Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter
WHILE MANY a St. George's Slayers fan found it difficult to breathe with their hearts in their throats in Sunday's elimination game against the Denham Town Wizards, their coach Winston Harvey was confident that his team would have made it to game three.
EVENTUAL TRIUMPH
"I thought we were going to make it, this team has almost become known for that, it's been like that in every game that we have played in the last four or five games," a relieved-looking Harvey, who saw his team eventually triumph 76-71, explained at the National Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday.
"Against Link Up, we have found ourselves down by as much as 15 points. In basketball, five minutes is a lot of time and we had 10," he added confidently.
With the team down 47-39 headed into the final stanza, many of the Slayers faithfuls squirmed in their seats.
In fact, the Slayers, who trailed for most of the game, did not grab the lead until the five-minute mark when they went up 56-55 on a Kali McCarthy basket.
Denham Town have bigger concerns as their leading scorer and rebounder, Anthony Farquharson, went down on a rolled ankle early in the third quarter and did not return.
"When Farquharson got injured it really broke the momentum for everyone, we tried to get them to keep up the intensity, but it just wasn't the same after that," Denham Town's coach Wayne Bartley admitted
He said if Farquharson is unable to play in tomorrow's encounter, the prospect of winning game three would be daunting.
STILL ELATED
In the meantime Knights, who await the winners of Wednesday's do-or-die encounter, continue to be elated at the fact that they put away Tivoli All-Stars in just two games.
"We haven't given the team a chance to relax because we fell short of a mark of 20 wins for the season. So there hasn't been any lay-off and our consistent work ethic has really paid off," said Knights assistant coach Maurice Gordon, who saw his team wrap-up the series with Sunday's 93-78 win.
