University of Worcester Basketball

Recap

This week saw Worcester travel a short distance over to the University of Coventry.

The game started quickly for Worcester after some good defensive pressure lead to a leak out, allowing Nathan Gallagher a pathway straight to the basket for the first 2pt’s of the game. Coventry quickly answered with a 3pt shot of their own commencing the rhythm for the entirety of the game.  Big plays for Worcester down the stretch on Defence rolled into clutch baskets by Keon Dunphy, Alex Brine and Jake Chapman allowing Worcester to lead for a majority of the game.

This game of Cat and Mouse did have it scares, with Coventry stringing together back to back successful scoring possessions in the 4th after springing a full court man press in order to try to shift the momentum. Although a shock at first, this little mouse was born to scare elephants!

After a quick time-out called by Coach Kieran, Worcester came out flying scoring the last 9pts of the game ultimately leaving the game dead in its tracks giving Worcester the win on the road.

Coach Kieran had this to say ““Another tough game today against a strong Coventry side who took us right to the end. We have a saying in our team of ‘Respect all, fear no-one’ and today we embodied just that. Despite the lack of players, despite the hostile crowd, we stuck with what we knew.  We stayed together and came home with the win. Big shout out to the BUCS 2 guys on the side who cheered us on all game, much love to those guys.  As always, this game is done and it’s onto the next one.”