The Army Women saw off defending champions the Royal Air Force in a dramatic showdown in Aldershot to lift the inter services title.<\/p>\n
A sensational three-pointer by the Army’s Evangeline Davies with the last play of the match helped the Army win 39-37.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a tight tussle saw the Army edge the opening quarter 9-5, and they were still keeping their Air Force rivals at bay at halftime but only just at 20-19.<\/p>\n
The airwomen, who were chasing a fifth successive crown, overhauled their hosts in the third quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2025 tournament’s MVP (most valuable player) Steph Cornell was at the heart of the light blues’ comeback.<\/p>\n
A dogged display from the Army meant the Air Force never moved too far in front on the points board.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the lead changing hands throughout the fourth and final quarter, the difference was 36-37 in favour of the RAF.<\/p>\n
With just seconds of the contest remaining, up stepped Davies and the young Oxford based Officer Cadet sent home her third three-pointer of the match to kick start wild courtside celebrations by the Army contingent.<\/p>\n
Following her title winning performance, Davies said: “I got a few three-pointers in the game, and then the pressure was on to lay down that final shot today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think it’s great. I think women’s basketball is really in the rise and for us to get that win today, it’s really good.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the deciding game in the men’s competition was straightforward in comparison.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once in front, the Army never looked back, going on to win 85-78 and retain the title.<\/p>\n
St Vincent and Grenadine international Glasgow Douglas was in fine form as he helped spearhead his side to victory.<\/p>\n
The Army took control of the match during the middle of the contest, and they pushed 71-54 in front in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
A spirited Air Force fightback saw the Light Blues reel in the Army thanks to an eye-catching display from the airmen’s Billy Cousins.<\/p>\n
Army captain Murray Ferris rallied his troops during a time out and they saw out the match to record back-to-back titles and clinch an impressive Army double.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Army skipper Staff Sergeant Murray said: “We were a bit lackadaisical, I would say, but we need to turn back up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s our home, we can’t lose at our home, so we were not going let that happen. It’s my first year as captain, and it means a lot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Army Women saw off defending champions the Royal Air Force in a dramatic showdown in Aldershot to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-665917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}