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Mackeson/TGH Pacesetters Inter-Ward Basketball Championships…Thomas drops 42 to give Albouystown Game 1
By Edison Jefford
Albouystown/Charlestown guard, Sheldon Thomas dropped 42 points against Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust to give his team Game 1 in the best-of-three Mackeson-sponsored Trinity Grid Holdings (TGH) Pacesetters Inter-Ward Basketball Championship Final Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Thomas’ solo heroics led to a blowout 80-55 win for Albouystown. He was the only player in double figures for his team, which literally gave Thomas the right to exploit the weak defensive strategy against him;
Albouystown/Charlestown guard, Sheldon Thomas (second, right #12) goes inside the paint for a left-handed layup against a crowd of Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust defenders Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Joel Ifill had eight points.
Naylon Loncke scored 17 points and grabbed five rebounds, while Joslyn Crawford had 13 points and 16 rebounds for Wortmanville/Werk-en-Rust, which will have to win two games straight to topple the defending champions in the 2013 competition.
Thomas started hot, landing a three-pointer then a jumper off the glass to give his team an early 9-2 lead. But Wortmanville’s, Randy Richardson and Loncke went to work on the boards, which led to a 12-14 deficit with three minutes to play in the first quarter.
Loncke then equalised 14-14 with a coast-to-coast layup; jumpers from Jermaine Taylor and Michael Turner gave Wortmanville an 18-14 lead. The quarter ended 18-17 for Wortmanville that seemed to be the offensively potent side in the period.
However, Thomas again went downtown early in the second period, which launched a 10-0 run for his team with seven minutes to play before halftime, but Turner went to work to cut the lead in what was shaping up to be a colossal battle.
Crawford and Loncke continued to pound their way in the paint before Loncke swung outside to land back-to-back three-pointers and a layup to equalise with nine seconds left before halftime. It remained a deadlocked game at 34-34 midway through the contest.
Albouystown and Wortmanville exchanged points when the game resumed, but midway through the penultimate period, Thomas and Dave Causway put on a three-point shooting exhibition that was really the turning point of the game for Albouystown.
The duo combined for a 10-point 49-39 lead, which was quickly extended to 54-39 owed to a 20-point run from Albouystown. The offensive onslaught forced a timeout from Wortmanville deep in the third quarter that ended 61-42 with Albouystown in a healthy lead.
Albouystown continued its pressure defence and calculated offence to ensure an offensive run continue in the fourth period. Thomas ran riot for the biggest individual score of the competition so far. The game was over with Wortmanville literally giving up.
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