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BBC News
18-05-2025
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Hatters beat Wolves in Women's Super League play-off final
Sheffield Hatters held off a late fightback by Oaklands Wolves to win the Women's Super League play-off final 83-73 in Hatters had led by 14 with less than a minute remaining but seven points in 24 seconds, including five in nine seconds from Oaklands' Sam Ashby, set up a tense finale at the O2 then missed two out of three free throws and the opportunity to reduce the deficit from nine to six points with 11 seconds left on the the other end, Tyia Singleton held her nerve to sink two from the free-throw line and wrap up the victory for Sheffield with a 10-point margin, and seal the club's first league play-off win in 10 years. Sheffield recover from slow start to claim trophy Oaklands Wolves came into the game having finished top of the league and having beaten the Hatters, who ended the season in second, home and away during the regular was the table toppers who made the stronger start and looked like they might end their wait for their first league play-off win. The Hertfordshire side raced into an eight-point lead before the Hatters were able to get on the board and took a 10-point advantage into the break after the opening lead stretched to 12 midway through the second period but 12 unanswered points from the Hatters put the sides level 32-32 at took the lead for the first time in the match through Singleton's lay-up early in the third quarter, before both sides scored a flurry of points as the game opened Walker netted four free throws in the final minute of the quarter to turn the match in Sheffield's favour with an eight-point advantage going into the final 10 minutes.A long-range jump shot from Georgia Gayle, named the final's Most Valuable Player, gave the Hatters a 12-point cushion with eight minutes of the tie remaining, before the game's 23-point top scorer Ashby inspired Wolves' late fightback at the end of a thrilling game.
BBC News
10-03-2025
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Wolves win first trophy in SLB Cup women's final
Oaklands Wolves are celebrating after winning their first piece of silverware by beating Sheffield Hatters in the Super League Basketball Cup women's St Albans-based team, who were formed in 2009 and first entered the British Basketball League - now SLB - seven years later, triumphed 65-51 in Sunday's final in Ashby was named MVP after scoring 12 points as head coach Lee Ryan's side made up for the disappointment of losing to Caledonia Gladiators in the SLB Betty Codona Trophy final in January."I think we deserved that win but to really prove how we can play and be as a team, that felt amazing," Ashby told DAZN Sport."We knew Sheffield are a good team and we would have to have high intensity to stop them from scoring and that's what we did. Wolves led 21-11 after the first quarter, and after Hatters cut the deficit to just six points at the half-way stage, pulled away in the they were outscored 10-7 in the final quarter, they held on for victory "We are well rounded as a team and really showed that with multiple people getting on the scoreboard - even on the bench everyone was so locked in from the beginning," said guard Shanice Beckford-Norton."This week, we just had to revisit who we are. Lee pointed out everyone's strengths and that's all we had to bring. Instead of everyone trying to do everyone, they were just doing what they're best at, which is why we got the win." The Hatters - who lost 79-72 to Wolves in an SLB Championship meeting in December - had been hoping to win their first trophy since winning the 2019 WBBL Cup head coach Vanessa Ellis told BBC Radio Sheffield that her team had never really got into the game."I'm really disappointed in how we played. Credit to Oakland, they made it tough for us, but we've got to be able to adjust and adapt."She added: "We worked on a lot of things in training - I don't know if it was the occasion, for a lot of these it was the first time in a big final and it's different environment - and we've just got to learn from defeat and move on." The two sides will meet again in the Championship at Oaklands College on 30 March.
