Outlaws finish off in style

Ilkeston Outlaws 93 - Wirral Hornets 66

With a full house to watch the final game, the supporters were to see the best game of the season.

Ilkeston Outlaws went into their final game of the season looking to finish off with a win against the Wirral Hornets who were looking to win and secure a place in the League playoffs. 

Outlaws had a full team available for the game and set about to put right the defeat to Wirral earlier in the year. They started well with Martyn Blankley leading the way offensively and quickly went into an 11 – 4 lead forcing Wirral to call the Timeout, but they could not make any headway into the Outlaws lead, which they would hold onto and stretch out as the game progressed.

The first quarter was all Outlaws as they ran out to a 20 – 9 lead, into the second quarter which was a much closer contest between the two teams but with Hector Garcia and Vytautus Liutkus working hard Outlaws went in at half time leading 34 – 21.

The second half was to produce a much more physical game and point scoring as both teams looked for the inspiration needed to win the game and with Sean Dilks, Jamie Grainger and Ben Hallam working effortless to score offensively and with Lee English, Tony Palmer, George Mullins, Junior Menakaya, Gregg Emmerson and Sam Gray working hard to stop the threat defensively there was only ever going to be one winner.

Fouls continued to mount into the second half forcing both teams to try other things to secure the win  that was so much wanted by both sides. Outlaws were too much ahead for Wirral to come back and ran out to win the game 93 – 66 which is the biggest result of the season for the Outlaws.

MVP Top point scorer Hector Oceja-Garcia 27 pts 

Steve Braker

Team Manager