Game 15 was the final game of the regular season for the Sovereign Knights with a win against Version 2 keeping their finals hopes alive. The last time these teams met the Sovs smashed Version 2 in rather humid conditions.

The Sovs displayed an almost full line-up, minus guard Matt Lee with his injured ankle. With a deep bench available the Sovs implemented a rotation based system that allowed fresh legs to be on the court all night.

Unlike the previous game against the opposition, Version 2 displayed some formation and scored the first 2 points of the game. Their lead was short lived however with some quick passes into free space, which let Mark and Simon hit the cord with some delicate J’s.

The ball pressure was simply amazing from the guards (Simon, Azz and Mao) who swiped the ball more often than a woman at Myers with a credit card. Due to the lads stealing the ball the Sovs ball possession increased, which saw further points rattle on to the scoreboard.

It wasn’t only the guards who were firing but the big men took to the task also with Ro and Chunka working tirelessly on defence whilst Mark was showing how to do it in offence with some slick passes, which could have only been taught by Mao.

The Sov machine was working beautifully and the 1st half was capped off with the Widdison brothers teaming up the first buzzer beater for the season. Azz cleverly drew some inquisitive defenders and dished the ball to Mark who threw an ordinary shot (Bill Cartwright style) that managed to swish.

The lads came back from the half time break full of confidence and with fresh legs. So yet again the Sovs started running in offence and cut the Version 2 defence up with ease. The Rocket, Azz and Mao were having a last game blast by controlling the game tempo.

Rainbow Age remained rather quiet for most of the game but with some handy passes being made to him he soon got into the game scoring some much needed percentage boosting points.

Then tragedy struck for the 2nd time this season for the defensive magnate Chunka, who went down with what was believed to be the same ankle injury suffered back in game 7 against the Rockers. Chunka was quickly taken off the court with ice applied quickly to the injury.

The game continued and the Sovs played spiritedly with victory in mind for Chunka. The Sovs were reduced again with Crash managing to attract another foul from the refs that forced him from the game with 5 fouls.

With only 5 players left, the Sovs retracted into their formidable zone defence and quietly ran out the game with Azz leading all scorers for the 2nd half by keenly stealing the ball and running the court

The Sovs walked away with an easy 42-21 against Version 2. The end of season sceptical was saddened by the chance that the fans had seen Chunk’s last game.