COVENTRY'S PREMIER BASKETBALL CLUB Since 1972
BIG BEN CHIMES FOR TORNADOES!

BIG BEN CHIMES FOR TORNADOES!

January 21, 2022

BEN CLARK IS RENOWNED FOR HIS INSIDE GAME, BUT THE TORNADOES 6’7″ CENTRE STUNNED TROJANS 3 BY LANDING FOUR THREE-POINTERS IN HIS 24 POINT HAUL AS THE VETERANS CRASHED TO A 78-58 DEFEAT AT WOODLANDS.

THE ABSENCE OF CLIVE BENT AND FLU-VICTIM DAVID SANCHEZ DID NOT HELP THE CAUSE, AND A HASTY PHONE CALL AT 7PM TO RECRUIT ANDY DICKSON COULD NOT PREVENT TORNADOES FROM DOMINATING THINGS AS THE HOME SIDE PROSPERED.

THERE WAS HOWEVER, A PLEASING PERFORMANCE FROM YOUNG SAM COOMBES WHO ALSO HIT THE TARGET FROM BEYOND THE ARC – NOT ONCE, OR TWICE BUT THREE TIMES IN HIS 11 POINT TOTAL, TO SILENCE THE CATERWAULING FROM THE OPPONENTS’ BENCH AS THE REDS TRIED TO RECOVER FROM A 26-13 OPENING QUARTER DEFICIT. BY HALF-TIME IT WAS DOWN TO 42-33, BUT JUST AS THEY THREATENED, TROJANS FELL AWAY AGAIN DESPITE 20 POINTS COMING FROM TREVOR ROBINSON.