The Kent Crusaders continue their revival in the England Basketball National League Division 2 with their fourth win in a row over fourth place Leicester Warriors, 62-50. It was a defensive battle where Leicester could only put 29 points on the board in the first three quarters, but made it almost all the way back in the fourth quarter.

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Updated. Kent Crusaders Men are on a three game winning streak after beating Team Northumbria in a tough defensive battle.

“It was one of those games where both teams took away what the other team does best”, said Crusaders’ head coach Mads Olesen, “In the second half it just became about who could get more stops on defence, and in the end I think our experience won out.”

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The Kent Crusaders got back to winning ways on Saturday with a 29 point victory at the previously undefeated league leaders NEWI Nets and on Sunday they beat the only winless team, University of Birmingham, by 26.

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The Men defeated league leaders and previously unbeaten NEWI 96-67 in Wrexham this evening.  JP Dimandja scored 19, Soren Sorensen 14 and Sam Betts 14.  Further details to follow.

The Under 18s also won on the road, defeating Essex and Herts Leopards 88-69.

Both teams are in action again tomorrow (Sunday) with the Under 18s playing Richmond in the National Cup at 12:30 and the Men hosting University of Birmingham at 3:00.  Both games take place at Body and Mind.

It was an eventful weekend in Division 2 with several big surprises. The Kent Crusaders men almost pulled off the come-from-behind victory at Division 2 favourites Leeds Carnegie. Down 10 with a minute to go the Crusaders set out to do an improbable come-back as they cut the lead to four with 25 seconds left, but the Kent side got hit by a couple of intentional foul calls that sealed the victory for the hosts. At the same time favourites Northumbria lost to Birmingham A’s and on Sunday the surprise of the year so far was winless Colchester beating Leeds.

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The Kent Crusaders finished the Patrons Cup with am unbeaten record as they beat Plymouth Raiders II in a game that was close until the fourth quarter when Crusaders closed out the game well and won by 14, 87-73

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Men: Kent Crusaders 87 Plymouth Raiders II 73 (Robbie Parker 24, Simon Mitchell 16, Soren Sorensen 14, James Harris 13, Damian Lyons 11)

Under 18s: Westminster Warriors 75 Kent Crusaders 74

Under 16s: Kent Crusaders 60 Westminster Warriors 49

Under 14s: Bucks Hornets 91 Kent Crusaders 27

The Kent Crusaders men beat the London Mets on Saturday night, 71-67. In what can only be described as a very good basketball game the Crusaders drew the longest straw at the end.

The game featured leveral lead changes in the first half before the Mets, in less than two minutes, scored the first seven points of the second half to go ahead by 14, 47-33. From that point onwards the Crusaders defence really kicked in, holding the Mets to 20 points for the rest of the game.

Slowly the home team reined in the lead until the Crusaders finally took the lead with three minutes played in the fourth quarter, 57-56. The Mets briefly regained the lead a minute later, 61-59, but the Crusaders scored the next seven straight. Despite a scare when the Mets got within 3 in the last minute the Crusaders managed to hold on as Rafal Sojczynski sank a free throw with three seconds to go to seal the win, 71-67.

Full game report to follow