Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024
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The Sunshine Coast Lightning have survived a massive scare to hold on to a nail-biting 56-54 win over the Adelaide Thunderbirds at a sold-out Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

The Lightning won the first three quarters on Saturday night and looked set for a landslide triumph when they motored ahead by 13 with less than five minutes remaining, before narrowly seeing off the Thunderbirds’ spirited 12-1 charge to the finish line.

Adelaide would have moved into top spot with a victory but the Thunderbirds instead find themselves out of form, having lost three of their past four, and in danger of forgoing the finals double-chance if they fall out of the top two.

Lightning midcourt duo Mahalia Cassidy and Laura Scherian were threats all evening, while captain Steph Wood and Cara Koenen took turns in troubling the Thunderbirds defence.

“We’ve really developed over the season,” Cassidy said.

“We kind of treated this like our first final and next week (against Queensland Firebirds) is our ‘final final’.

“The last five minutes were a bit shaky.

“We were really happy to get the job done.”

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