In-demand Murphy faces double appearance

DAVID MURPHY, one of Irish basketball’s most exciting young talents, faces a busy weekend with the possibility of playing in the senior men’s semi-final with Mardyke UCC Demons before going on to captain the club’s U19’s tomorrow night in the men’s junior final.

The UCC scholarship student has been nursing an ankle injury in recent weeks but on Wednesday night coach Pat Price told him to be ready to come off the bench in tomorrow’s senior semi final before leading his team out in the junior final against Castleisland’s Galwey Auctioneering Hoops.

The all-action point guard has already made a number of starts in the SuperLeague but his season was fragmented through illness and injury.