VS PRELIMINARY FINAL GO TORNS!! HALF TIME Saturday, Aug 11 SHOOT OUT TIP OFF - 6.30PM WORTH Program proudly printed by Designed by $700 THIS WEEK NAMING RIGHTS SPONSOR MAJOR PARTNERS Proudly Independent SUPPORTING PARTNERS MEDIA PARTNERS Coach Washington’s Wrap Hello Torns fans, I just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for your tremendous support of our team this year. earning a top four spot out and now meet for a We hope you know how much you are appreciated and how important you have been to our success chance to play in the Championship game.(#3 during this 2018 season. It has been an amazing and Spectres & #4 Tornadoes). Vanessa Panousis #1 exciting journey, and we know you were with us every and Marena Whittle #32 have been leading scorers step of the way. for the Spectres all season. Whittle and Panousis Thankyou to everyone who has cheered us on at are looking to have a big night which will be a great Elphin Sports Stadium and stuck by us while we built match up for us. this program into a finals contender, even though it As far as our own Tornadoes, SEABL Women’s MVP was a slow start our season. Our club feels privileged Lauren Nicholson and sharp shooter Ally Wilson lead to be a part of this community with you and we are the Torns in a huge upset win against the undefeated honored to represent Launceston. And it’s because Bendigo Braves last week. Now after the week off, we of you, we have the best home court environment in the entire Women’s SEABL competition! You are are well rested and looking to carry that momentum the envy of every other club that we compete against into tonight’s sell-out game! each week. The winner of tonight’s game will go to the I also want you to know how much we appreciate Championship Game next week against either Kilsyth your phenomenal support tonight as we have a or Bendigo. “SOLD OUT” crowd taking on the Nunawading Spectres in the Preliminary Final. Go Torns! Both clubs have worked very hard this season Coach Derrick Washington. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR 2018 SPONSORS AND MEMBERS FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! Interact with us! @ltornadoes #tornadowarning TEAM LIST YOUR BELLAMY’S TORNADOES PLAYING PLAYING HEIGHT NAME AGE SPONSORED BY NUMBER POSITION (CM) 1 Lauren Nicholson Guard/Forward 180 25 Hays Recruitment 3 Zoe Mesman Forward 183 29 Sainty’s Coaches 4 Ally Wilson Guard/Forward 180 24 C&B Creative 5 Lauren Mansfield Guard 170 28 Fork Truck Specialists 7 Paige French Guard 158 18 Targetts 9 Ali Partridge Guard 172 36 Launceston Airport 10 Jess Johnston Forward 175 15 Meander Shale 11 Courtney Williams Forward 185 24 12 Emma Haywood Guard 163 27 Dev Design & Creative 14 Sophie Ackerly Guard 164 16 Chelby Mechanical Hire 15 Ishoa-Jade Cook Guard 171 34 Intersport Launceston 21 Aishah Anis Guard 165 15 The Pump Shed 22 Jayde Brazendale Centre 185 17 CSR Gyprock 30 Sam Chilcott Forward 172 26 The Pantry 34 Ellie Collins Forward 182 19 Hogs Breath Head Coach: Derrick Washington Assistant: Lisa Patterson Assitant: Mikaela Ruef Physio: Scott Beeston Manager: Jenn Heggarty www.tornadoes.com.au TEAM LIST NUNAWADING SPECTRES PLAYING PLAYING NUMBER NAME POSITION 1 Vanessa Panousis Guard 2 Rachel Antoniadou Guard 4 Keeley Frawley Guard 5 Brooke West Guard 9 Izzy Chilcott Guard 11 Sherry Glennie Centre 12 Lucy Cochrane Forward / Centre 15 Jacinta Vandenberg Centre 21 Tessa Boyd Guard 24 Jacqui Trotto Guard / Forward 32 Marena Whittle Guard / Forward 33 Hanna Zavecz Forward 34 Sarah Slater Forward Coach Paul Flynn Dev. Coach Nathan Dance Asst. Coach Grant Spencer Physio Jenni Candler Asst. Coach Hannah Lowe Don’t forget to purchase your tickets for the chance to win Casalinga Gourmet Meats MEAT TRAY RAFFLE Support the Bellamy’s Tornadoes! Interact with us! @ltornadoes #tornadowarning First Elimination Final Preview Kilsyth Sports Centre, 7.00pm Saturday, August 11 V Kilsyth PREVIOUS MEETINGS THIS YEAR Bendigo Cobras Round 9: Bendigo 87 def. Kilsyth 66 Lady Braves (16-5) @ Kilsyth Sports Centre (21-1) LEADING STATS LEADING STATS Points Blicavs 16.4 Points Payne 22.8 Rebounds Beadle 8.0 Rebounds Payne 9.4 Assists Parsons 3.1 Assists Wilson 12.0 KILSYTH FORM BENDIGO FORM Kilsyth defeated local rivals Nunawading in the Bendigo went undefeated during the regular week one’s qualifying final to earn the rest last season, but lost to Launceston in the Qualifying weekend, but will be without Steph Blicavs for the Final, forcing them to win on the road in all-important match this week due to Australian this week’s semi-final to return to the SEABL Opals World Cup Selection camp. Championship game contention. KILSYTH X-FACTOR