Ravens suffer loss away to Mullingar DragonsOn Saturday night the Ravens made the trip to Rochfortbridge to play the Dragons. With only seven players available due to various commitments the Ravens knew this would be a difficult game for them. Two under 19 players started in David Maguire and John Rafferty and also had a third in Liam Woods who played a vital role off the bench. Darren McGovern started brightly for the Ravens with a three pointer followed soon after with another. M Mindagas was showing some good promise early but got into foul trouble quickly which limited his playing time to help the Ravens get scores on the board. A Burba was strong at the rim and got the Ravens rebounding against a bigger Dragons team. The Ravens showed good spirit to be ahead 18-14 at the end of the first quarter.
Going into the second the Ravens continued with good play on the defensive end and also offensively. A Burba had a good quarter scoring 6 points and setting up fast breaks with great rebounds. John Rafferty ran the point position well and had help from K Keraputis who turned up late to the game due to work which hampered him with no warm up and struggled to get into the game straight away. The Ravens held their own and finished the half up 30-26.
The Dragons came out of the half time break with huge attack from the three point line scoring 5 in the quarter along with some easy scores due to the poor defense from the Ravens. Even when the Ravens changed up their defense nothing seemed to work as the Dragons continued to score at ease. National League player Janner Heering was in fantastic form for the Dragons and couldn't seemingly miss in the quarter scoring 18 in the period. At the end of the third quarter the score was 60-42
Going into the final quarter down 18 was always going to be difficult to get back but the Ravens fought hard and manged to get back to to two points with good scores from D McGovern and A Burba but the Dragons had something left and got a couple of scores from the free throw line and the Ravens lost Mindagas to being fouled out. Needless turnovers proved to be the difference with the teams and the Dragons ran out worthy winners. Next up for the Ravens is another away game to the Athboy Cobras on Friday night and will be hoping for a better performance from the team.
Team and scorers
Darren McGovern (22), David Maguire (6), John Rafferty, Mindi Mindagas (14), Kostas Keraputis (5), Liam Woods (2), Andrius Burba (13).
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