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Oct 12, 2010 Sports
By Edison Jefford
Old lessons should have thought Courts Pacesetters that Ravens is a lethal fourth quarter team.
It did not, however, and the result was that Pacesetters did everything right for three quarters, failed to put the Ravens away and ended up losing the Pepsi Street Series.
Like I said last week in my game analysis, something special always happens when these two teams meet. The extraordinary occasions Sunday night ranged from a brief protest that obviously broke the concentration of the Pacesetters to skilful displays.
In the end, Pacesetters ended up succumbing under the pressure to lose 56-74 when the excellent crunch-time defence from Ravens sucked the offensive life out of them in the fourth quarter that kept Ravens’ tradition of closing out in the fourth period intact.
Rodwell ‘Kobe’ Fortune scored 14 points for Ravens before damaging his shoulder with another guard, Ryan Stephney supporting with 13 points. Ryan Gullen and Stephon ‘Hardest’ Henry both had 12 points to confirm that the guards won it for Ravens.
Travis Burnett continued to lead the offence for Pacesetters as he had done in the previous games with 13 points while Naylon Loncke had 10 points. National players Royston Siland and Stephon Gillis had nine and six points respectively in the 1-2 series loss.
Pacesetters had won the first of the three-game Pepsi-sponsored Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association Street Series last Wednesday night with Ravens returning to take the second game in a tense battle on the Burnham Basketball Court Saturday night.
Pacesetters seemed to be the more structured team at the beginning of the game, running smooth offensive plays with shooting guard and forward, Naylon Loncke coming off back-to-back picks to hit crisp three-point jump shots that sent the right message.
Pacesetters looked clinical in the first quarter that they led 16-14 before surrendering the lead to Ravens 37-32 at halftime. They however took back the lead at the end of the third quarter where they led 51-49 before frightening offensive stats became a reality.
In ten minutes of Championship basketball, Ravens’ defence were able to completely shut down the offence of Courts Pacesetter, who had Burnett on a miracle rampage in the preceding quarters of a game that brought out most of the local luminaries. Pacesetters scored just five points compared to Ravens 25 points in the final quarter which meant Ravens defence matched its offence for the winning combination. On the other hand, Pacesetters played poor defence and poor offence in the fourth, which is why they lost.
The title was placed on a platter for Pacesetters; all they had to do was grab it since with Dwayne ‘Sugar’ Roberts and Sereiah Clarke absent from the Ravens the team is much weaker, but yet the Ravens was able to extend its record against Pacesetters.
In the last eleven months, Pacesetters and Ravens have played six times with Ravens winning on five occasions. The statistics have given the Ravens an invincible look against Pacesetters after it also won the Georgetown League ahead of them.
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