With five weeks left in the Basketball NSW Waratah League regular season the Orange Eagles will be desperate to kick-start a winning run on the road to Bansktown on Saturday, after suffering their fifth straight defeat last weekend.
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The Eagles fell to Wagga Wagga at Sir Neville Howse Stadium last Saturday night, the visitors taking advantage of Mitch Selwood and Andrew Manios' fourth-quarter foul-outs to edge ahead in the clutch.
The eighth-placed Heat had led the ninth-placed Eagles at all of the breaks but those margins were minimal, just one point at the final break in fact, but without their playmakers the home side fell out of touch.
The Heat pulled away in that final quarter, eventually picking up an 84-76 victory, one that snapped their own three-game losing streak and was their fourth win of 2019.
Led by a 30-point showing from Matt Brunell and a 20-point game from Zacc Maloney the Heat led by just two points at the first and second breaks before the Eagles edged one point closer in the third term.
But after Selwood and Manios were forced out of the game the Heat wrestled back momentum, Brunell eventually dropping 13 of those points in the final quarter.
While Selwood contributed 16 before being fouled out Kobe Mansell was the best of the Eagles, finishing with 27 points.
The Eagles remain in ninth heading into Saturday's trip to Bankstown, above only central west rivals Dubbo.
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Matt Findlay
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
