Venue: Essex University
Date: 10th March 2010
Competition: Derby Day
UEA Team:
D Khomba
W Wei
A Pearce
T Moyo
A Shogbeni
S Rotherham
T Orogun
J McGowan
E Ewart-Sanchez
Match Report: Minutes after watching the women claim victory in the first basketball game, the UEA men’s team took to the court attempting to come away with a 2-0 victory over Essex in the basketball arena. Essex started the stronger team and hit 4-5 threes in the first quarter, taking advantage of their tiny court to shoot over UEA’s zone defense. UEA soon switched to a man defense and Essex began running some well-organised screen actions to get their shooters open. Essex opened up a 16-point lead during the second quarter but UEA were able to reduce the deficit to ten at halftime. UEA came out of halftime with a ridiculous third quarter, outscoring Essex 16-3 and quieting the raucous home crowd. Unfortunately the struggle of the comeback took it’s toll on UEA and they weren’t able to sustain their lead throughout the 4th quarter. Essex slowly regained the lead and pushed it to 7 in the final minute, before some tactical fouling and strong drives brought UEA to back within 4, they ran out of time to pull out the win. The story of the game was missed foul shots for the Panthers, clanking 12 of their freebies.
