NBLC Recap: December 18th and 19th
All that happened in a double header on the east coast and a back-and-forth encounter in Ontario over two game days in the NBL Canada.
The Mile One Centre saw two match-ups between the Sudbury Five and the St. John's Edge in as many nights. On Tuesday, six Sudbury players scored in double digits, and the following night the team saw 36 points off the bench from Grandy Glaze. For the Edge, eight of their ten players scored ten-plus points on Tuesday, one being Desmond Lee, who had two consecutive twenty-plus point performances.
With the better offence and bench production both nights, St. John’s came away with two big wins over Sudbury. The Edge's record now improves to 6-5, one win behind the Central Division leaders Sudbury, whose position at the top is now weaker after two straight losses.
Mike Poole and Joel Kindred opened a rampant scoring performance for the Halifax Hurricanes, where they put up 38 points in the first quarter against the Windsor Express. Windsor fought just to stay in contention and then, behind an amazing show from Horace Wormely in the third, they went into the lead. Wormely finished with a team-high 24 points for Windsor.
Down eight in the fourth Halifax did not panic, and with good, consistent looks from Jordan Washington inside and Joel Kindred outside, they re-took control and ran out to a 127-116. The Hurricanes' trio of Kindred, Poole and Washington all scored over twenty points in this one, with Kindred leading everyone on the floor with 27.
