A blockbuster preliminary season has drawn to a close for women’s division one Waratah League minor premiership winners Wagga Blaze.
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Wagga went out with a bang, defeating Hawkesbury 110 to 55 in the team’s highest-scoring game of the season on Saturday.
“It was a good win, it was good to play some of our new stuff we were waiting for finals to play,” coach Jason Maskell said.
“Our defense worked well, our offense worked extremely well, we’re all primed up for finals.”
Wagga achieved the monster win with just six players, as Abbey Morton and Kristen Rava were out due to injury and Brooke Walsh was unavailable.
Through the season the team worked as a unit to lead the competition and as a by-product of their success, US import Saadia Doyle and Prue Walsh have been recognised for outstanding individual achievements.
After attaining her highest score of the season, 49 points, Doyle has ended on top of the league in three individual categories; highest point-scorer, total match points and total two-pointers made. Doyle averaged 29.8 points, just above Bathurst’s Teagan Burke on 28.9. She scored a total of 387 points, more than 100 points higher than her closest rival Kate Denyer from Shoalhaven, on 272. Most of her successful shots were two-pointers (139) well above second-placed Taylah Cottees from Hawkesbury on 87.
Walsh scored seven three-pointers on Saturday, and took home the prize for the most three-pointers scored in the season, on 38, pipping Coffs Harbour’s Siarn Woods who finished on 37.
Wagga has a three-week intensive training period before finals start on August 13.