Dublin Business School 63-61 DKIT

DKIT fall short on big effort V's DBS

Top L-R; B Griffin, K Norwak, Kev Lacey, C Martin, D McGovern (Coach)

Bottom L-R : Z Zeynels, E Ryan, A, O'Maolagain, J Rafferty, AJ O'Neil

DKIT face their second game in three days against top of the league and unbeaten DBS on Friday morning. DKIT needed a another big effort that they showed against ITB and DKIT coach Darren McGovern got what he asked from his players. DBS started brightly with their American Glenn Wong showing off his long range shooting. Slowly DKIT came in to the game with two three pointers from AJ O'Neil and Kev Lacey. Kev Lacey showed his worth to the team with great defense. Z Zelnys caused trouble for DBS with some good drives to the basket and good passing. Though, it was proving difficult for DKIT to stop Wong getting off his three pointers. At the end of the quarter it was level at 14 all.

At the beginning of the second quarter J Rafferty hit a big three for DKIT and followed with a good fast break to put the away team ahead. Some more good scores by Kev Lacey and great rebounding by K Norwak and C Martin settled DKIT well into the game. DBS began to find easy scores to DKIT's frustrations. This led to DBS taking a 36 - 30 lead to half time.

Following the break Kev Lacey took over the scoring for DKIT with 8 quick points. You could feel that DKIT were beginning to believe that they could sneak a win.

Going into the forth DKIT were only down four points. The Dundalk lads stuck to the game plan and ran their set play well each time gettin good scores and good shots. Some lucky scores on great defense by DKIT fell for DBS at crucial times. With 50 seconds to go the game was level with DBS's G Wong in possession. He managed to convert a good drive through the middle to put DBS up two. Then it as DKIT's turn and K Lacey almost converted a mid range shot only to feel he was fouled but was not called. So it was left for DKIT to foul and put DBS on the line and hope they miss. And that's what happened. with 13 seconds remaining some poor decisions by DKIT guards meant that they didn't run a set play that was so successful for them all game. This will be put down to inexperience and they will learn from it again. This loss still leaves the DKIT squad in second place.

Top Scorers
Kev Lacey  27
Aj O'Neill  11
J Rafferty  8