The Medway Park Crusaders will face the pre-season league favourties in Gillingham as the Durham Wildcats come to visit for the first Division 2 game of the season. The Northerners – who just got promoted from Division 3 – have a perfect record for the season so far as they have demolished all oppsition in all contests.

In the Patrons Cup the Wildcats have run over the other North pool teams, winning by an average margin of 30 points, with the closest game being a 19 point beating of Birmingham A’s in the season premiere.

In the National Cup Durham has also been impressive. In the opening round they beat local rivals Huddersfield Heat 93-57 and on Sunday they beat Division 1 side Leeds Carnegie 77-68 after running out to a 19-8 first quarter lead.

Crusaders head coach Mads Olesen has a lot of respect for the Wildcats’ accomplishments so far this season: “Durham has a good mix of youth, experience and international players, and they’ve hit the ground running this year. When a team has that much self confidence they are very hard to handle if they get on a run, so we have to try to control the game pace. We have to watch their American Scott Morton, but their scoring has been very balanced, so we can’t focus on only one or two players.”

Date Played:       Saturday, 24-October-2009
Time:         7pm
Home Team:     Medway Park Crusaders
Away Team:     Durham Wildcats
Venue:     Medway Park

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