Dynamos Out-Last Nuggets
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Needing someone to step up on the road, Link Abrams and Damon Rampton were on hand for Devon Dynamos Taranaki.
Abrams recorded a double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds, while Rampton had 16 points as Taranaki escaped Dunedin with an 84-73 win over the Cartridge World Otago Nuggets in round five of the Dominion Finance NBL at the Edgar Centre on Friday night.
Leading 63-60 with a period to play, Abrams and Rampton combined for 13 of Taranaki’s 21 fourth quarter points, whirring the Dynamos to victory in game one of their South Island double-header.
Abrams shot 8-of-11 from the field and blocked an NBL season-high five shots, including two in the fourth.
Five players scored in double figures for Taranaki, import Keith Salscheider held to 15 points after having double-digit points at halftime, while Ben Jeffrey added 15 points and four assists, and Tony Rampton 12, following a slow start.
American import tandem, Lemar Gayle and Jay Anderson, shared a game-high 24 points for the Nuggets but the offensive supporting cast was lacking, Nat Connell the next best with seven points.
Gayle added nine rebounds, three assists and four steals while Anderson, who shot six-of-seven from the perimeter, added eight rebounds and two steals to his stat-line. The Nuggets shot a poor 36 percent from the field.
In a game of streaks, Otago led 14-5 early as Anderson had 11 points inside five minutes.
After Otago took a 29-19 at the 6:41 mark of the second quarter, Taranaki point guard Jeffrey drew a technical foul and the Dynamos sparked into action, out-scoring the Nuggets 23-8 to take a five-point lead into halftime as Jason Greig and Brent Charleton both collected their third fouls.
Taranaki led by as many as eight points in the third quarter but the teams traded the lead six times in the closing minutes of the period. The Nuggets got within three points early in the fourth on Anderson’s sixth three but their shooting touch went cold again.
The Dynamos face the Marley Canterbury Rams tomorrow night in Christchurch on a busy Saturday night in the NBL, the unbeaten Waikato Pistons traveling to the Appliance Shed Harbour Heat in the matinee and the Youthtown Auckland Stars and CPS Nelson Giants meeting in the nightcap.
At The Edgar Centre, Dunedin
Devon Dynamos Taranaki 84 (Link Abrams 21, Damon Rampton 16, Keith Salscheider 15, Ben Jeffrey 15, Tony Rampton 12) Cartridge World Otago Nuggets 73 (Lemar Gayle 24, Jay Anderson 24). HT: 42-37
Nuggets vs Dynamos Box Score (22KB html)
