South Adelaide Men Too Tall for Tigers

Southern Tigers (65) lost to South Adelaide Panthers (86)

A huge win for the South Adelaide Panthers on the road has snuck them into the Top 5, as the Southern Tigers were defeated by 21 points on Saturday night.
 
Shane Boal lead the Panthers all night with an outstanding 25-point performance, alongside South Adelaide’s unstoppable 213cm giant, Bradley Reid, as he scored 19 points, 8 rebounds and 3 blocks.
                                                                 
The Panthers took the lead from the very start, beginning the match with a 16-5 run, before blowing out the lead to 21 points at quarter time (30-9). The Tigers couldn’t find any answers for the height they were up against, struggling to score and keep up with the Panthers' tempo.
 
The Tigers managed to find a few of those answers late in the second quarter, but the Panthers still outscored them, stretching the lead well out to 24 points. Boal and Reid were doing the most damage, scoring 30 of the Panthers’ total 51 points for the half.
 
The game opened up dramatically, as the match began to look much more free-flowing after a very heated and intense first half. South Adelaide came firing out of the blocks in the second half, extending themselves out to a 31 point buffer and keeping it that way until the end of the third quarter.
 
However the high intensity ball-game returned in the fourth quarter, as Scott O’Connor helped the Tigers pull the deficit back to 23 points. They kept at it right up until the end, but the result was always inevitable and the Panthers ran away with a 21 point victory.
 
Codey Ellison gave his best for the Tigers for 38 minutes with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
 
With two losses on the trot for the Tigers, their record is dragged down to 3-2, as they slide down to fourth place on the ladder. While the Panthers look to continue their dominant form against Norwood next week at home, they’ll be keen to up their streak to four wins in a row.

By Sam Tugwell

Top Scorers Southern
Codey Ellison 15
Timothy Smyth 12
Craig Catford 9
Top Scorers South Adelaide
Shane Boal 25
Bradley Reid 19
Jordan Robertson 12




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