UNHAPPY MONDAY FOR ONE AND TWO!

November 30, 2021

BOTH TROJANS ONE AND TWO SLIPPED TO DEFEAT ON AN UNHAPPY MONDAY TO END THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.

THE SCOURGE OF LAST WEEK’S SECOND TEAM LOSS TO ARDEN GRIFFINS, PAUL ROBERTS (PICTURED) WAS AT IT AGAIN WHEN THE SENIOR SIDE VISITED SOLIHULL COLLEGE, AS HE DROPPED IN FOUR THREE-POINTERS EITHER SIDE OF THE FINAL BREAK TO CLAW BACK AN EIGHT-POINT DEFICIT AND SPUR GRIFFINS ON TO A 73-72 VICTORY. HE WAS SHACKLED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF, AND ONLY CAME GOOD AS THE GAME REACHED A THRILLING CLIMAX, AND HIS EFFORTS FLOORED TROJANS WHO HAD LOOKED IN CONTROL AS THE TENSION MOUNTED.

THEY STILL MANAGED TO GET THEIR NOSES IN FRONT, BUT PRECARIOUSLY SITTING ON A ONE-POINT LEAD, A LAST MINUTE FOUL SENT ROBERTS’ STRIKE PARTNER LUKE HATFIELD TO THE LINE AND HE DID NOT DISAPPOINT.

WITH SECONDS LEFT HOWEVER, GRIFFINS PACKED THEIR DEFENSE TO STOP TREVOR ROBINSON’S INSIDE GAME, PROMPTING A LONG-RANGE EFFORT FROM DOM GORGOL, BUT WHEN IT CAME OUT AND THE HOME SIDE REBOUNDED, TROJANS HOPES DIED WITH THE BUZZER..

ROBERTS LED THE UNBEATEN GRIFFINS WITH 20 AS SAM WORKMAN FOLLOWED ON 13, WHILE MARK LARNER AND ROBINSON EQUALLY SHARED 40 FOR TROJANS.

THE GAME AT HEREWARD WENT THE WAY OF WARWICK CHINA RED AS THEY LED FROM THE EARLY STAGES TO REBUFF EVERY CHALLENGE TROJANS 2 MADE BEFORE THE VISITORS WENT HOME THE HAPPIER ON THE END OF A 62-53 VICTORY, WITH ANDY W AND HIS MEN GIVING A DEMONSTRATION FROM THE FREE-THROW LINE AS 18 OF 26 ATTEMPTS MADE IT THROUGH THE TROJANS’ HOOP. HE SCORED 19 POINTS WITH EGIS BALIUNAS MAKING 16 FOR TROJANS.