Junior Men Lose Out By 3 iIn Tense Sure Shot Cup Battle

At Sport TCAT

Result: Warriors 57 City of Birmingham 60

 

Our Junior Men’s team just failed in their bid to progress to the 3rd Round of the National Sure Shot Cup tonight at Sport TCAT.

With Point Guard Ben Parry leading the way with a game high 23 points and Kendall Jones netting 20 in an excellent performance, our guys controlled the game for long periods against the visiting City Of Birmingham, who currently lie second in the Midlands Premier League Table.

We led by 5 at the half and were looking much the better team. However a bad run in the first 5 minutes of the second half allowed the visitors to pull back the deficit.

For the next 10 minutes there was literally nothing between the teams. Crucially the Birmingham boys then hit 8 points without reply in a two minute burst as we failed to convert a succession of chances. From that point on we were always playing catch up, and time sadly ran out.

Our guys will know that they could and should have won this game. As always the old adage “ free shots win or lose games” holds good. We hit just 5 from 16 from the line. This factor ultimately doomed us to defeat.

However the Club is very proud of our boys’ efforts. The large crowd in attendance greatly enjoyed what was a very exciting encounter.

Our guys now have to pick themselves off the floor very quickly. They travel to Northampton on Saturday to take on the Thunder, hoping to extend their unbeaten Midlands Conference run to four games and to continue their push towards the top of the league table.

 

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U14 Boys Go Top of Midlands Conference Table

Our U14 Boys Squad went top of the Midlands Conference today (Sun 17th November) following two excellent victories over local rivals Sandwell Scorpions and City of Birmingham at Sport TCAT.

The Warriors overpowered the Scorpions in their first game of the afternoon by 48 points. Their 71 to 23 point win was followed by a19 point win against City of Birmingham.

Following their defeat away to Leicester Warriors the boys have subsequently won 5 games straight including today’s matches - to surge to the top of the Conference Table. The up to date table is shown below.

U14 Boys National League Midlands Conference Table Sun 16th Nov 08

 

Team	Gemes Played	Wins	Losses	Pts For	Pts Against	Pts Diff	Points
Shropshire Warriors	6	5	1	320	262	58	16
Northants Thunder	4	4	0	304	97	207	12
Ilkeston Outlaws	4	3	1	201	131	70	10
City of Birmingham	4	2	2	193	168	25	8
Leicester Sparks	3	2	1	150	179	-29	7
Leicester Warriors	2	2	0	144	81	63	6
Sandwell Scorpions	4	1	3	114	214	-100	6
Derbyshire Arrows	6	0	6	168	357	-189	6
Worcester Wolves	3	0	3	115	196	-81	3
Notts Nova	2	0	2	67	91	-24	2

Full Match Reports will be on the site shortly.