TORRES NEWS THURSDAY 16 MARCH 2023
Training clinics a hit with NPA juniors
NPA KITTYHAWK BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PICS BY STANLEY ELU
The junior Intensive Training Clinics have been going very strongly lately, with many kids coming along to improve their basketball skills.
We have had recent success with Betty Sagigi and Kyra Bowie making the U18 Peninsula Side and heading for the State championships in Brisbane in May.
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ICBL wins and losses tally big scoring games
With so many kids coming along, we have changed our start and finish times. They are: • 8am – 9am Year 3 – 5 kids • 8.30am – 10am Year 6 and up. Go ITC!
STORY BY VELMA GARA There were some big scores in recent games for the Indigenous Community Basketball League held at the Sports Complex on Thursday Island. In the first boys’ game Zey continued their winning streak, defeating Sager 52 to 38. In the other boys’ game, Naygay narrowly defeated Kuki – 34 to 31. In the girls’ competition – Naygay recorded their first win in the ICBL as they played against Kuku, defeating them – 70 to 10. It was another high scoring team effort in the other girls’ game earlier on the Sunday afternoon,
as Sager defeated Zey, 72 to 29. Torres Strait Coordinator, Mick Loban said there were no games scheduled for this Sunday 19 March 2023. “All teams should be rested and ready to play in the semi-finals to be held on 26 March 2023,” he said. There will be an update of the teams’ placing on the ICBL ladder in next week’s edition of Torres News.
Format for finals 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd, with the winners of each advancing to the girls and boys grand finals.
NBL final series goes to best of five
WILLIAM MCDOWELL-WHITE: in Cairns vs the Taipans late last year. Pic Christine Howes. A do-or-die Game 5 last night decided the 2023 Hungry Jack’s NBL Champions, after the New Zealand Breakers defeated the Sydney Kings, 80-70, in a fiery Game 4 last weekend. Unfortunately, at the time of printing, the game was yet to be played. On Sunday, in front of the biggest crowd for a game in New Zealand, the Breakers led from start to finish for the 9728 adoring fans in attendance. Indigenous player for the Breakers, William McDowell-White, was reportedly everywhere, with 19 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.
