Sheffield Hatters claimed a domestic quadruple, defeating Caledonia Gladiators 73-66 in the Super League Basketball play-off final at the O2 Arena.<\/p>\n
Having won the SLB Trophy, Cup and Championship title this season, the Hatters dominated from the first whistle.<\/p>\n
Antoinette Lewis scored nine first-quarter points as the Gladiators struggled to get into attacking zones, being too often forced to shoot from beyond the three-point line.<\/p>\n
The game opened up in the second quarter, but frustration built for the Gladiators as Sheffield increased their lead to 14 thanks to scores from Jess Eadsforth-Yates and Nina Krisper.<\/p>\n
The Gladiators were hurt by conceding 17 turnovers in the first half and tried to move the ball more quickly after the half-time interval, but a lack of accuracy and tenacious Hatters’ defence helped the Yorkshire team to pull away from their opponents.<\/p>\n
League MVP Megan Mullings was a constant thorn in the Gladiators’ side, breaking up multiple attacks before scoring herself to increase the lead to 17 points.<\/p>\n
But in a highly entertaining final quarter the Gladiators struck back.<\/p>\n
Following a flurry of baskets from Tess Amundsen and Anastasia Warren, they came within three points of their opponents with two minutes remaining, but the Hatters held on for victory to cap a historic season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Hatters claimed a domestic quadruple, defeating Caledonia Gladiators 73-66 in the Super League Basketball play-off final at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-677270","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\/677270","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=677270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}