21st Oct, 2007 SAMG Verve Scottish Rocks 80-74 Everton Tigers

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Game details:-

Venue: Braehead Arena

Competition:- BBL Championship

Tip-off:- 5.00pm

Quarterscores:- 23-14, 39-27, 55-53, 70-70

Overtime periods:- 80-74

Final result:- 80-74

Officials:- Haydn Jones, Gavin Williams, Gavin Lewis

Top Scorers:

Rocks: Hampton 22, Davis 19, Yanders 14

Tigers: Robertson 24, Haslam 21, Herriman 12

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SAMG Verve Scottish Rocks moved into joint seventh place with the Marshall MK Lions after an 80-74 overtiime victory over the Everton Tigers at the Braehead Arena on Sunday evening.

The lead changed hands five times in the final quarter, and Sterling Davis put the Rocks 70-68 in front with 34 seconds remaining, but it was Anthony Robertson who levelled the game for Everton with 12 seconds remaining, and send the game into overtime.

In the extra period, the Rocks' Maurice Hampton took control netting six points in a 9-2 run to give the Rocks the victory.

Earlier on, the Rocks had stormed out to a 39-23 lead in the second quarter off the back of an 11-1 tear.

The second half saw the visitors come back into the game, and tied it up at 53-53 off the back of a 17-4 burst towards the end of the third period before all the fireworks happened in the closing stages of the final stanza.

Hampton led the Rocks' scoring with 22 points, while Robertson led all scorers with 24 points for the Tigers.

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