Final Eight Coppa Italia: Venice reaches Milan in semifinals, Pistoia beaten
Final Eight Coppa Italia: Venice reaches Milan in semifinals, Pistoia beaten
At the Inalpi Arena in Turin, the second quarterfinal of the Final Eight of the Italian Cup was won by Umana Reyer Venezia, which beat 86-71 Estra Pistoia and will now challenge in the semifinals the Italian champions of Olimpia Milano.
It is the Tuscans who start better in the first quarter, but in the last minutes the Laguna players overtake them with an 8-0 partial: 19-16. Point to point the second quarter and at the’long halftime è still Reyer to be ahead by a narrow margin, 36-34.
In the third quarter Venice gradually stretched and got ahead 61-50 to the last ten minutes, in which it always managed to keep its opponents at arm’s length.
For Neven Spahija’s team 23 points and 8 rebounds by Rayjon Tucker and 13 points and 13 rebounds by Mfiondu Kabengele, for Nicola Brienza’s team 20 points and 7 rebounds by Charlie Edward Moore.
