Friends of courage and combat couldn't help but escape

The CAB Women's Team and Quinta dos Lombos met in Funchal in a match for the 17th Women's League. The pressure of the game was on the side of the Friends, who had to win the formation of Carcavelos to continue in the first place of the classifier. Lombos, recently reinforced with yet another American, also addressed the match with great aspirations and came to Madeira determined to win the local team, so the conditions for a competitive match were met. The game began best for the visiting team, which tried to immediately impose its pace of play on the CAB. However, the Madeirans reacted to the initial advance of Lombos and, with 5 minutes of play, led the scorer by 10-7. Then, in a penetration into the basket, Joana Lopes, the base of the CAB, contracted an injury to the left knee, which forced her definitive departure from the game. Without their main organizer and natural leader, the Friends resisted the greatest aggressiveness that the visitors demonstrated after the departure of the international CAB and ended the first period ahead by 15-11. In the second period, everything was different, as the CAB was much less aggressive than it had been in the first half, being one of the main proofs of this the fact that, at the interval, the Lumbos team led the score taken (22 gains against 17 of the CAB). In the loss of the ball, in the interval, the CAB was already at 13, which also indicated that the Madeira team was not being as careful as it should in the management of its attacks. With his merit and the Demerit of the Friends, Lombos won the second partial by 7-14 and reached the interval to lead by 22-25. The big question for the second half was whether the CAB would be able to rejoin the game with the defensive and offensive aggressiveness it had shown, especially in the first half, and that it was essential to win the game. In the third period, Lombos entered better, performing a partial of 0-5, which increased the point gap relative to the players of the house. The CAB showed courage, but it did not result in marked points, and as the minutes passed, the disarray of the sites and the effectiveness of the visitors increased the advantage of Lombos which, at the end of the third period, was 15 points (33-48). In the fourth period, the will of the friends was very large and, consequently, the CAB was superior to the Lumbos. In fact, the Madeirans gained the partial (11-10), but had to weigh on themselves the advantage that the continentals had threatened in the second and third periods. Several ball recoveries (14 performed throughout the game) did not arrive for the CAB to eliminate the damage, although it is more than fair to praise the combative posture that the formation of the house placed in the field, a real proof of its union and determination. At the end of the game, Lumbos won 44-58.