Ogedengbe leads Scorchers to victory over Gladiators with three-point masterclass

BBL Championship
Surrey Scorchers  99 – 92 Caledonia Gladiators (35-19, 18-21, 20-25, 26-27)
(Scorchers – McFolley 25, Wang 25, Ogedengbe 25; Gladiators – Durham 16, Sloan 15, Onwas 13)

In tonight’s BBL motion, the Caledonia Gladiators made the 420-mile journey all the way down to Guildford to face off in opposition to the Surrey Scorchers in a really shut match-up that noticed the house facet come out on high 99-92.

Josh McFolley, Padiet Wang and Tayo Ogedengbe all led the Scorchers with 25 factors in an offensive masterclass.

Aljami Durham led the Gladiators with 16 factors, adopted by David Sloan with 15.

The sport began with Surrey coming blistering scorching out of the gates and dashing to an 8-0 run within the first 90 seconds, off the again of two three pointers.

Only a minute later, Wang transformed on one other triple, taking his workforce’s complete to three/3 and the rating to 13-5.

Led by their tenacious defence, the hosts continued to placed on a present offensively.

This time it was two monster dunks by Shakem Johnson – first with only one hand after which with two arms off Wang’s help – making it 22-14.

Two extra triples by the Scorchers, first by Ogedengbe after which by Wang, took the workforce’s complete to five/5 and the result in double digits for the primary time (28-16), two-and-a-half minutes earlier than the tip of the primary quarter.

An unbelievable first 10 minutes for the house facet was topped off by yet one more three, this time by Josh Metal who beat the buzzer to make it 6/6 from downtown (35-19).

The second quarter began very in a different way, with Caledonia displaying their intentions from the off – with Princeton Onwas stealing the ball on the primary possession and changing the layup.

The Scorchers weren’t completed with their three-point bombardment nevertheless, this time with McFolley changing from behind the arc and growing the result in its highest margin of 15 (38-23).

The Gladiators weren’t simply going to roll over and went on an 8-0 run to shut the hole to seven factors (38-31), when Fahro Alihodzic made two consecutive layups.

McFolley – who has been a monster on the offensive finish ever since he signed for Surrey – confirmed off his silky strikes by weaving out and in of the defence, to provide his workforce some a lot wanted factors to increase the lead again as much as 9 (42-33).

The American guard then danced by way of the defence as soon as once more for an additional layup, earlier than a triple by Wang on the following play introduced the lead above double digits as soon as extra (49-37).

Surrey simply gave the impression to be having a kind of days the place every part drops for them, exemplified completely by Ogedengbe’s triple a minute earlier than halftime, when on the finish of the shot clock the ball bounced off his leg however he nonetheless managed to empty it.

A 3 by Onwas concluded the primary half with the hosts forward 53-40.

The third interval began identical to the second, with the Gladiators stealing the ball and ending with a layup.

The 2 groups then proceeded to change buckets for the following 5 minutes, till Ogedengbe hit one other three, to increase the Scorchers’ lead again as much as 15 (66-51).

The Surrey captain hit his fourth triple of the sport only a minute later, when Kyle Carey collected the offensive board and located him open within the nook, with the Surrey lead now reaching a game-high 16 factors (69-53).

The house facet weren’t the one ones making threes, with Caledonia additionally hitting their pictures from behind the 6.75m line, this time with Kyle Jimenez, to convey the distinction all the way down to 10 (73-63).

The Scots managed to go on a 7-0 run to start out the fourth quarter and turned the competition it right into a one-point sport (73-72), when Fraser Malcolm transformed from downtown, with eight minutes left.

A 3 by Ogedengbe in reply gave some a lot wanted respiration room to the Scorchers (76-72).

The 2 groups then had a shoot-out, with either side scoring two every (85-80), Jimenez and Malcolm for Caledonia and Ogedengbe for each of Surrey’s – in what can solely be described as Steph Curry-like numbers, capturing 7/9 from behind the arc.

As the sport was winding to an in depth, the Gladiators managed to show it right into a one-possession sport as soon as extra, when Durham related from three (93-90) with 100 seconds left.

Over the following 80 seconds, the 2 sides failed to attain, with Caledonia having possession of the ball on the Scorchers’ baseline with 15 seconds left.

As Patrick Tape went for the layup, he was blocked by Johnson, earlier than McFolley transformed the large open layup on the quick break down the opposite finish of the court docket, successfully calling sport with 10 seconds left and the rating 95-90.

With this dub the Scorchers transfer to 3-23, whereas the Gladiators drop to 13-11.

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