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Team Jets played their final 2017/2018 League game at Fort Regent with a game against 3rd placed Leyton. They were determined to put their strongest performance of the Season and this showed with a fantastic opening quarter which finished 11 a piece! Despite the gap in table positions, the home side were not going to just let Leyton take the win and Jets continued to work hard and showed good flow to keep up the pressure of the visitors. The score was 20 v 23 to Leyton at half time. However Leyton had a strong 3rd quarter and stepped up to take a seven goal lead going into the final 15 minutes (30 v 37). In a thrilling and fast paced final quarter which had the spectators on the edge of their seat, Jets finished strongly closing the gap so that they were drawing in the final minutes. With 5 consecutive goals the crowd was lifted but it was Leyton who took the winning the goal leaving the score 46 v 47. They may have finished just short of being able to celebrate a triumph, but having bounced back from seven goals down in the final quarter Jets were able to hold their heads high, having pushed promotion-chasing Leyton right to the wire. ‘It’s bittersweet, but that’s the nature of sport,’ said coach Linda Andrews. ‘You have to play to the final whistle and minimise as many errors as you can. It might have been an error at the end that cost us, but there were others throughout the match where we could have kept a close goal margin. ‘We laid our hearts and souls on the court today and to end on a game like this … OK we lost by a goal but we’ve put in a performance and pulled them back in. The momentum from the last couple of games – we can take that into the play-offs.’
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