Flames meet Raiders, Royals clash with Jets

Top ranked Victory Valley Royals will take on Amelia’s Ward Jets while the Block 22 Flames face Retrieve Raiders as semi-final action in the Kevin ‘2Feet’ Joseph / Team 13 Under 23 gets going tomorrow (Thursday) evening at the Amelia’s Ward Hard Court.
The Royals remained unbeaten as they gained a 69-55 win over Central Mackenzie Kings last Saturday night in the final game of the round robin play of the tournament, while Retrieve Raiders defeated the Amelia’s Ward Jets, 59-51, earlier that evening.

In that win for the Royals Kobe Tappin netted 24 points and the next best scorer was Godwyn George with nine points while Joe Warner had a top score of 11 points for the Kings.
Shemar Savoury with 26 game high points emerged as the best player for the Raiders as teammate Damian Vincente added nine.
For the jets Joel Benjamin with 14 points and Stephan George 12 were their best players.

In the first semifinal at 18.30 hours the Flames will meet Retrieve Raiders in what should be an interesting affair seeing that Flames won via walkover in the preliminary round.
The other semifinal at 20.30 hours. will see Royals after gaining a 42-39 win over Jets, seeking to have a similar winning result against the home team come tomorrow night. (Joe Chapman).