An unstoppable cultural advances with authority

The qualifiers are finished with this cultural. Luis Castillo’s team, as if that were not enough with a place in the playoffs in its first season in second Feb, has made it clear that it will not settle for that. He has already overcome his first obstacle, but, beyond doing so, it is worth highlighting the way he has done so.

The Leonese arrived at the second leg with a more than valuable rent of twenty points (70-90). The pass was practically on track, but, the rojiblanco team, far from going out to endure the onslaught visitors, took the reins of the game from the first minute to end up winning the game with a wide rent (107-90).

Luis Castillo’s team will face Fibwi Palma in the second round, which managed to overcome Caja 87 despite the distance of Sevillians from 29 points of the first leg. Thus, the first game will be played at the Palace next weekend and, later, the Leon will visit the island.

Cultural

Fàbrega (7), Greley (17), Llamas (5), Okafor (11), Berthold (5) – Five initial – abbot (2), Isern (17), Bultó (7), Vázquez (12), Stain (12), Kellier (7) and Álvaro González (4)

106

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90

Benicarlon

Lafuente (17), Obajo (13), Bookaia (5), Ruekga (17), Palazuelos (7) – five Early – Suárez (15), Lopez (11), haro (5), Salbat, Sabaté, Llotal

• Partial 30-16, 61-38 -DESCANSO-; 82-62, 106-90 -final-.

• Referees García Santos and Berbeira Oria. Before the injury of one of the collegiate, Iván Valbuena was arbitrated.

• Incidents Municipal Sports Palace of León. 3.009 spectators. return of the first round of the promotion playoff to First Feb.

Still without Fares Ochi, although with Pau Ierner fully recovered after participating a few minutes in the first leg, the Cultural jumped to the palace with the idea of ​​defending its rent of twenty points through the defensive solidity that characterized the Leon in the first leg.

Luis Castillo’s initial quintet was the same one that jumped to the track in Benicarló and that Carburó to begin to cement the vital triumph achieved there. when something works, you better not touch it. On the contrary, obviously, in the Valencians, who made start variations in search of finding the cultural seams.

The Cultural goes out to win

The defenses began well positioned in both sets, preventing offensive circulations. Benicarló achieved his first three-goals with a triple of Lafuente that immediately replied Rodri Llamas (5-5).

Given the little efficacy of Fàbrega in the first minutes, Luis Castillo chose to enter Pau Iern in the game direction and the base premiered with a launch to put the Leonese in advantage (11-9). Based on the leadership of the rebound, the cultural wanted to win the game, regardless of the outfit.

And, to demonstrate that what happened in Benicarló was not a coincidence, Greley and Bultó refined from the perimeter to the rent to the ten points (22-12). He requested a dead time Santi Cerdán in search of curbing the initial storm, but Pau Isern appeared to add five consecutive goals and open even more gap (27-14). At the end of the first quarter, the superiority was very remarkable.

An unstoppable team

Despite the obvious domain, the defense of the cultural was leaving spaces as a result of the good circulation of Benicarló, but the visitors were very erratic in the shot, without getting their options to approach (34-22). Such was so, at rest, the Valencian team had only managed to mark two triples of the sixteen launched.

Meanwhile, those of Luis Castillo, without any pressure and feeling at a much higher level, launched again and again with an abysmal success, above seventy percent. Any hint of comeback by the Valencians had exhausted before the break, because at the distance of twenty points of the first leg we had to add an even greater income (51-28).

With Kyle Gareley making the difficult thing easy -15 points in the first half- and an omnipresent Rodri Llamas, the cultural one went to rest with everything already decored (61-38), although before the game had to stop the game for the injury of one of the two collegiate.

The second half began late due to the injury of the referee who forced a replacement. The Benicarló took advantage of the break to redo and try, at least, to show a face improvement, as he did in the instants after the resumption.

The Valencians rose in rhythm in attack and increased the success to a basket, becoming fifteen points (68-53). So far they would cut the rent, before Isern and Vázquez return the margin to the twenty points.

Time to enjoy

In the same way that happened in Benicarló, although now with everything much more sentenced, which means that it can be understood, the cultural one lived a stretch of greater inaccuracy and some precipitation, although that also did not mean any variation in the luminous at the end of the third quarter (82-62).

Luis Castillo, also aware that everything was already decided, gave the opportunity to Álvaro Fernández to add minutes in a promotion phase. And the young man, far from intimidating before a duel of this level, also joined the list of scorers.

Finally, exceeding one hundred points and with the score of the twelve players convened by Luis Castillo, the cultural one took a new feast in the palace to continue giving arguments to the fans when dreaming of the ascent.