Bocce - The breeze surrenders to the African heat: scorching bowls and memorable challenges ignite the Brenta semi-finals - Sport - Varese News

African heat, therefore from the black continent, not comparable to the song “I Watussi” by Edoardo Vianello, to compress the expectations of the athletes for the finals that on Friday evening would conclude the preliminaries perfected previously on the Brenta fields. In truth, Brenta has always been characterised by an anomalous climate: the breeze that with wise constancy channels itself from the hills to envelop, as in a voluptuous protective sphere, the fields and the Boesio stream, is an indispensable component, for which it is often essential to equip oneself with appropriate "clothing" in order not to be caught unprepared in the face of unexpected environmental variations. Not this time, the completely still air ignores the customs, giving breaths of heat to the contenders, who, unaware of the climatic carelessness, fight with ferocity, with frenzy, intent on pursuing the only goal glimpsed from afar: victory.

So among the four couples that survived the ruthless selections, there remains a local team, that of Castiglioni/Reggiori , who immediately set off on a dirt path, full of stones and not at all easy, so much so as to allow those two old foxes Bailini and Marchese to settle comfortably on the score of 9-2 which appears to be completely safe and does not seem to offer any hope of recovery. Only that Castiglioni decides to abandon the Mister Jeckill costume and transform himself into Mister Hide, the perversion of unpredictable approaches takes shape with continuity and Reggiori, goaded by the metamorphosis, adapts with equally notable interpretations of the bowling technique: to make a long story short the two reach the Ternatesi on nine all. The latter finally shake themselves and grab, on the fateful wire, the success, longed for, it is true, that instead seemed achievable only with a slight effort. In the other semi-final, a shocking, precise and implacable Oltolini chooses to place his two bowls side by side systematically just a few centimetres from the jack, forcing the inexorable Vanoli to perform an interminable series of shots in order to prevent the Casciaghesi from succumbing.

Unfortunately for Oltolini , Talarico , a brilliant second place last year in the individual event behind an unrivalled Zosi , sometimes forgets his usual precision in hitting, so the fate of Gaetano Donizetti in the opera “Il Duca d'Alba” comes true and the exponents of Casciago rise to the altar of the last contest.

The final sees an extraordinary challenge between Marchese and Vanoli who duel without holds barred on the symphonies of the flying bocciate: it is a spectacle within the spectacle to watch the bocce, learnedly approached to the jack, often moved away with millimetric precision by the soft and graceful flight of the boccia thrown by cruel hands. The Ternatesi are more precise overall, Valente also manages to approach with mastery, so the victory benignly descends to caress the blues of Ternate, perhaps making even more full of regrets the consideration of the local duo who had dreamed for a few moments of the final triumph. On Saturday, in the A series, the fourth name that will fight for the Italian title in Campobasso was revealed: it will be Kennedy Napoli to join the already qualified Caccialanza , Montegrillo and Vigasio , since the other possible alternative – Flaminio – found a way to come out defeated, within the home walls, by Boville .