The action continued over the past weekend as the Breakers were brought crashing to reality with a Saturday night loss in Adelaide. The Perth Wildcats split their North Queensland double but in unexpected fashion with a Friday night win in Townsville and a Saturday night loss in Cairns. Friday nights other game saw the Blaze held off the Hawks on the Gold Coast.
Here are my match reports:
Blaze 84/Hawks 78
The Blaze made a furious fourth quarter comeback to overtake the Hawks in their Friday night encounter. Timely outside shots from Adam Gibson and Chris Goulding along with the hustle of Mike Vukona put the Breakers over the top in the torrid affair.
Michael Joiner, in what turned out to be his farewell outing, led the Blaze with 18 points, Ayinde Ubaka had 15 points/5 assists, James Harvey dropped in 14 points and Vukona added 10 points/13rebounds to his all in effort for the Blaze.
Twain McKee 23 points/9 rebounds/6 assists was again Mr. Everything for the Hawks while Glen Saville added 16 points/9 rebounds.
Wildcats 91/Crocs 89
A fierce final quarter fight back led by Kevin Lisch erased a four point Townsville lead as the Wilcats escaped with the narrow victory.
Lish scored 16 points for the night to lead a balanced Wildcat attack. Shawn Redhage 15 points/8 rebounds, Jesse Wagstaff 11 points, Martin Cattalini 11 points and Damian Martin 7 assists were other contributors to the cause for Perth.
Mike Cedar fired in 24 points to lead the Crocs with help from Corey Williams (17 points/5 assists/6 rebounds), Roland Roberts (13 points/8rebounds), and Cameron Toovey (10 points/7 rebounds).
I will finish the review of Round 2 tomorrow and have a preview of the Wednesday night match.
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