It's Hell For Hull As Devils Win In Overtime!

Last time out, Hull Wasps had a painful defeat to the Team Durham Wildcasts, at the time it was one of their most painful defeats of the season. It's likley that that defeat is now not the most painful defeat of the season as on Sunday Chris McKenna's men lost to the Bury Blue Devils in the second period of Overtime. Yes amazingly it took not one, but two periods of overtime to settle an amazing contest between the sides with the Devils coming out triumphant.

It was a neck-and-neck contest the whole way through, starting with the first quarter. Both sides scored all of their points inside the key or from the line to end the first period 21-22 to the visitors. It was much of the same for the second quarter with both sides scoring 17 points each to go in at half time 38-39. The third quarter saw the home side battle ahead and open up a 6 point advantage over their rivals and that continued into the final quarter which saw the Wasps as much as 10 points ahead before the Blue Devils gradually fought their way back to a nail-biting finish and tie the contest at 70-70. Bury's No. 11 Burns had the chance to give them the lead in the final minute of normal time but only scored 1 of his 2 free throws.

A 5-minute period of overtime was required. Hull fell behind almost immediately after Bury knocked down 5 points without reply, but the Wasps showed their character and resolve by fighting their way back into it and both sides finished the first overtime period tied at 78 points. This time, Wasps captain Jamie Goodwin had the chance to win the contest in the final minute, once again from the line, after being fouled while scoring inside the key. Goodwin unfortunately missed the free-throw and forced another extremely tense period of overtime.

Once again, Bury came out an immediately took the lead and 2 consecutive 3-pointers seemed to knock any final comeback efforts out of the Wasps and Bury took the game 91-100 - without question, the most exciting and tense game of the season so far. In fact it was probably one of the most exciting games of Basketball played in the UK in the last couple of years, yet alone at the Gemtec Arena.

It was a game that was well worth it's £4 price to get in! Hull's star players were centre's Jamie Goodwin and Michael Kucmierczyk who both scored 13 points each. Burns top scored for the visitors with 24 points. There will be More from the Wasps next week when we'll find out how they get on at home againgst the Tee Valley Sonics!