Inspired friends accelerate in front of GDESSA

In the second game of a double journey that started yesterday, with a match against Torres Novas, the CAB team faced, this time, the formation of GDESSA, a well-organized team, very strong in the defensive chapter and which is presented in the present edition of the Women's League with the clear ambition to reach the top places. The game was therefore a very demanding task for the Madeirans, who had to be on their best level if they wanted to win the meeting and preserve the invincibility they held in the entrance to the game. The match began best for the CAB, which won the first period for the result of 12-20. The good performance of friends was due to their effectiveness in the implementation of field launches (67% in the first ten minutes) and free throws (100%). To add to the great success in the releases, the CAB was dominant in the fight of the tables, ensuring, in the first half, the conquest of 16 jumps, against only half (8) of the house team. Ashley Bruner and Julie Forster were the most accomplished by the CAB, dominating the list of the best scorers at this stage of the meeting. In the second half, Joana Lopes, the base of the Friends, noted her third foul, a factor that forced Coach João Pedro to take her away momentarily from the match. As a result, the friends' attack dynamics changed, with the CAB making some losses of the ball, as the replaced base was playing a key role in the team's dynamics. The GDESSA took advantage of the slight disorientation of the Madeirans to try to win points on the marker, but the CAB knew how to suffer and resist, maintaining a distance from the opponents that allowed it to reach the interval to be won by At this stage of the meeting, the best markers of the CAB was Ashley Bruner (14) and Julie Forster (8), well accompanied by Leonor Nunes (5) and Carolina Escort (2). In the caveats, the CAB continued to dominate (21 gains against 14 GDESSA), as well as in the ball robberies (7 won against 5 locations). Even so, there was some concern because the Friends, in twenty minutes of play, had already committed 11 ball losses and performed the same number of fouls, a fact that had allowed GDESSA to write down, only in the second period, six free throws, that is, the total to which they were entitled at this stage of the match. In resuming the game, both teams missed a number of releases, preventing any changes to the scorer in the first three minutes of the third half. Joana Lopes, returned to the game, broke the impasse, writing down by the CAB. His example was followed by teammates, who applied even more intensely to defensive and offensive missions. On the opposite side, GDESSA continued to show some mismatch at the time of throwing to the basket, an atypical situation on that team, which usually shows great concentration and effectiveness. Overall in the third half, the CAB extended the punctual advantage, gaining the period by 12-22 and reaching the end of the third time in the lead by the result of 39-57. The quartet formed by Ashley, Julie, Leonor and Scortius had scored 49 points among them from the 57 noted by the Friends. In the fourth half, coach João Pedro chose to give Ashley Bruner some rest, who had not rested since the game began. The CAB managed well the temporary departure of the player who was being one of its main offensive references and kept the game controlled before an opponent who showed that she had not yet delivered the game. Even so, six minutes after the end of the meeting, the point difference between the formations was 21 points (64-43), numbers that proved the delivery of the Madeirans at the start, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the least inspired afternoon that they were having continentals. By the end of the meeting, with Joana Lopes making an excellent orchestration of CAB movements, playing and playing, the entire Madeiran team presented a good level of basketball. Maintaining, always, a great aggressiveness in the uprisings and defense, the attack of the Madeirans was naturally emerging. The end of the meeting came with the victory of the islanders by 55-76. In individual terms: Joana Lopes (2 points, 7 assists), Ashley Bruner (21 points, 12 points), Julie Forster (20 points, 11 points, 5 assists), Carolina Escorcio (7 points, 3 points), Marta Bravo (7 points), Carla Freitas (9 points, 3 assists) and Leonor Nunes (10 points, 3 points).