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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08 October 2009
28 September 2009
Taipans even their ledger with win over Sixers
The Cairns Taipans returned from their less than stellar performance in New Zealand to post a hard fought 86-75 win over Adelaide Saturday night. The game was the last of several exciting contests in the opening round of the '09-'10 NBL season.
The teams were neck and neck through the first half with Cairns going to the locker room up by two. The Sixers were in the middle of a third term hot streak when import John Gilchrist went down with a leg injury. Adelaide held a five point advantage at the time of the injury that was quickly pounced on by the Snakes. Gilchrist made a cameo appearance early in the fourth term and Adelaide surged to a one point lead before Julien "Skip" Mills, Phill Jones and Dusty Rychart combined to score 17 of the final 21 points for the Cairns crew allowing them to pull away for the win.
Cairns were well served with a hard nosed defensive effort on Adelaide star Adam Ballinger who was held to 7 points/7 rebounds.
Taipan leaders were Phill Jones (16 points), Gary Boodnikoff (16 points) Julien "Skip" Mills (16 points), Dusty Rychart (10 points/14 rebounds/6 assists) and Ian Crosswhite (12 points/5 assists). The 14 rebounds by Rychart put his NBL career total over 2000. Gichrist finished with totals of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists with support from Matthew Burston (11 points/15 rebounds) and Jacob Holmes (10 points).
In Round 2, Cairns will host Perth on Saturday night and Adelaide will host the New Zealand Breakers on the same night.
My first round predictions held true to form with only Perth keeping me from a perfect start. There will be more NBL stuff with this weeks round kicking off on Wednesday night.
The teams were neck and neck through the first half with Cairns going to the locker room up by two. The Sixers were in the middle of a third term hot streak when import John Gilchrist went down with a leg injury. Adelaide held a five point advantage at the time of the injury that was quickly pounced on by the Snakes. Gilchrist made a cameo appearance early in the fourth term and Adelaide surged to a one point lead before Julien "Skip" Mills, Phill Jones and Dusty Rychart combined to score 17 of the final 21 points for the Cairns crew allowing them to pull away for the win.
Cairns were well served with a hard nosed defensive effort on Adelaide star Adam Ballinger who was held to 7 points/7 rebounds.
Taipan leaders were Phill Jones (16 points), Gary Boodnikoff (16 points) Julien "Skip" Mills (16 points), Dusty Rychart (10 points/14 rebounds/6 assists) and Ian Crosswhite (12 points/5 assists). The 14 rebounds by Rychart put his NBL career total over 2000. Gichrist finished with totals of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists with support from Matthew Burston (11 points/15 rebounds) and Jacob Holmes (10 points).
In Round 2, Cairns will host Perth on Saturday night and Adelaide will host the New Zealand Breakers on the same night.
My first round predictions held true to form with only Perth keeping me from a perfect start. There will be more NBL stuff with this weeks round kicking off on Wednesday night.
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