Skip Hire and Junior Basketball
Right, where were we? Ah yes, on Friday I blogged about TopSkips skip hire sponsored Withington Warriors. The junior basketball team had secured the first of four desperately needed victories. Only by winning all four could they have any hope of making the Winter Play-Offs. Here’s how game two went; report by Team Coach, James Quinn:
16th Jan: Belle Vue Blazers
“Sometimes in sport – as in life, it is important to lay a few ghosts to rest. Back in November, in the Warriors only previous encounter with the Blazers, Warriors had come off at at half time with a twenty point lead and the game well and truly in the bag. Or so we thought.
In the best comeback I have seen in six years of coaching at the Amaechi Centre, Belle Vue caught us, passed us and held on for a fairly astonishing win.
We were gutted, shell-shocked and disappointed at throwing away an apparently unassailable lead. However, there are days when you have to give credit where it’s due and that day; Coach Kalu Redford and his team were pretty awesome in the second half.
But that was November, now it was January and defeat for either side meant no play-off place. Things didn’t start well with late news that Warriors’ ‘veteran’ and leading scorer, Andrew Gill was unfit to play came as very unwelcome news.
However, as if galvanized by Andrew’s absence, Warriors began strongly, got into a lead and never lost their grip. A real team effort ensured there was never any complacency this time and the Warriors ended up with a comfortable win. Two games to go and the play-offs were looking a little less distant than they had done at Christmas.”
Final Score – Belle Vue Blazers 31 – Warriors 39
Two down, two to go and great to see the Warriors in top form. Tune in tomorrow afternoon for a full report of match 3… another must win.
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