The Endeavour Ipswich Basketball Club Senior Women moved to 7-3 in WNBL Division One, with one of their best performances of the season against the Bristol Flyers on Sunday. The team connected on an amazing 21 three pointers, with captain Harriet Welham enjoying her best game of the season with an incredible 38-point, seventeen rebound double-double, leading to a 104-71 victory for the Suffolk side.
The game was the teams last in Division One action this side of Christmas, with the team now turning their attention to this coming Sunday’s National Cup, on the road to a very talented Loughborough Riders team.
Ipswich are the reining WNBL Division One league championships, as well as the national cup holders – and despite something of a roster overhaul that has seen five of Head Coach Nick Drane’s seven leading players from last season move on, this new look Ipswich team enter the final weekend of 2024 in fine form.
The Bristol game saw further evidence that this new group is building some excellent chemistry, with Maddy Wormald firmly established as a key senior player on the team and Maisie Keyes in excellent form as the teams point guard. It was also yet another first class performance from Louisa Gibbins, who has established herself as one of the leagues best interior players, while Cerys Leach and DeAnna Carrington continue to show their quality at senior level. Meanwhile, four-time National Player of the Year, Harriet Welham, won her first WNBL ‘Player of the Week’ award as a consequence of her performance against Bristol.
Ipswich travel to Loughborough on Sunday for their final game of 2024, in the hope that they will have another national final to look forward to in January.
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