In a season that will be special because the club will be 100 years old on February 13, 2019, Gimnasia y Esgrima of Comodoro Rivadavia will receive tonight to Peñarol from Mar del Plata for the start of the Super 20 Tournament of the National League of Basketball. The match, which will be played from 9:30 p.m. in the Founding Members, corresponds to group D of the contest which has two prizes for the next edition of the South American League. The referees of the meeting will be Oscar Britez, Pedro Hoyo and Raúl Lorenzo.
The team, led by Martín Villagrán technically, arrives at this first meeting with more than a month of preseason with the physical preparation of Nicolás Raimondo, who joined the squad instead of Claudio Pessolano. He also joined the staff led by Villagrán, Gonzalo Pérez who works with Eduardo Opezzo as one of the technical assistants and who will also be the coach of the "mens sana" team in the Development League.
In matters of friendlies, Gimnasia only played one match: it was September 9 in Puerto Deseado against Hispano Americano de Río Gallegos who he defeated by 88 to 78 in a match where Villagrán had only eight players, since one was injured, while that the other three were playing with their national teams for the qualifiers for the 2019 China World Cup.
That is to say that that day, the "Green" did not have Juan Manuel Rivero available who recovers from a micro-run, while the Venezuelan bodyguard Dwight Lewis, the Dominican pivot Eloy Vargas and the chaqueño wing Franco Giorgetti were not with the squad. The three joined in the week and just then Villagrán was able to work with his entire squad, something that had not happened since the start of the preseason.
For this start of the Super 20, new players joined, with the illusion of repeating the great campaign of last season or improve what was done by the previous squad.
In that way, the base Lucas Pérez, the forward Sebastián Vega, the Venezuelan escort Dwigth Lewis, the American pivot wing Jaqhawn Walters, were incorporated, while the previous process is captain Diego Romero, the base Carlos Manuel Buendía, the pivotal wing Franco Giorgetti, the guard Juan Manuel Rivero -now will be preserved-, the Cuban forward Yoanki Mensia, the pivot Eloy Vargas and the juveniles Matías Sosa and Leandro Fogel.
Enfrente will be Peñarol de Mar del Plata, who was the same opponent with which he started the first edition of the Super 20, and on that occasion, it was triumph of the cast of Leonardo Gutierrez who won the last move 83 to 82, thanks to a double of the base Nicolás Gianella.
The "Milrayitas" just a week ago he was able to work with the entire squad since it was necessary to join the base Nicolás Gianella, who recovered from a discomfort in addition to one of his foreigners.
Peñarol has on his squad the following players: Gianella, Joaquín Valinotti, Juan Ignacio Marcos, Bruno Barovero, Tomás Monacchi, Lucas Gorosterrazú, Lucas Arn, Juan Martín Fernández, Du'Vaughn Maxwell, Nicolás Lauría, Nicolás Franco, Damián Tintorelli, Alejandro Alloatti, Mateo del Hoyo, Ignacio Bednarek and Joaquín Cabrera.
After the game against Peñarol, Gymnastics will return to work and will think about his next commitment: as local this time against Weber Bahia Basket.
DISPUTE MODE
The Super 20 Tournament will be played from September to November, with a first phase consisting of four groups of five teams each. In each group, round-trip matches will be played; each team, then, will complete 8 games.
The best four of each zone (16 in total) will advance to the playoffs and with only four teams left, they will play a final homer in a bidding venue, as is the case with the Liga de las Américas. The finalists will win the ticket to the South American League, second continental tournament in importance.
In the first edition, the champion of the contest was San Martín de Corrientes who won in the final at the Institute of Córdoba. The third place went to San Lorenzo who won Gimnasia de Comodoro Rivadavia.
> Groups
Group A: Communications (Corrientes), Estudiantes (Concordia), La Unión (Formosa), Regatas (Corrientes) and San Martín (Corrientes).
Group B: Athens, Institute (Córdoba), Libertad (Sunchales), Olímpico (La Banda) and Quimsa (Santiago del Estero).
Group C: Boca Juniors, Ferro Carril Oeste, Hispano Americano (Río Gallegos), Sanitary Works and San Lorenzo.
