Basketball

It is unfortunate that owing to lack of practice and insufficient time playing as a team, the basketball team must again report a failure at Tournament. However, despite the adverse scores the games were most enjoyable and except, perhaps, for the game against Auckland, we managed to keep our team play going reasonably well. In the first game on Saturday, against Canterbury, the play was very even in the first half and the half-time score was 5-5. Unfortunately our team tired quickly in the second half and Canterbury soon drew away, making the final score 8-16. The game against Otago was also a good one, despite the fact that it was clear from the start that Otago had the better team. Good work in our defence third often kept the ball away from the Otago forwards and the final score in this game was 5-15. On Monday the game against Auckland was much slower than the previous two and as we tired quickly it was with little difficulty that the accurate shooting of the Auckland forwards took the final score to 10-25.

Three of our players, Joy Mitchell, Helen Aitken, and Janice Fraser, were chosen to play in the North Island team for the North v. South game which was won by South.

Perhaps next year if we can have an earlier start for practices we may be able to do better at Tournament.