Two titles of champions Valencia Lliga for Dénia Basketball Club
This weekend the finals of the Valencian League were played in the municipal pavilion of Cocentaina. The balance of this appointment for the Dénia Básquet Club was remarkable. Out of four finalist teams, he got two of them to return to the Marina Alta with the title of champions. The men's zone senior team and the women's junior team.
The Dianenses juniors got the title after beating L'Alfás PN Serra Gelada in the final by 68 to 52. The team groguet dominated from the initial jump the game thanks to the intensity shown in defense. The whole of the Marina Baixa did not find solutions to attack the Dianense defense and little by little the advantages were extended. In the final stretch of the match the young players of Dénia Básquet knew how to control the acquired income to win the match with a difference of 16 points. In addition to winning the trophy at a collective level the player, Sofia Salazar, took the best player in the final.
The other joy for the Dianense club came thanks to the triumph of the zonal men's senior team that beat CB Pego in the final by 55 to 50. The kids led by Andrés Ponce had to give everything to defeat a rival who put them in trouble during some phases of the encounter. The dianenses started the clash very well but the pegolinos found a way to stop their rival's attack and this caused many doubts in the Dénia Básquet players. Ponce's team knew how to react very well in the last quarter to achieve a well-deserved and worked victory, against a worthy rival who fought until the last second to try to reverse the score. Dianense player, Ximo Siscar, took the trophy for the best player in the final.
Dénia Básquet could not bring the championship trophy was the special male senior team lost the final against Meridiano Foundation 57 to 71 by Lucentum. The dianenses yielded to a rival who beat them from the second quarter. Break alicantina reached with twelve-point advantage (38-26). In the next two quarters attempts to cut the lead of the guys who run Jesus Pantojo were useless and eventually the gap widened.
The same special fate was the special men's junior team that was defeated by L'Alfás del Pi PN Serra Gelada by 96 to 56. The physical difference between the two contestants marked the development of the match. Those of the Marina Baixa have built a team to be in the Spanish Championship, with scholarship players from different backgrounds, Senegal, Macedonia, United Kingdom. It is a team from another dimension and philosophy that is absolutely different from that of the Dianense team.
