South Recap | Round 3 Saturday

North West Tasmania Thunder (85) defeated Kilsyth Cobras (84)

Kye Savage has long been earmarked as one of Australian basketball's brightest young talent and he offered a true glimpse into that hitting the game-winning three-point bomb for the North West Tasmania Thunder over the Kilsyth Cobras.

With both the Thunder and Cobras having also played on Friday night with North West Tasmania losing a tight one to the Ballarat Miners while Kilsyth also went down by 12 points to the Hobart Chargers.

With both teams determined to avoid a double loss weekend, it was the Thunder on their home floor at Elphin Sports Stadium who got the better of the start with 27 points to 19.

Kilsyth were able to respond in the second term with 22 points to 16 and that cut the North West lead to 43-41 by the half-time interval.

The Thunder did push out to a game-high 10-point lead in the third quarter but the Cobras weren’t going away with a couple of Corey Jeffs three balls in the fourth term keeping the visitors in touch.

Then with time running out, Dillon Stith completed a three-point play to give Kilsyth the one-point lead before they forced the Thunder into a turnover and Adrian Tomada made one subsequently at the foul line to make it a two-point lead.

North West Tasmania still had one last possession and it got to Kye Savage and the Brisbane Bullets NBL development player came up huge coolly knocking down the walk off game winning three-pointer.

That gave the Thunder the 85-84 victory with some wild celebrations for a second win of the season with Savage finishing the night with 21 points on 9/14 shooting including that walk off winner.

Lachlan Barker added 17 points and two assists, Archie Woodhill 15 points and eight boards, Tre Armstrong 11 points and six rebounds, and Tyler Harris seven points, 11 boards, four assists and two steals.

It's a heartbreaking way for Kilsyth to go 0-2 on the weekend in Tasmania with Adrian Tomada top-scoring with 17 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals.

Macauley Haig added 13 points, Hamish MacDonald 13 points and 10 rebounds, Dillon Stith 13 points, four boards and two steals, and Corey Jeffs 13 points, five assists and four rebounds on 3/6 three-point shooting.

NORTH WEST TASMANIA THUNDER 85 (Savage 21, Barker 17, Woodhill 15)

KILSYTH COBRAS 84 (Tomada 17, Haig 13, MacDonald 13, Stith 13, Jeffs 13)

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Launceston Tornadoes (65) lost to Kilsyth Cobras (71)

That elusive first win of the season still eludes the Launceston Tornadoes with the Kilsyth Cobras making it a perfect weekend in Tasmania with the 71-65 win on Saturday night.

Both teams opened their double-header weekends on Friday night with Launceston going down to the Ballarat Miners while the Cobras scored their first win of the season defeating the Hobart Chargers.

They were back in action against one another at Elphin Sports Stadium with Kilsyth continuing on with the momentum from the previous night to build a double-figure lead in the first quarter.

The Cobras were still on top 23-14 by quarter-time before extending that advantage to 14 in the second term and going into half-time on top 44-32.

Kilsyth managed to maintain a double-digit lead through most of the second half as well and ended up scoring the six-point victory to improve to a 2-3 record on the season after the two Tasmania wins in the space of 24 hours.

Abby O'Connor delivered 22 points and eight rebounds in the win for Kilsyth with Paige Price adding 14 points and nine boards, Nikita Young 10 points, three rebounds and three steals, and Shannon Dufficy six points, 15 boards and four assists.

Launceston is now 0-5 on the season and again dearly missed the presence of Keely Froling with Megan Mullings finishing with 20 points, eight rebounds, three steals, two assists and two blocked shots.

Bailey Flavell added 16 points and three assists, and Sarah O'Neill 10 points, 14 boards, five assists and three steals.

LAUNCESTON TORNADOES 65 (Mullings 20, Flavell 16, O'Neill 10)

KILSYTH COBRAS 71 (O'Connor 22, Price 14, Young 10)