Last weekend in June - Games

Sorry I am a little late with this post

This past weekend was a big weekend for both the men's and the women's teams. We both had doubles. Saturday night we played at Kilsyth and Sunday we both played down at Frankston.

For the womens team:
Saturday night they played Nunawading. This was the team that beat them a month and a half ago on a last second shot at the buzzer. It was a hard loss for them but they have bounced back nicely with a long win streak. Saturday night they played hard again and the game was close the whole way. In the end though Nunawading was just too much and ended up beating the girls by 5 points.
Sunday the girls were out to make up what they lost on Saturday night with a win on Sunday. Right from the get-go the girls played well. Frankston had a tall girl who was able to get some points, but Kilsyth played well as a team and were too much for Frankston. They won 85-69. Even though they had a little hiccup on Saturday night they are back on their winning ways and can hopefully continue it next week.

For the men's team we also split for the weekend, winning one game and losing one. The game we won was Saturday night when we played Canberra. This was a big win for us as we are fighting to gain the third spot in our conference. We played hard the whole game and did not give up the lead we got in the first quarter. This game we shared the ball around very well and ran our offence quite well....something that has plagued us in the past.

Sunday we played one of the top teams in our league. They have only lost one game. We started off the game very well and built ourselves a little lead. We kept the lead through the second and and half time were up by a few. The third quarter they came back.. This past week we watched the forth quarter as a team and saw that we were a little stagnant. We didn't move the ball very well and we didn't move the ball that well on offence. We did play fairly good defence and didn't let them get out to a big lead in the forth quarter. The forth quarter neither team scored many points at all. With 20 seconds to go in the game Frankston hit a 3 pointer. We had a chance to go down the court and got a decent look but it just didn't go in. In the end we lost by 3 points. It was a tough loss because they are on of the top team and if we would have beat them we could have put ourselves in a very good spot for finals.

Link to women's story: http://www.kilsythbasketball.com.au/index.php?id=21&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=397&tx_ttnews[backPid]=210&cHash=1ab3148f5b

Link to men's story:http://www.kilsythbasketball.com.au/index.php?id=21&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=396&tx_ttnews[backPid]=210&cHash=80b2242ca5

This coming weekend we play our biggest rival: Knox. The girls play first and then the mens game is after. There should be a lot of people at this game and the atmosphere w ill be a good atmosphere. Hopefully the fans will get very loud and we will be able to use that to our advantage. For me personally I didn't play that great against Frankston so I will be looking to have a good game tomorrow night!
Check back next week to see how we did.