TRADE’ A HARD ONE TO SUBDUE

Tradehouse Central Ballincollig should be big favourites to beat Moycullen today after last Sunday’s victory at home to Garvey’s Tralee, although they picked up a few injuries.

But the coaching team of Kieran O’Sullivan and Ciaran O’Sullivan will be taking no chances

“Moycullen are always competitive. Our talisman Ciaran O’Sullivan suffered a knock late in Sunday’s game.

“He heads up Basketball Ireland’s development team having also coached with Blue Demons and that mental fortitude comes through especially late in games,” said Kieran.

Belfast Star against DBS Eanna has the makings of a super game in Belfast and could go either way.

“There is a real scramble for playoff spots in the Northern Conference,” explained Belfast coach Adrian Fulton.

Tough

“We have put ourselves in a pretty good position with four wins in a row but we have a very tough finish, starting with back to back games against the top team in the conference.

“They are talented and have great depth so we will need to continue to improve to maintain our good run”

Garvey’s Tralee Warriors shared the spoils with Ballincollig last week and tonight face NUIG Maree.

Elsewhere, Team 360 Financial Killorglin against C&S Neptune will be an interesting game, while Bright DCU Saints meet Killester for the second time in a couple of days.

Killester won Thursday’s game 88-67.

In the MissQuote. ie Women’s Super League the game of the weekend could be the clash of DCU Mercy and Leixlip Amenities Liffey Celtics.

Both sides had good wins last weekend.

“It’s very difficult to play at DCU against Mark Ingle and we don’t expect anything different tomorrow,” said coach Ioannis Liapakis .

“We are really looking forward to the game and we must be very well prepared mentally and physically.”

In the other games Killester go to Trinity Meteors and Fr Mathews host IT Carlow.