XING ON SONG AS 3 INTO 2 DOES GO!

November 10, 2022

XING WANG SANK FIVE THREE-POINTERS ON HIS DEBUT TO SINK TROJANS 2 IN THE INTER-CLUB BATTLE AT HEREWARD COLLEGE WHICH THE THIRD TEAM WON 59-49.

XING WAS IN IMPECCABLE FORM WITH HIS SHOOTING AND SANK FIVE TRIPLES FROM SEVEN ATTEMPTS AS THE THIRDS DOMINATED FROM THE OFF, THEIR TOUGH, NO-NONSENSE DEFENSIVE PLAY THWARTING THE SECONDS TIME AND AGAIN.

SECONDS SHOOTING, BY STARK CONTRAST WAS AWFUL IN THE FIRST QUARTER WHICH 3 TOOK 14-9 AFTER LEADING 12-2, AND THEN FOLLOWED THIS BY GOING IN A HALF-TIME WITH AN EXTENDED LEAD AT 29-18 AS TREVOR ROBINSON WORKED HIS INSIDE GAME TO THE FULL AS 2 MISSED THE INJURED EGIS BALIUNAS AND MATT BARR.

THREE THEN LANDED A 14-2 SALVO FROM 29-22 WHICH LEFT TWO’S COACH BEN LINNETT TRYING DESPERATELY TO SALVAGE SOMETHING FROM THE GAME, BUT WHEN 3 HIT THE RIGHT NOTES AT AND XING BEGAN TO PLAY SWEET MUSIC, IT BECAME 43-24, IT WAS ALL OVER. TWO FOUGHT GAMELY AND AUDI GUDLIEKIS TRIED HIS BEST WITHOUT REWARD AS TWO HAD TO SETLLE FOR SECOND BEST ON THE NIGHT.

IN THE END, THE YOUNGSTERS WHICH MAKE UP THE BULK OF THE SECOND TEAM’S LINE-UP HAD NO ANSWER TO THE (MAINLY) VETERANS BUT WITH XING ON SONG, IT WAS ‘NIL POINTS’ FOR THEM IN THIS CONTEST.

SCORERS:

TH3 – WANG 17, ROBINSON 15, NOVELSKAS 8, MAXWELL 8, MIRCEA 6, COOMBES 3, DICKSON 2, MADDOX 0, SANCHEZ 0, MURRAY 0, PETRENKO 0.

TH2 – GUDLIEKIS 19, EALES 8, LUMLEY 7, WU 4, LINNETT 4, UBAVICIUS 4, SINGH 2, ZEXIAN 1, GODWIN 0