MAXWELL HALTS TRONADOES’ PROGRESS – STORM AVERTED!

October 20, 2022

IAIAN MAXWELL HIT A SEASON-HIGH 21 POINTS TO INSPIRE TROJANS 3 TO A 60-54 VICTORY OVER COVENTRY TORNADOES 2 AT FINHAM PARK 2 SCHOOL AND AVERT THE STORM THE HOME SIDE THREATENED.

“WE MANAGED TO REIN HIM IN” SAID EXUBERANT PLAYER/COACH TREVOR ROBINSON AFTER THE GAME WHICH THE VETERAN ALSO SAID WAS “A TRIUMPH FOR ALL-ROUND TEAMWORK.”

MAXWELL, ALONG WITH MATTY NOVELSKAS SCORED THE FIRST 16 POINTS AS TROJANS HAD TO WORK HARD TO COMBAT THE INPUT FROM TORNADOES’ BEN CLARKE AND JAMIE COULSON, AND IT WAS THE HOME SIDE WHO LED INTO THE HALF-TIME BREAK AT 29-21.

BUT THE LATTER PART OF THE FXTURE BELONGEDTO TROJANS AS COSTA MIRCEA BEGAN TO SHOW HIS POWER  AT BOTH ENDS AS THE REDS MOUNTED THEIR CHALLENGE FOR THE POINTS, A CHALLENGE THEY COMPLETED IN STYLE TO LAND THEIR SECOND WIN FROM THREE OUTINGS AND MAINTAIN THEIR POSITION NEAR THE TOP OF DIVISION TWO.

SCORERS – TORNADOES: CLARKE 12, COULSON 12, PASTOR 8, DOSANSH 6 FABALES 5, GIASTI 5, CANTES FREEMAN 4, BLAKE 2, RELF 0,HOSKINS 0, KNIBBS 0.

TROJANS: MAXWELL 21, MIRCEA 13, NOVELSKAS 11, ROBINSON 9, DICKSON 4, BENT 2, MURRAY 0, COOMBES 0PETRENKO 0.