Primary Basketball Thursday 19th January 2012
Another fantastic inter-house tournament to start off the year of 2012. It was a hard fought contest all the way through with close games between all the houses. Churchill overpowered a weakened Cervantes team in the first game winning by 14 points to 2. The second game of the tournament was much closer with Gaudi having a slight advantage in a 22 point thriller. In the second round of matches Gaudi took full advantage of the rule that meant if a year 3 pupil scored the points were doubled with all their 3 baskets being scored by year 3´s giving them a 12-0 win over Cervantes. Once again, in the second game of the day Newton came up short by 2 points, losing narrowly to Churchill 6-4. This meant that going into the last round of games the final was already decided with Churchill and Gaudi finishing in the top two places. So on Wednesday there was just pride to play for and the games once again did not disappoint. Cervantes claimed their first victory of the tournament with an impressive 12-6 win over Newton which had people thinking why they hadn’t performed like that all the way through the tournament. Gaudi then completed a romping 10-0 victory over their final opponents, making them clear favourites to claim the overall prize.
What a difference a day makes!!!!
Newton really turned on the style in the 3rd place play off and surged into a 20-0 lead at half time leaving Cervantes shell-shocked. Cervantes did improve in the second half but couldn’t fight back after what was an amazing first half display of shooting by Newton. Newton claimed third place with an impressive 26 – 4 victory.
The final was a very hard fought encounter with chances to win for either side. Churchill were playing like a different team to the one that lost to Gaudi only the day before and they raced into a 4 – 0 lead with baskets by talisman Pablo Perez. Gaudi pulled a basket back through Ben Howman-Murray, leaving them trailing by 4 points to 2 at half time. Inspirational half time team talks from their teachers Mrs Toomey and Mrs Rumistrzewicz meant the teams came out fighting in the second half. It was Gaudi that made the first impact with another basket by Ben Howman-Murray to bring the scores level. The game then went from end to end with neither team able to take advantage of some good court position and it was looking like another inter-house tournament would end in a shoot out. With only 90 seconds to go Pablo Perez popped up to score his third basket of the day giving Churchill the lead and sending a very noisy crowd through the roof. Gaudi were unable to hit back in such a short space of time, giving Churchill revenge for their defeat in the inter-house football tournament.
Well done Churchill!!!!
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the event and a big thank you to all the parents who attended the final for their continued support.
CERVANTES 2 - 14 CHURCHILL
GAUDI 12 - 10 NEWTON
CERVANTES 0 - 12 GAUDI
CHURCHILL 6 – 4 NEWTON
NEWTON 6 – 12 CERVANTES
GAUDI 10 - 0 CHURCHILL
3RD PLACE V 4TH PLACE
NEWTON 26 - 4 CERVANTES
FINAL
GAUDI 4 - 6 CHURCHILL
