Killester aiming for redemption

DEFENDING champions, 11890 Killester, will be red hot favourites going into Sunday’s NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague final at the National Basketball Arena but coach, Mark Keenan, has been around long enough to realise there are no foregone conclusions in this type of situation and Bord Gáis Neptune, he reckons, are not ones to be taken lightly.

The Cork side’s Pat Price would appear to have a discreet ‘ignore us at our peril’ message for the champions but the astute American who has savoured more glory than most since first arriving in Ireland back in the 1990’s is the first to admit that even he is a little taken aback by the fact that this Neptune side has made such huge advances at such an early stage in the project.

He has had his problems, however, with injuries, illness and all the niggly things that can upset coaching preparations but he has been fortunate in recent weeks to have a full bench at his disposal and, almost immediately, the results came.