Basketball: Crusaders too hot for Celts.Cardiff Celts 56 Coventry Crusaders The Coventry Crusaders is a Coventry-based basketball team competing in Division 1 of the English Basketball League. They play their home games at the Coventry Sports Centre, which has seating for approximately 1,000 people, and the junior teams play at the The Alan Higgs Centre. 69 CRUSADERS proved that they have mastered the knack of winning ugly as they claimed the points in Bristol to set themselves up for Saturday's final home league game of the season against Manchester Magic Manchester Magic is an English basketball team from Manchester, Greater Manchester, competing in the English Basketball League, Division 1. They are owned by former NBA star John Amaechi and play their home games at the Amaechi Basketball Centre. . Celts led 14-9 at the end of an error-ridden first quarter, but a hat-trick of three-point field goals from Ben Potts saw Coventry nudge into a 29-26 advantage at the mid-way point. Mike Gregory
Mike Gregory was born in 1964 in Wigan, the former head coach of Wigan Warriors and player for Warrington and Great Britain. proved a constant threat for the 'home' side, sparking a 15-3 sequence in the third period. But John Olinger, Travis Lay, Ed Baynes-Clarke, Joe Francombe, and Simon Payne retaliated in style and Crusaders logged a 14-3 run of their own to go into the final session with a 47-44 lead that was rapidly extended to a 12-point cushion. Crusaders scorers: Olinger 23, Potts, 16, Lay 15, Payne 5, Francombe 2, Twierdzinski 2, Baynes-Clarke 2, Hudson 2, Hall 1. Cardiff: Gregory 24, Berry, 15, Miles 14, Chambers 3. SATURDAY'S match at Coventry Sports Centre tips off at 7.30pm |
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