Basketball: Waterford face daunting mission against Neptune

FOLLOWING their demolition of Horan’s Health Foods Tigers in Tralee on Saturday night nobody wanted to draw Neptune in the quarter-finals of the ESB National Cup, but Waterford Crystal drew the short straw and must travel to Cork on the weekend of January 3-4.

“If we are going to have to play them we might as well get it on,” Crystal coach Michael Evans said as he geared up to face his fellow Waterford man, Gerry Fitzpatrick.

“But it was a draw nobody wanted. Neptune are playing very well, they have a very good five and are very balanced.