Friends win third victory in four contested journeys

The men's team of CAB/Quality Business was the Bridge-of-Sor face the Electric, a training that debuts in the Professional League. The greater experience of Madeirans gave them special responsibilities in the game domain, but on the other hand, Friends had a very well organized team that would not facilitate their task. The game began slightly better for CAB/Quality Business, which won the first period by the result of 23-25. At this stage of the meeting, the highlight in the Madeirans went to Fábio Lima, author of 12 points, which continued to confirm the good moment so that meeting in Madeira, as well as Duke Forbes, who also contributed 7 more points. On the other hand, the Electric showed its collective strength and determination not to let the CAB/Quality Business shoot the marker. The wealth of the game of the locals was very based on the outside game, with emphasis on Cardoso, Pinto and Melnuchuk, authors of four triples. In the second half, the CAB/Quality Business entered with the intention of taking more firmly control of the pace of the game and increasing the punctual distance from the home team. With two minutes of play, the Friends led by 23-28, the result of a very active presence of Captain Jorge Coelho, both in the chapter of the caveats and in the aspect of scoring points. Those in the house did not find themselves outnumbered and tried to respond to the start of the CAB/Quality Business, however, Diogo Ventura and Bruno Cavalcante again placed the marker in 31-34, forcing the Electric Bank to ask for a time discount when they had already elapsed 5 minutes of the second half. The time discount had a beneficial effect on the locations and the opposite impact on the Madeiran team. Shortly after the time stop, the Electrico retook on the external release, with emphasis on Cardoso and Camacho, his main weapons at this stage of the game. The CAB/Quality Business seemed to sink into the marker, demonstrating inability to implement the game plan that had worked so far. No surprise, when three minutes before the break, the tram was superior by 44-36. Until the break, the venues dominated the meeting, but at the last minute of the game, good interventions by Diogo Ventura, Fábio Lima and Orlan Jackman allowed the CAB/Quality Business to recover some of the lost stability and to collect the locker rooms in front by the minimum advantage (44-45). At this stage of the meeting, Fábio Lima (13) and Diogo Ventura (8) were the best markers in Madeirans. In the Electric, Camacho (12) and Cardoso (11) were the most unconformed. In the third half, the balance was once again the dominant tone of the encounter, with no team allowing the other to distance themselves from the marker, yet the CAB/Quality Business maintained a slight upward on the venues, which is why it won the game by 52-54 when the third half was still in half. Until the end of the period, the superiority of the Friends remained, but never assumed great contours. Judging from the result with which the period ended (56-57) it was clear that the game would be played until the end and with the uncertain winner. In the final period, the game was back to bat-to-tack. To the baskets of the CAB/Quality Business, the Electric responded with its points, so the marker remained in an unnerving balance, with the game being able to hang anywhere. However, six minutes to play, consecutive baskets of Fábio Lima, Jorge Coelho, Anthony Hill and José Correio put the result in 63-70, one of the most significant advantages recorded in almost the entire game. He wondered if it was from this that the house would break before the ascendant of the Friends. The discount of time requested immediately by the house aimed at cutting the ancestry of Madeirans, but the claim did not have this effect. On the contrary, two more baskets from Hill and Ventura increased the advantage of the CAB/Quality Business to 63-74 when only four minutes left in the meeting. There followed another time-out and again to the Electric Bank, which was already beginning to see the victory fleeing to the sides of Madeira, given the accumulated punctual difference, a just reward for the persistence of visitors. Safe in the meritoriously conquered leadership, the CAB/Quality Business did not disarm and did a very clever management of the meeting. Gradually, the superiority of the Friends was gaining greater expression, also benefiting from the fact that, thanks to the defense of the Madeirans, the rates of realization of the places began to decrease, especially when compared to what had happened until that moment of the meeting. All in all, the CAB/Quality Business won the game by 69-81, winning its third win when four LPB journeys are over. In individual terms. Bruno Cavalcante (2), Diogo Ventura (10), Orlan Jackman (6), Jorge Coelho (11), Duke Forbes (9), Anthony Hill (14), Fábio Lima (26), Jose Correia (3).