CB Zonzamas CICAR Lanzarote started better, fulfilling the first five minutes of the match knowing how to exploit many of their options in attack. The red-and-blacks showed a great record in the rival court, with continuous fixations until finishing on the wing, the outside shot, in addition to the counterattack and knowing how to connect with the pivot, with Lucía Chacón achieving 5-3 in the first six minutes of the match.
It would be a rigorous exclusion, precisely suffered by the red-and-black pivot, which gave the visitors the opportunity to enter the match and turn the score around (6-5). Thus began a fight with a constant exchange of blows between the two sides, which left a very difficult first half for the locals. Despite not being comfortable, the batateras managed, with the help of Mary Sánchez, to find the tie again so that, shortly after, Brenda Roger and Ana Martín in goal, returned the local control over the electronic scoreboard 8-7.
The two teams started with a 5:1 in their area, but it was the visitors who were much more solid, which allowed them to maintain their options throughout the first half and put the red-and-blacks in trouble.
The best moments in defensive work of CB Zonzamas, with great ball recoveries included, were not taken advantage of in attack, with the batateras being unable to have the necessary calm to make the most opportune decision. Therefore, the widest lead would be maintained with the three goals achieved by the locals with eight minutes remaining until halftime (15-12).
But it was just then when Balonmano Salud Tenerife achieved a partial score of 3 to 0 to tie the score on the electronic scoreboard. A tie that would be maintained after several minutes of inaccuracies and remarkable interventions by the two goalkeepers to close the first thirty minutes with a 16-16 draw.
The match resumed with strong defenses in the two areas, leaving the first three minutes of the new time without goals. But it was in the 28th minute when the Tenerife coach was forced to call a timeout since, with Luana Albán's goal, CB Zonzamas CICAR Lanzarote achieved a five-goal advantage after taking advantage of several possessions in numerical superiority (21-16).
Jana Pinilla joined the great performance in attack. One of the goals of the red-and-black pivot served to extend the lead in favor of the locals to nine goals (26-17). And Patro Barambio's team completely nullified the rival attack, with a Salud Tenerife that took ten minutes to find the rival net in the second half, not to find the red-and-black net again with just under fifteen minutes of the match remaining, when they had already suffered a partial score of 10 to 2 (26-18).
Little more to tell in a match that, this time, the batateras knew how to sentence in time. There were moments of blocking in attack and good chicharreros counterattacks with which the locals managed to make up the score, since Salud Tenerife did not stop running at any time, although a mature CB Zonzamas CICAR Lanzarote knew how to withstand the onslaught until the final result of 34-27.
CB Zonzamas CICAR Lanzarote climbs one more step in the league standings, now occupying the fifth place in the table with thirteen points after completing their fifth consecutive match at home achieving victory. This will serve to face the second round in the best way with the next match scheduled for next Saturday, January 21, also in the municipal hall of San Bartolomé, against Handbol Sant Quirze.
Technical sheet
CB ZONZAMAS CICAR LANZAROTE (34) Ana Martín, Gleinys Reyes (8), Ingrid Roger (2), Danae Miranda (2), Brenda Roger (9), Mary Sánchez (3), Lucía Chacón (5) -starting seven-, María de León, Marta Cuenca (1), Jana Pinilla (1), Susi Sánchez, Luana Albán (3) and Sandra Parada.
HANDBALL SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE (27): Viktoriia Mykhailenko, Alexia Picas (4), Juceleyde Pereira (8), Hanna Yashchuk (1), Paula Martín (1), Rebeca López (2), Nhetely Minissale (4) -starting seven-, Sol Ceballos, Myloslava Borodan (2), Laura Rodríguez (1), Ciris García (1), Aina Fernández (1), Yulia Moisieieva, María Martín, Melania Cabrera (2).
Referees: Óscar Gutierrez and Jorge Monjo. They excluded the locals Ingrid Roger, Gleinys Reyes, Lucía Chacón and Luana Albán; and the visitors Ciris García, Aina Fernández, Juceleyde Pereira (2) and Melania Cabrera.
Partial scores every five minutes: 4-1, 5-6, 10-9, 13-11, 15-15, 16-16 (halftime), 19-16, 22-16, 26-17, 28-20, 30-23, 34-27.