KILSYTH X-FACTOR Angela Beadle, the 2017 League MVP has not been Ashleigh Karatiana showed last week how the dominating force this year, but she is a player she can dominate a game if left open by the that needs to be at her best this week against the opposition team. Karatiana scored her highest Braves. After a slow start to the season Angela points tally for the year with 27 points against has averaged 15.8 points per game over her Geelong. Her offensive talents will need to be last six games. But it is her defensive game that contained by the Cobras, otherwise Karatiana will impact the Cobras chances the most as she will dominate and once again guide the Braves will need to limit the Braves frontcourt of Gabe to victory. Richards and Nadeen Payne. OVERALL The loss of talented scorer Steph Blicavs for this weeks’ contest will hurt the Cobras, but coach Sam Woosnam has the luxury of having multiple players with the ability to step up and cover the scoring load. Youngsters Chelsea D’Angelo and Taylor Lee will need to be at their best against the league’s best point guard in Kelly Wilson, who is in scintillating form. Her efforts will need to be contained if the Cobras are to secure the win. Bendigo have a wealth of experience in their line-up and wealth of talent that will be hard to beat. Second Elimination Final Preview Elphin Sports Centre, 6.30pm Saturday, August 11 V Launceston PREVIOUS MEETINGS THIS YEAR Nunawading Tornadoes Round 9: Nunawading 79 def. Launceston 59 Spectres (14-7) @ Nunawading Stadium (14-8) LEADING STATS LEADING STATS Points Nicholson 25.4 Points Whittle 18.0 Rebounds Collins 9.0 Rebounds Chilcott 6.5 Assists Wilson 5.4 Assists Chilcott 2.4 TORNADOES FORM NUNAWADING FORM Finished the regular season with three consecutive Nunawading have been in the top three for the victories to steal fourth place on the ladder and entire season, opening their 2018 campaign then surprised the league by beating undefeated with a 5-2 record, but had a disappointing end ladder leaders Bendigo in the first week of finals. to the regular season dropping four of their Since adding import Courtney Williams mid-season, last five games. the Tornadoes have recorded a 6-2 record. NUNAWADING X-FACTOR TORNADOES X-FACTOR Izzy Chilcott produced a Player of the Week Lauren Nicholson, as the league leading scorer performance in the Spectres’ round nine and Most Valuable Player, is critical in this do or victory over Launceston with 23 points die game. The success of Tornadoes this year shooting at 73%, five rebounds and two assists. has largely been in part to the consistently high Chilcott will need to produce another quality standard of play Nicholson has produced each offensive performance this week but will likely week. If her efforts are contained by the Spectres need to defend Tornadoes sharp shooter Ally this week, the Tornadoes Championship hopes will Wilson at stages during the game. This will be diminished quickly. be a tough task, but Chilcott is fully capable of completing efficiently. GO TORNS!! OVERALL Launceston have surprised a lot of people this season, and have done so with Australian Opal Lauren Mansfield only playing eight games this season. Mansfield will be out of this weekends’ game due to Australian Opals Camp, but the Tornadoes have showed they can win without her numerous times this season already. Ellie Collins has had a standout season and has scored 25+ points on four occasions and could be the key player that guides Launceston to the win. Nunawading forward Marena Whittle will have other ideas as she is playing exceptional basketball and will be determined to guide her team to their first Championship game in nearly 10 years. Nicholson and Wilson take out 2018 SEABL MVP Awards Following the end of the regular season on Saturday night, the 2018 SEABL Awards were held on the rooftop of Emerson’s Hotel in Prahran. Talented youngster Tom Wilson was awarded the Most Valuable Player in his second year at Melbourne Tigers. A 3-2-1 voting system is used by referees and coaches throughout the season at the end of each game with the votes tallied at the end of the regular season to find a winner. Tom received 110 votes and held onto the award despite missing the last of Nunawading Spectres and Bendigo Lady Braves’ game of the regular season due to a tour of China Megan Moody. with the Sydney Kings. A Legend of the game as a former player and current coach, Biwer has been juggling SEABL Having earned two player of the week’s in round duties on top of being the Australian head coach 6 and 7, at the end of the season Wilson finished for the 2018 FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup.