TIGERS COME FROM BEHIND TO CLAW TWOS!

January 25, 2022

A SENSATIONAL START SAW TROJANS 2 ROAR INTO A SUPERB TEN-POINT LEAD IN THE OPENING QUARTER OF THEIR HOME GAME WITH TAMWORTH TIGERS BEFORE BUCKLING IN THE SECOND HALF TO GO DOWN 62-71.

A BLISTERING FIRST TEN MINUTES IN WHICH TROJANS MUST HAVE SUNK SOME 75% OF THEIR SHOTS LOOKED TO CONTINUE AFTER THE BREAK AS THEY INCREASED THEIR LEAD TO 32-16 WITH THE VISITORS LOOKING SHELL-SHOCKED. BUT THE GOOD TIMES CAME TO AN END AS THE GAME WORE ON AND A SHUT-OUT IN THE DYING MINUTES SAW THE TEAMS GO IN LEVEL AT HALF-TIME AT 37 ALL.

THEN IT WAS THE TURN OF TIGERS TO STRETCH AWAY AND AS THE FOUL-COUNT INCREASED FOR THE HOME SIDE IT LOOKED MORE AND MORE LIKE AN AWAY WIN WAS ON THE CARDS. AS USUAL LUKAS BOLDA WAS IMPRESSIVE AND INSIDE THE FINAL PERIOD HE SHOWED HIS CLASS WITH THE BALL.

TROJANS TRIED, BUT THEY COULD NOT REPRODUCE THAT EARLY FORM AND AFTER AUDI GUDLEIKIS AND BABS GURUNG FOULED OUT ANDY DICKSON’S YOUNG SIDE FELL.

IN A MATCH WITH 41 FOULS BUT A TOUGH, SPORTING DISPLAY FROM BOTH SIDES, TROJANS MISSED THE ABSENT  TRIO OF BALIUNAS LUMLEY AND BIKRAM BUT 22 POINTS FROM BOLDA TOOK IT FOR TIGERS.