Torneo Aste Negusia was contested at Bizkaia Fronton (Bilbo (Bilbao))on August 22-25, 27, 2016.
Asegarce tournament page
Match stories for all matches (21iguales.com)
This tournament was a hard fought battle of attrition. The average number of balls in play for the entire tournament was 586. Berasaluze II, playing as a substitute, participated in his 1000th professional match. For the third time in August and fifth time this summer, Oliazola II made the finals of a tournament. He has won 2 and lost 3.
August 22-23
Quarter-final Tourneo
Urrutikoetxea-Larunbe defeated Bengoetxea VI-Berioz 22-16
Altuna III-Rezusta defeated Irribarria-Merino II 22-16
Note: Source of all full match and highlights videos, unless otherwise stated, is EITB.
Match highlights
August 24-25
Semi-final Tourneo
Elezkano II-Zabaleta defeated Berasaluze II (substituting for the injured Urrutikoetxea)-Larunbe 22-17
Match highlights
Oliazola II-Untoria defeated Altuna III-Rezusta 22-18
Full match video (match begins at 1 hour, 17, minutes, 11 seconds on the recording
August 27
Final
Elezkano II-Zabaleta defeated Oliazola II-Untoria 22-15
Final point
Full match video (Source: fronton.tv) (scroll to "Tourneo Asta Nagusia--Bilbao--27/08/2016). Note that eventually the match will move to sub-pages of this site. They can always be found by title or date.
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