the end of the first quarter. Jessica Fequiere, who was the game’s top scorer, set the tone for a second act in which Melilla paid dearly for inaccuracies. The players of Baxia, giving the game speed, took advantage of that extreme and went to the break with a ten-point gap.

It was the third quarter, ended with a series of 20-7, in which the home team secured victory with two baskets from the last ring in a game in which there was no lack of quality details from players like Soriano or Kalin, which caused the enthusiasm of the fans.

Without losing sight of the past

And that is that, as the clash entered the final stretch, the atmosphere became increasingly festive in A Malata, showing that the flame of basketball is still alive in the city thanks to the block the team has become. Director: Lino Lopez.

Cries of “this is Ferrol” rang out from the stands and although in the last quarter the visiting team scraped a partial 23-25​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ So, with a devoted public, the former player with the most games played in the history of the club, Patri Cabrera, received a warm tribute, by retiring the number 8, which will always be hers, and placing a replica of his jersey at the back of the pavilion.

“This is my second home”the basketball player pointed out before pointing out that he next celebration to wait “two or three weeks” on the occasion of the rise of a Baxi with more and more material for leadership.

DATA SHEET

BAXI | 83

Mataix (8), Mungo (12), Marta Gómez (8), Kalin (5) and Fequiere (17) start; Allen (4), Boquete (8), Soriano (10), I. Gari (3) and N. Dimitrijević (8) also played.

MELILLA | 62

S. Preetzmann (15), Laura Fernández (11), Leticia Dias (7), Benet (4) and Torreblanca (13) starting; Stevanović (10), A. Jiménez, N. Ríos (2) and Mbomio also played.

ROOMS: 19-13, 21-17 (40-30); 20-7, 23-25 ​​(83-62)

REFEREE: Alejandro Pellitero and Sergio Eduardo González.

INCIDENTS: Malata Pavilion in front of about 1,300 spectators.