Wyndham fell short of an upset win the Big V women’s championship, while it was a tough weekend for the men’s side.
The women’s side was at home on Saturday night against the McKinnon Cougars, who are battling it out for a finals spot.
It was a game of runs throughout the match, with the Cougars winning, 83-79.
Scores had been level in the last minute before the Cougars scored the last four points of the game.
Coach Jason Bryant said it was a strong performance against a top six side.
“After a slow start, the women fought back and had a strong second quarter to take a small lead into the halftime break,” he said.
“McKinnon came out strong in the third quarter regaining the lead before the final period.
“Another strong fourth quarter outscoring McKinnon saw us re-take the lead with one minute left in the come.
“Being in foul trouble, we sent McKinnon to the line too many times in the final part of the game allowing them to take a small win.”
Briana Bailey top scored with 27 points for Wyndham, while Ella Macleod provided 16 points off the bench.
Wyndham faces Hume City Broncos this Saturday with both teams entering the match on the back of five losses.
Wyndham’s men’s side lost back-to-back matches against the Cougars and then the Shepparton Gators on the weekend.
On Saturday night, the Cougars did the damage in the middle two quarters to come away with a 114-86 win.
The Cougars led by just three points at quarter time, before outscoring Wyndham, 64-31 in the middle two quarters.
Wyndham finished strongly but it was too late.
Junior Garbrah top scored with 23 points for Wyndham.
Wyndham then made the trip up to Shepparton to face the Gators.
The Gators started on fire and led by 11 points at quarter time and increased that to 27 points at the main break.
There was no letting up, with the margin at 36 points heading into the final quarter.
Wyndham again ate into the lead in the final quarter, but the damage was already done as it lost 103-77.
Garbrah top scored with 16 points.
In Victorian youth championship men, Wyndham lost to Eltham 111-85.
Adam Arkadio and Brodie Salter finished with 22 points each.
Coach Aaron Bensted said they continue to put guys in positions to grow.
“Our back end focus now is to keep pushing and build on the learnings.”
The youth league women lost to the Wildcats. 66-63.
Coach Matt Stephens said there were a lot of positives out of the game, having lost to Eltham by 36 earlier in the year.
Tara Murray
