El Dénia Básquet did not give Joventut Xabia any option in the regional duel played last Saturday in a Joan Fuster pavilion that once again filled its capacity to give all its support to the team.
Eduardo Clavero's men took control of the match from the beginning, imposing a very serious defense that made ball circulation difficult for their rivals, and dominated both zones, taking control of the rebounds during the forty minutes.
In this way, the team doubled the visitors on the scoreboard at the end of the first period (31-15), but above all they offered a very solid collective image and transmitted enormous confidence in their actions that suggested that they would continue going to more in the meeting.
In the next two periods the same tone was maintained, without the bench rotations causing the performance on the court to drop one bit with a remarkable game, the game reaching the final quarter completely decided (76-37).
With this result, Dénia Básquet SUMA confirms, with two days left until the conclusion of the Regular League, that it will be seventh in group B of the 1st National Division.
In this way, they will face the second place in group A in the round of 16 tie for promotion to the EBA League, which will be CB Jovens Almassera or NB Torrent.
For its part, Joventut Xabia, who continues to have many injury problems, will try in the last two days to avoid the relegation tie between the eleventh and twelfth placed teams, in direct competition with Albubasket de Alicante.
The final result was DBC SUMA 95-56 Joventut Xàbia.
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The match began very evenly, with both teams very cold as they had little time to warm up due to the excessive duration of a previous match at the sports facility.
After that initial exchange of baskets, Carlos Vila's men made mistakes in the pass that meant giving up very simple counterattacks with which the Valencians managed to distance themselves on the scoreboard.
During the second quarter, the visitors tried to distract their rival with defensive changes, but it was of little use, as they not only maintained their advantage but increased it to twenty-one points by the time the game reached halftime.
There was still the entire second half left and, if Dénia Básquet wanted to have any chance of competing until the end, first of all it was necessary to greatly reduce the scoring capacity of the locals.
At times they managed to control the hosts in defense with moments of very good play that served to prevail in the second half, but the effort was not enough to hope to catch up with them, since they showed themselves to be a very solid team.
