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Lindsay makes comeback for GET Sydney Uni Flames
Narelle Lindsay flew into Sydney on Thursday to fill the void of point guard for the G.E.T. Sydney Uni Flames.
Lindsay received a phone call from her former coach Karen Dalton after the Flames lost their first home game against the Adelaide Fellas on Friday night.
"I've had a year off so I'm nervous but very excited to be playing again. The team has changed a lot in two seasons so it will be a new challenge for me," said Lindsay.
After three seasons, Lindsay left the Flames as the starting point guard to pursue a career with Sports Medicine Australia in her home town of Adelaide. Lindsay, 26, played in three consecutive grand finals in her three seasons with the Flames, winning the championship in 2001/02. She had previously won a championship with the Adelaide Lighting in 1998 (ironically it was against the Sydney Flames). In 2005, Lindsay was voted to the ABA National All Star Five team as the point guard.
The position has so far been ably filled by league newcomer Vicki Brick but the game on Friday was the third loss in four matches for the Flames, despite an amazing forwards lineup which includes Opals Natalie Porter, Trish Fallon and Belinda Snell.
After finishing last year's Price Attack WNBL as runners-up, the G.E.T. Sydney Uni Flames recruited two star point guards including Opals Alicia Poto and Kristen Veal. Poto tore her anterior cruciate ligament during an Opals match in August, sidelining her before the season had begun. Veal, who spent five years with the Canberra Capitals, is also injured until December.
Lindsay will be reunited with the team this Saturday night when the G.E.T. Sydney Uni Flames do battle with the Canberra TransACT Capitals, in their second home game at the Sydney University Sports and Aquatic Centre from 7pm.
