Date: Saturday, 11th November 2017
Venue: Ledbury Leisure Centre
Competition: YBL U15 South
LEADONITES BASKETBALL 47 v 41 Redditch Raptors
(Q1: 22-10 / Q2: 8-10 / Q3: 10-8 / Q4: 7-13)
A much tighter affair in the older age game with a late
charge by Rockets putting the result in doubt before a long outlet pass found
Nicholls on a charge to the basket and a finger roll score in the final minute
of the match.
Before that the damage seemed to have been done in the
first with Chalkley and Spriggs leading the charge to a first period score of
22-10. The second saw the visitors claw back some of that deficit before
baskets from French, Hobson and Spriggs reasserted Leadonites to a 30-20
half-time lead.
Running their 5-out motion offence to Coach Robb’s
instructions saw buckets from Spriggs and Chalkley push the lead up to 12
points at 40-28 going into the final period.
Poor shooting at one end and lack-lustre boxing out at
the other allowed Redditch to reduce arrears to just 3 points with 5-minutes remaining.
Two converted free-throws by Chalkley kept Leadonites noses above water but
back came Redditch again with their own score. Emotions flared and referee intervention
was required to calm tempers then Calvo-Whitelegg pushed the lead back up to
four points with less than two minutes remaining. Each side scored a single free-throw
before the tension busting finale from Nicholls.
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