Solid Begin Of Spain In The Second Round

SPAIN 64 - ITALY 79

Italy took Spain by surprise with a 7-0 run that was right what Evaristo Pérez girls to turn the engine on, making a 16-0 run with Anna Montañana scoring 6 and Amaya Valdemoro 5 in the spurt. Francesca Zara cut the bleeding with a lay up for the 19-6, with 3:59 remaining in the first

Spain was confortable, playng their game and making Italy struggle to score and in the boards.

Elisa Aguilar made it 24-11 by turning into basket a loose ball, giving Spain their biggest lead with 1:45 remaining. Then finally react Italy, scoring a 7-1 run, to end the quarter 18-25

Isa Sánchez started the second with a three making it 18-28. Both teams stepped up deffensevely, running out the shot clock in a number of times, but Spain kept executing better the offense

Italy got within 6 pts for two times, but Spain got into rhytm again, and with a 7-0 run regained double digits advantage, making Gianni Lambruschi call a timeout with 2:02 for the break and 28-41 behind

Things didn-t change after the timeout and Spain kept dominating the game, going into the halftime with their biggest lead after a three from Elisa Aguilar from the left corner of the Spanish offense 35-42

Elisa Aguilar and Isa Sánchez led Spain with 7 and 7 pts respectively. Raffaella Masciadri had 5 for Italy.

Spain came off the locker room with a 6-0 run, cut by Raffaella Masciadri from 6,25, 35-53, tu begin trading baskets and with a slower pace game where Spain wasn´nt worried by the Italians, but where they couldn´t pull away, goijng into the fourth 47-63

Kathrin Ress led Italy with 6 pts and Anna Montañana did it for Spain with 5.

5 straight points from Elisa Aguilar got Spain to the 20 pint margin, 52-72, after 3:06 in the quarter, with the national team dominating without problems the Italians, who didn´t seem to be able to make a comeback. In the last minutes a more relaxed Spain closed the score 64-79

For Spain Isa Sánchez had 11, Amaya Valdemoro 10, Anna Montañana 16, Luci Pascua 9 pts and 9 rebs, and Elisa Aguilar ad 17 pts and grabbed 5 rebounds

In Italy Kathrin Ress scored 13 pts, the same as Francesca Zara, who added 6 rebounds, and Raffaella Masciadri had 16 pts

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Post Game Interviews

Evaristo Perez

Laia Palau

Lucila Pascua