Group D: Argentine (Junín), Gymnastics and Fencing (Comodoro Rivadavia), Weber Bahía Basket, Peñarol (Mar del Plata) and Quilmes (Mar del Plata).
The team, led by Martín Villagrán technically, arrives at this first meeting with more than a month of preseason with the physical preparation of Nicolás Raimondo, who joined the squad instead of Claudio Pessolano. He also joined the staff led by Villagrán, Gonzalo Pérez who works with Eduardo Opezzo as one of the technical assistants and who will also be the coach of the "mens sana" team in the Development League.
In matters of friendlies, Gimnasia only played one match: it was September 9 in Puerto Deseado against Hispano Americano de Río Gallegos who he defeated by 88 to 78 in a match where Villagrán had only eight players, since one was injured, while that the other three were playing with their national teams for the qualifiers for the 2019 China World Cup.
That is to say that that day, the "Green" did not have Juan Manuel Rivero available who recovers from a micro-run, while the Venezuelan bodyguard Dwight Lewis, the Dominican pivot Eloy Vargas and the chaqueño wing Franco Giorgetti were not with the squad. The three joined in the week and just then Villagrán was able to work with his entire squad, something that had not happened since the start of the preseason.
For this start of the Super 20, new players joined, with the illusion of repeating the great campaign of last season or improve what was done by the previous squad.
In that way, the base Lucas Pérez, the forward Sebastián Vega, the Venezuelan escort Dwigth Lewis, the American pivot wing Jaqhawn Walters, were incorporated, while the previous process is captain Diego Romero, the base Carlos Manuel Buendía, the pivotal wing Franco Giorgetti, the guard Juan Manuel Rivero -now will be preserved-, the Cuban forward Yoanki Mensia, the pivot Eloy Vargas and the juveniles Matías Sosa and Leandro Fogel.
Enfrente will be Peñarol de Mar del Plata, who was the same opponent with which he started the first edition of the Super 20, and on that occasion, it was triumph of the cast of Leonardo Gutierrez who won the last move 83 to 82, thanks to a double of the base Nicolás Gianella.
The "Milrayitas" just a week ago he was able to work with the entire squad since it was necessary to join the base Nicolás Gianella, who recovered from a discomfort in addition to one of his foreigners.
Peñarol has on his squad the following players: Gianella, Joaquín Valinotti, Juan Ignacio Marcos, Bruno Barovero, Tomás Monacchi, Lucas Gorosterrazú, Lucas Arn, Juan Martín Fernández, Du'Vaughn Maxwell, Nicolás Lauría, Nicolás Franco, Damián Tintorelli, Alejandro Alloatti, Mateo del Hoyo, Ignacio Bednarek and Joaquín Cabrera.
After the game against Peñarol, Gymnastics will return to work and will think about his next commitment: as local this time against Weber Bahia Basket.
DISPUTE MODE
The Super 20 Tournament will be played from September to November, with a first phase consisting of four groups of five teams each. In each group, round-trip matches will be played; each team, then, will complete 8 games.
The best four of each zone (16 in total) will advance to the playoffs and with only four teams left, they will play a final homer in a bidding venue, as is the case with the Liga de las Américas. The finalists will win the ticket to the South American League, second continental tournament in importance.
In the first edition, the champion of the contest was San Martín de Corrientes who won in the final at the Institute of Córdoba. The third place went to San Lorenzo who won Gimnasia de Comodoro Rivadavia.
> Groups
Group A: Communications (Corrientes), Estudiantes (Concordia), La Unión (Formosa), Regatas (Corrientes) and San Martín (Corrientes).
Group B: Athens, Institute (Córdoba), Libertad (Sunchales), Olímpico (La Banda) and Quimsa (Santiago del Estero).
Group C: Boca Juniors, Ferro Carril Oeste, Hispano Americano (Río Gallegos), Sanitary Works and San Lorenzo.
Group D: Argentine (Junín), Gymnastics and Fencing (Comodoro Rivadavia), Weber Bahía Basket, Peñarol (Mar del Plata) and Quilmes (Mar del Plata).
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