Saturday, April 16, 2011

Ravens Qualify for Top Four

Dundalk Ravens 109-64 Carrick on Shannon Cougars 

A fantastic first quarter set up an easy win for the Ravens to make forth spot theirs with one more game remaining. Mindi Savicius was on fire in the first quarter scoring 17 points helped with 6 from Darren McGovern, 8 from Andrius Burba and two threes from Aaron Lawless. At the end of the first quarter the Ravens were up 37-17.

From an early stage the Ravens played their bench as the Cougars were pretty much second in everything from scoring to rebounds. Excellent scores from M Karpinski, K Keraputis and D Maguire helped the Ravens maintain a big led for the Ravens. Half time score was 55-40.

The third quarter the Ravens pulled further away with three pointers from Darren McGovern (2), K Keraputis, M Savicius and T Nerbutas. The final quarter seen the game lose its competitive edge as the Cougars realised their was nothing they could do to stop the Ravens tonight with the game ending in a 109-64 victory for the Ravens to clinch a top four spot.

The Ravens now play Mullingar Dragons in the semi final who won the league and also play them in the final league game of the season.


Team and Scorers:
Darren McGovern (19), Fu Faapito, David Maguire (2), John Rafferty (2), Mindagas Savicius (35), Kostas Keraputas (9), Tadas Nerbutas (7), Liam Woods, Mateusz Karpinski (6), Andrius Burba (16), Aaron Lawless (8)