Heaves Drop Millrats With Late Defensive Stand
January 12, 2008 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Vermont Frost Heaves News Release
Burlington, Vt.-The Vermont Frost Heaves overtook the Manchester Millrats in the fourth quarter to take a 109-99 win in a game that was suspended in the final minute after the third altercation of the afternoon broke out.
Vermont was led by Dokun Akingbade, who netted 22 points, seven of them in the crucial last minutes of the game. Akingbade also took down nine boards. Behind him was Dwuan Rice with 19 points and seven assists, followed closely by Terrance Green with 19 and Antonio Burks, who had 11.
The referees called the game in the final minute after Manchester's Ife Anosike took a swing at Vermont's Erik Nelson. Earlier the officials had ejected Dwayne Lee of the Frost Heaves and Ismael Caro of the Millrats.
Both teams entered the game road-weary; Manchester had returned from its trip to Singapore two days earlier, and Vermont arrived back from Halifax in the wee hours of Saturday morning-and struggled through frustrating stretches, but the Frost Heaves' defense limited Manchester to 12 points in the truncated fourth quarter.
Manchester was led by Anthony Anderson, who scored 36 points to go with six rebounds. With the loss the Millrats fell to 13-8.
The Frost Heaves (18-3) will return to Burlington tomorrow to take on the Montreal Royal. Game time is at 2:05 p.m.
Tickets for any Frost Heaves home game may be purchased at the door beginning one hour before tip-off; by going to flynntix.org; by calling 802-86-FLYNN; or by stopping by the Flynn's main box office at 153 Main Street in Burlington. Tickets for games in Barre are also available at First in Fitness in Montpelier and Allen Lumber in Barre. Groups of 20 or more may call the Frost Heaves' office at 802-860-0082 for discounted rates.
Fans may watch archived rebroadcasts of all Frost Heaves home games by clicking on the link above. They may also watch rebroadcasts of Frost Heaves home games over affiliates of the Vermont Access Network on cable systems in Barre, Burlington, Cavendish, Hartford, Hyde Park, Ludlow, Lyndonville, Montpelier, Newport, Plymouth, St. Albans, St. Johnsbury, Windsor and Woodstock. In addition, Burlington Telecom makes rebroadcasts of home games available to subscribers as a video-on-demand option.
The presenting sponsor for Frost Heaves Webcasts and telecasts is the Vermont State Employees Credit Union.
The Vermont Frost Heaves Basketball Radio Network carries all games, home and away, over flagship WSNO AM 1490 in Barre, WJOY AM 1230 in Burlington and vermontfrostheaves.com. WLVB FM 93.3 in Morrisville broadcasts a Frost Heaves Game of the Week.
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