Illawarra Hawks @ South East Melbourne Phoenix

Series tied 1-1

Illawarra HawksHawksHWK

20-9

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Hawks HWK	24	23	21	26	94
Phoenix PNX	24	27	15	35	101

South East Melbourne PhoenixPhoenixPNX

16-13

101

16-13

Illawarra Hawks

starters
Sam FrolingS. Froling #13
Wani Swaka Lo BulukW. Swaka Lo Buluk #9
Mason PeatlingM. Peatling #22
Trey KellT. Kell #3
Tyler HarveyT. Harvey #1
bench
Lachlan OlbrichL. Olbrich #30
Darius DaysD. Days #0
Daniel GridaD. Grida #11
Todd BlanchfieldT. Blanchfield #21
William HickeyW. Hickey #6
Hyunjung LeeH. Lee #2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
20	11	5-7	0-0	1-2	5	0	3	0	0	4	1	2	-6
17	4	2-8	0-2	0-0	4	0	0	1	0	2	2	2	-8
15	8	3-5	0-1	2-2	6	0	1	0	0	1	5	3	+2
35	6	1-10	0-6	4-6	8	6	5	2	0	0	8	1	-16
26	10	3-13	1-7	3-3	1	4	1	1	0	0	1	5	-6
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
12	6	3-6	0-0	0-2	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	-5
13	8	2-5	1-1	3-3	5	0	0	1	0	1	4	4	+4
11	8	4-7	0-0	0-1	6	0	0	2	0	3	3	1	+7
19	6	2-5	2-4	0-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	-16
20	19	8-14	1-3	2-4	6	4	2	0	0	3	3	4	+3
14	8	2-4	2-4	2-4	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	+6
	94	35-84	7-28	17-29	45	15	13	8	0	16	29	25
		42%	25%	59%

South East Melbourne Phoenix

starters
Jordan HunterJ. Hunter #1
Matt HurtM. Hurt #22
Joe WieskampJ. Wieskamp #21
Derrick Walton JrD. Walton Jr #11
Nathan SobeyN. Sobey #20
bench
Malique LewisM. Lewis #33
Thomas VodanovichT. Vodanovich #15
Majok MajokM. Majok #24
Luke RosendaleL. Rosendale #13
Owen FoxwellO. Foxwell #30
Angus GloverA. Glover #5
Ben AyreB. Ayre #10
Matt KenyonM. Kenyon #2
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
23	6	3-5	0-1	0-0	9	1	1	1	1	4	5	4	+9
37	30	11-19	4-7	4-6	1	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	+4
36	9	3-10	1-4	2-2	7	1	2	2	0	1	6	3	+14
22	5	1-9	0-2	3-4	6	1	2	0	0	0	6	2	+7
27	25	9-21	2-7	5-5	7	2	3	2	0	0	7	4	+11
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	-4
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	10	3-8	0-3	4-4	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	-3
24	16	4-8	2-4	6-6	5	5	1	1	0	3	2	1	+3
--	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	-6
	101	34-80	9-28	24-27	41	12	12	8	3	10	31	22
		43%	32%	89%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

HWK

Series tied

1-1

PNX

101

Game 1@ HWK

Final

Game 2@ PNX

Final

101

126

Game 3@ HWK

Final

Game Information

Melbourne, VIC

	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
Sydney	24	9	.727	-	W11
Adelaide	23	10	.697	1	L1
South East Melbourne	22	11	.667	2	L1
Perth	21	12	.636	3	W1
Melbourne	20	13	.606	4	W1
Tasmania	14	19	.424	10	L2
New Zealand	13	20	.394	11	W1
Illawarra	13	20	.394	11	W2
Cairns	9	24	.273	15	L2
Brisbane	6	27	.182	18	L13

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