The Serie A3 Credem Banca championship ended for ErmGroup San Giustino with a salvation acquired well in advance in the White group and this is the substantial datum that counts, since for the blue-and-white team it was the first year of militancy in the new category. Indeed, up until the end, the dream of the play-offs was also cultivated, which would have given even greater meaning to the already positive season. The second goal vanished right in the last match in Pavia against Moyashi Garlasco, without, however, reducing the merits of a group that had abundantly done its part. For coach Marco Bartolini, interviewed of the week, it’s already time for final balances. Is there a bit of bitterness left for qualifying for the play-offs just on the wire? “Let’s say “no” – replies Bartolini – if we consider that even a well-equipped team like Da Rold Logistics Belluno has remained out, although surprising results have occurred in the last few days, in the sense that those who had the right motivations prevailed on who was the favorite on paper, otherwise some of our opponents could have remained with 40 points or would have scored 41 like us, but would have found themselves at a disadvantage against us in terms of the number of matches won. At the same time we met Stadium Mirandola and Moyashi Garlasco in a period of form, nor can we regret the point lost at home against Mirandola, because with this ranking it would not have helped anyway, but I am equally very happy with what the team: we got to the end a bit squeezed and therefore we didn’t give what was in our potential”. The final balance is 41 points, 20 won in the first leg and 21 in the return leg, with 8 wins and 5 knockouts at the sports hall and with the two numbers reversed on the way away from home for a total of 13 wins and the same number of losses (one win and three surrenders in the fifth set), but is ninth place to be considered “ungenerous”, after ErmGroup San Giustino occupied a better position for long stretches? “The equal distribution of points between the round trip was the signal of the substantial linearity of performance, then someone had considered the play-off qualification acquired when instead the mathematics still advised to wait. It was certainly a balanced and leveled group, so I enjoyed seeing the group grow in a mentally tiring championship and with the club that has always been by our side.
