By Lachlan Mitchell
The Casey Cavaliers were back on the court this week for their round-three encounter with the Cobras in Kilsyth.
The women were on court first and were looking to continue their winning run after a 2-0 start to the season.
The Cavs were off to a slow start falling behind 8-0 to kick off the match.
Shereesha Richards got the ball rolling for the girls hitting a lay-up to open the account.
Louise Brown continued the momentum, getting her game going with a tip-in as well as drawing a foul to bridge the gap.
Taylah Gilliam also impacted the scoreboard hitting a three from deep, to ease the tension and reel the margin in.
Monique Conti was never far from the action hitting her first shot of the evening to send the score out to a 21-12 quarter-time score.
The second quarter was very much dominated by the Cavaliers, who continued to hold sway through Louise Brown and Rachel Bell who was active from beyond the arc.
Casey held a 10-point lead going into half-time to continue to hold sway.
The women’s third quarter was consistent with only 15 points scored and a number of shots missed through the middle-stages of the quarter.
Kilsyth’s Nikita Young was also one of her side’s best scoring 15 points.
The Cavs ran out 13-point winners in the 71-58 final score.
The men suffered a much different faith at the hands of the Cobras.
The side was coming off a heavy 102-86 point loss to the Dandenong Rangers.
Jordan Bell was firing early, making an early three-point shot to open the account.
Kilsyth’s Adrian Tomada and Ben Ursich put together a strong run in the second term to ease the margin out to 10 points.
Bell was unstoppable under the net at both ends of the court, finishing with 15 points and eight rebounds.
Kilsyth put its foot-down in the third quarter to extend the margin and ran out seven-point winners on a tough night for coach David Peters’ men.
“We got pushed around in our game against Dandenong,” Peters said.
“This week we made some changes. We improved on those areas and we spoke about what we need to improve on this week against Kilsyth.
“We just did the opposite; we didn’t shoot the ball as well as we had in the past couple of games
“The season is going well, our processes from what we expect from each-other. From a results perspective, we are obviously disappointed and the issues we are having can be rectified very quickly with the group we currently have.
“We are excited because we are getting a lot of guys we are getting in shortly.”
Casey next play the Mt Gambier Pioneers at Casey Stadium on Saturday night.
