THURSDAY NIGHTS IN THE HAWKS NEST ARE BACK AND IT WAS ROCKING!!!
After the long wait, Basketball finally returned. Thursday saw the Seahawks face the Dorset Storm in the 2021-22 Season Opener and the guys put up a brilliant performance against the 2019-20 Champions.
The Seahawks is a young fresh team, with the vast majority playing in their first proper competitive basketball games. We haven't been together long, with many new players from September but it's clear the chemistry is there.
With the hall full of LOUD supporters, the Seahawks came out flying and shocked the experienced Storm with buckets from myself and 3's from Tobias Strongman and Mason Reeves saw us jump to an early lead. Strong Zone D kept them out at the other end as we led 13-5 after 7 mins. Storm composed themselves after a few subs and rallied back to take the lead in the final minute of Q1, 15-19.
Q2 started solidly with Dawid Pisarcyzk opening his tally from the line, and Andy Foster playing strong underneath to close the gap 23-21 before the Storm showed their class. Whilst their buckets dropped, ours rattled out. We continued to play solid and had good looks, kept hold of the ball and played sensible basketball. But it just didnt drop and Storm had a 18pt lead at the half, 41-23.
Harry Midgley, Christian Thomarel and Luca Murawski played solid defence under the basket, dropping to help and collapsing on the formidable 6'8" Karl Readhead and making him work for his points. At the other end the guards were worked hard, Kelvin guarded tight by previous Seahawk, Nathan Wickens, and Rhys Cherrett added the injection of pace down the wings and opened his account, including a triple.
Q3 was even scoring for the majority, until the last minute when they grabbed 3 quick baskets unanswered and had a 35-62 lead.
Props to the guys, for never stopping and keep pushing until the buzzer, even though the game was put to bed. Kelvin working through an elbow injury, Rhys literally giving his blood for the team. Harry and Christian playing big underneath with rebounds and put backs. Against a strong Storm team, with National League experience the Seahawks did all they could, and the final 50-90 scoreline doesn't reflect the attitude and effort shown.
Storm players were enthusiastic to give their praise for the young Seahawks saying "it was a great game, you pushed us hard, and it won't be long before youre winning games" and "You have some great kids there, with some experience you're going to be a solid team". Director of Sport, Richard Harrison-Poole added "That was Awesome!! Love the Seahawks!!"
Coach Mills: "The lads did, you, me, the school and themselves proud tonight. What a performance for a first game. Really liked our positive mentality and everyone contributing at both ends"
After some discussion they nominated Harry Midgley as their player of the game, for giving everything he had against Karl. Congrats Harry.
[Scorers: Kelvin 9, Toby 8, Olly 6, Andy 6, Rhys 6, Dawid 5, Harry 4, Mason 3, Chris 3 ]
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