Redbacks Split Round With Lightning

In the first State Basketball League game for 2009 played at Belmont Oasis Leisure Centre, the Southside Mitsubishi Redbacks women’s team beat the Lakeside Lightning 70 to 55.  The Redbacks’ champion power forward and past Women’s National Basketball League player, Brooke Hiddlestone, dominated play amassing 29 points.  Next highest scorers for the Redbacks were guards Kerise Delcoure and Yasmin Seden, who both scored 13 points.  The Lightning’s Natalie Young was the equal game-high scorer with 29 points.

Hiddlestone also won the Len Vlahov Memorial Award for the best Redbacks’ player in the first home game of the year.  

Redbacks’ coach Narelle Henry commented that, “While the game was scrappy some allowance can be made as it was the first match of the year and, at the end of the day a win is still a win.”

The Redbacks’ men’s team was less successful losing to the Lakeside Lightning 85 to 120.  19-year-old Redbacks’ Centre and under 20 State Team representative, Michael Vigor, won the Len Vlahov Memorial Award having amassed 19 points against the tough Lightning opposition.

The action continues this Friday at Belmont Oasis, Alexander Road Belmont, with the Redbacks’ women playing the Willetton Tigers at 6.30PM and the men playing the Tigers at 8.30PM.  This is followed by a Saturday away fixture against the Stirling Senators at the Warwick Leisure Centre, Warwick Road Warwick, with the women’s game starting at 6PM and the men’s game at 8PM.

By Gary Prior (Perth Redbacks)




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