The four heads of serial ink in their different quarter -final crosses. One of them, left eliminated. It is difficult to find a better decort of the Queen’s Cup, a competition with four very equal games. In those on Friday, the perfumeries avenue eliminated the Movistar Students thanks to a final basket of the very young Iyana Martín (66-64). This Saturday (17.00, Teledeporte) will face Casademont Zaragoza in the second semifinal, which defeated 10,000 spectators at Spar Gran Canaria (56-42). Before the other tie between the Spar Girona and the Hozona Global Jairis (14.30, Teledeporte) will be played.
Anna Montañana was an wing with a base soul. A big player who liked to create. Now, as a coach, she has two very different game directors behind the wheel. One, Silvia Domínguez, is 38 years old and five cups of the queen in her pocket. The other, Iyana Martín, is 19 and the world at his feet. To the throw He doesn’t care about age. The two already important and the youngest, who dares to call her promise after this Friday, wants her in command of her team. A position that contrasts, for example, with the Valencia Basket policy, which preferred to give Awa Fam, 18 -year -old great pivot, Linink Gernika.
The mountain clinical eye to detect the talent that, in reality, everyone knows, served to not doubt Iyana Martín in critical moments. Neither when the Movistar Students put nine points ahead in the first half (19-28), nor when it extended its advantage to 10 in the second part (36.-46). The Madrid team was then enough to control the rebound and have a good ball circulation in attack to dominate the duel.
Until Montañana got fed up, asked for a dead time and, at the end of giving her instructions to the players, she put an anger face and demanded more aggressiveness. The game turned a turn. The perfumeries avenue hooked an 18-3 partial that led him to turn the scoreboard (54-49). Iyana flew on the court, the Salamanca team grew in defense and the entrance of Mariella Fasoula lubricated her attack.
They had the game on track until Juana Camilión (21 points), wounded pride, reacted and forced a draw in the absence of 6.8 seconds, plenty of time so that Iyana Martín, the girl without fear, a base with a wild instinct for basketball, scored the decisive basket that gave the final victory to her team (66-64).
His rival will be, to believe living a already seen Seeing each other again in the Cup, in a prince Felipe Pavilion of public and with the the great roja Stretch to celebrate a triumph, as two years ago, when champion was proclaimed. Carlos Cantero’s team achieved a final advantage (56-42) that does not reflect his enormous suffering, especially in a first half in which the cunning plan urged by César Aneas left the whole Maño in 19 points.
The Gran Canaria squeezed its few virtues: the direction of Melisa Gretter, the rebounding power of Nneka Ezeigbo (13 rebounds to rest and two more at the end) and, above all, an enormous capacity for sacrifice in defense, with a zonal defense that allowed her coach to use only seven players.
His resistance began to crack in the second half, when Evans took advantage of his body to open a crack in the Canarian defense that led to put ahead on the scoreboard and force the third lack of Nigeriana Ezeigbo. Then Stephanie Mawuli joined to finish off a game that for many minutes was very complicated. But this is the 2025 Cup.
