A grand last Most worthy participant efficiency from Olympians’ Ashlee Sidebottom, mixed with the shutdown of Saints’ season MVP Kiriana Hawaikirangi, have been key storylines within the boilover victory of Olympians on Saturday evening.
Twelve months on from being denied the Kalgoorlie-Basketball Affiliation girls’s division one title when the finals have been referred to as off due to COVID-19, Olympians grabbed the spoils within the 2022-23 grand last at Niels Hansen Stadium.
Saints had dominated the common season, profitable 13 matches to Olympians’ eight, and have been comfortably victorious within the qualifying last between the 2 groups on March 17 by 74-56.
However Olympians confirmed they have been as much as the problem within the season finale, ending the primary quarter behind solely 15-14, after which edging the second time period 12-Eight to move into the half-time break main 26-23.
The sport remained tight within the third quarter — Saints taking it out by 14-12 to get inside one level at three-quarter time, 38-37.
The sport got here down within the last quarter to whichever staff might dig deep and grind out the win — and that turned out to be the Olympians, who received the quarter 16-Eight to seize the season’s title.
Sidebottom collected 17 factors, and gained nice help from Zaleema Bourne (16 factors) and Talisia Bourne (11 factors).
Lawrin Tipene scored a game-high 18 factors for Saints, and Elena Scafidi racked up 16.
However Hawaikirangi, the season’s most-prolific factors scorer with 291 throughout 17 video games, was restricted within the grand last to only three factors.
