The Willetton Tigers will head into the NBL1 finals on a excessive and in type after three of their squad turned in a dominant efficiency within the WABL Championship males’s grand ultimate at Bendat Basketball Centre on the weekend.
The Tigers took the lads’s title 97-82 over Perth Redbacks on the again of giant returns from Thomas Gerovich (23 factors), Aiden Fitzgerald (22) and Josh Ibukunoluwa (21).
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In the ladies’s division is was the Perry Lakes Hawks who have been victorious over the Cockburn Cougars in a good 71-66 end result.
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Gerovich, Fitzgerald and Ibukunoluwa took management of the competition from the second quarter for the Willetton males as a good early tussle began to blow out.
Gerovich, a member of WA Metro’s under-18 title-winning staff two years in the past, was named MVP. The trio are anticipated to bolster a Tigers NBL1 West outfit which is able to face off with the Geraldton Buccaneers in a qualifying ultimate this Friday.
“All three of them averaged over 18 points per game for the season and they all scored over 20 points in this game, so they’ve been big for the team,” WABL league supervisor Hugh McAuliffe stated.
“They’re all NBL1 West bench players, Adam Nener who was coaching the team yesterday is also the NBL1 coach so they’re all in his rotation, they’ve all been big off the bench in NBL1 and they’ve been big for the Tigers champs men’s team too.
“This will be a big spark for them.”
It was the Redbacks’ second grand ultimate loss within the division in as many seasons.
The Hawks went back-to-back within the ladies’s championship division after an entertaining arm wrestle which got here right down to the ultimate minutes.
Millie McCarthy’s point-guard battle with Kinley Paterson was a spotlight of the sport, as Perry Lakes’ McCarthy completed with 14 factors to Paterson’s 12.
But it was Hawks ahead Danika Pisconeri who was most spectacular in a recreation which successfully got here right down to who higher managed the boards.
“It was a tight encounter all game, Hawks took the edge at the end with a couple of offensive rebounds,” McAuliffe stated.
“(Pisconeri) was the grit and grind of the team throughout the game – she didn’t score the most point but she was the grand final MVP.”
The WABL championship division deciders kick off an exciting run for basketball in WA, with the NBL1 West finals, NBL1 nationwide finals and the WABL junior division finals all to come back over the following two months.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
