The Cairns Taipans pulled away from the Gold Coast Blaze 83-66 for their third win from their last three matches at home on Wednesday night in Cairns.
The snakes withstood a scrappy Blaze outfit to hold a two point quarter time lead at 23-21. With James Harvey and Chris Goulding sitting on the bench due to foul trouble, Phill Jones led a surge that saw the Taipans lead balloon to twelve points mid way through the second term. The teams traded buckets the rest of the way and Cairns led 47-36 at half time.
the sides mirrored one another for the rest of the match as the Gold Coast could not make any major runs at cutting the margin trialing by ten a three quarter and seeing the margin widen towards the end of the match.
New Blaze import Erron Maxey posted 16 points/8 rebounds before fouling out of the contest late in the match on his Australian debut. Julien "Skip" Mills proved to be Mr. Everything for Cairns by dropping in 14 points, grabbing 11 rebounds and dishing out 5 assists.
Jones was the leading scorer for the Taipans with 23 points in support of Mills' effort. Additional help came from Dusty Rychart 12 points/5 rebounds, Kerry Williams with 12 points and Richard Melzer with 7 points/9 rebounds.
Harvey led the way for the Gold Coast with 17 points with support from Adam Gibson who scored 15 points and Chris Goulding chipped in with 10 points along with Maxey's input.
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