Neptune go top after city derby
Star of the Sea 83 67 Dungannon
Esat Telecom Demons 66 95 Neptune
St Vincent’s 73 86 Killester
Team Kerry Spring Water 78(34) 59(30) Burger King Limerick
R Turner 29 R Winston 30
V Daly 16 K Lewis 16
T Smith 15 J Galvin 4
J Teahon 10Limerick enjoyed the advantage early on leading 14-8 and were 16-11 in front at the end of the first quarter with American S Winston and Lewis leading the way. The introduction of John Teahan swung it Kerry Springs way as Robbie Turner and Vince Daly knocked down some big three-pointers while Terry Smith and John Teahan excelled on defence to give Kerry Spring a 34-30 lead at half-time. It was an evenly contested third quarter with KSW leading 48-47 entering the last ten minutes. Turner went on a scoring spree to push the Killarney side 57-50 in front and then Kareem Lewis fouled out with 6:37 remaining. Smith Daly and Turner extended Kerry Springs lead to 15 points and they ran out easy winners in the end. The loss of Lewis was a huge blow to Limerick but KSW always had a slight edge with Terry Smith dominating the boards and drawing the big fouls from Lewis.
Sligo Dairies 73(35) 90(44) Dungannon
C Doyal 29 B Wedel 26
A Wilmott 20 T Smullen 20
I McMorrow 10 C Pagan 12
Players Fouled Out:
I McMorrow (Last minute)Sligo chased the game from the outset. They got to within 3 points mid-way through the third quarter but a controversial call from referee Mary Whelan against Chris Doyal effectively killed off Sligo's fight-back.
Hibernian UCD Marian 99(43) 109(62) St Vincent’s
D Jones 27 F Williams 31
R Booker 24 D Donnelly 23
N Charles 19 S McGuirk 15
Star of the Sea 93(46) 85(44) Clare Jets
J Leahy 29 L Hunt 30
J Bennett 21 A Pieper 28
T Kennedy 18 M Ayanbadjejo 12
Hibernian UCD Marian 106(60) 83(38) Sligo Dairies
Pat Glover 30 Chris Doyle 26
Dwaine Jones 22 Andy Wilmott 21
Neville Charles 19 Shane O'Meara 16UCD were in control all the way. Sligo seemed not up to form at all.
Tolka Rovers 74(40) 73(39) Waterford Crystal
Randall Mounts 17 Kareem Porter 27
Lennie McMillan 14 Roscoe Patterson 18
Joey Hastrip 13 Dean Kavanagh 14
Players Fouled Out:
Joey Hastrip (Last 2 min)Waterford started out great and went into the lead straight away. They were 12 points up going into the third quarter. Tolka then pulled back with great shooting from Joey Hastrip and managed to win the half by a point.
In the second half it was fairly tight with the teams scoring basket for basket. Tolka managed to pull away slightly and going into the fourth quarter they were 3 up. Both teams fought hard and with 2 minutes on the clock Waterford were up by 5 points. At this point Kareem porter missed his free throws. Lennie McMillan scored a two pointer. Haffner was fouled and scored both his free throws. Michael Quill was fouled with one second on the clock. He was on the line for two shots with the score at 73-72 to Crystal. He scored both his shots to win the game. A hugely exciting game overall with both teams playing excellent basketball.
Kerry Spring Water 74(45) 83(47) Clare Jets
Robbie Turner 29 Anthony Pieper 33
Terry Smith 9 Michael Ayanbadjejo 30
Cormac O'Donoghue 9 Lester Hunt 11
Players Fouled Out:
Cormac O'Donoghue (3min)Kerry Spring went ahead at the beginning of the game with the score at 14-9. Clare Jets came back with a vengeance and at the end of the first quarter the score stood at 30-21 to Clare Jets. Clare Jets continued on their roll in the second quarter with great shooting from Pieper and Ayanbadjejo. Kerry Springs then changed tactics putting John Teahan marking Pieper. Teahan did great work in this role. Shane Horgan showed great skill from outside the 3-point line, as did Robbie Turner who got a 3-pointer on the buzzer of half time. All these combined Kerry had managed to bring the score to within 2 points of the leaders. However Jets cut off their comeback in the second half and at the end of the third quarter the Jets were again well in front at 70-57. Spring fought back and with two and a half minutes left the score was 78-72 in favour of Jets. However Pieper and Ayanbadjejo were too much for Spring and Jets continued on for a 9 point victory.
ESB Women's SuperLeague
Saturday 6th November
Meteors 44(28) 51(26) Univ. of Limerick
K Hennessy 12 U Kyne 14
C Harvey 7 N Whalmsley 10
C O'Sullivan 7Sunday 7th November
Tolka Rovers 80(45) 44(20) Killester
Rachel Kelly 17 Gillian Ennis 9
Denise Walsh 13 Jane Blount 8
Sharon Kelly 12 Sinead Vaghaun 7
Tolka Rovers dominated throughout playing their whole team in a great show.Crusaders 45(25) 88(41) Avonmore Snowcream Wildcats
Emma Pearce 21 Michelle Aspell 14
Helen Taylor 8 Mary Fitzpatrick 14
Sinead Doyle 5 Kate Magher 14
Crusaders started out fairly well keeping Wildcats to 11-13 at the end of the first quarter. Wildcats went on to extend their lead and win by a convincing 43 points.
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