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Breakers Slide To Third
Joel Tiller, Sportal
The Melbourne Tigers have taken a significant step towards overhauling the second placed New Zealand Breakers and poaching an Australian National Basketball League playoffs seeding with a commanding 103-85 win at the North Shore Events Centre on Thursday night.
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All-NZ Q&A: Josh Young
Counties-Manukau guard Josh Young is one of many athletes to double-up this month with the 2009 Koru Development Tour to Australia last week and the All-NZ Camp in Palmerston North this week. Josh, along with fellow under-16 Koru and All-NZ Camp athlete Tim Apisai, helped Counties Manukau . . .
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Wanted: BBO Vacancies
Basketball Otago (BBO) seeks to fill positions for an administration and finanace manager and part-time competitions manager for 2009. The adminstration and finance manager position will be full-time and responsible for the day-to-day administration and finances of all BBO activities, while the competitions manager role will be part-time (up to 25 hours per week maximum) with the responsibility of running all BBO weekly competitions and tournaments.
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Cocks, Ducks Quack
Tall Ferns guard Micaela Cocks produced two double-digit socring games to help her University of Oregon women’s team get back on track with back-to-back wins last week. Cocks produced 19 points (5/13 FG, 3/4 3pt, 6/7 FT), four rebounds, two assists and two steals in 34 minutes as the Ducks rolled the Washington Huskies, Tall Ferns centre Jess McCormack’s former team, 75-55 in Seattle on Thursday.
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All-NZ 'Ballers Go Camping
More than 80 athletes and coaches descend on Palmerston North in the next nine days for Basketball New Zealand’s All-NZ Camp. The Emerging Junior Tall Blacks and under-16 boys get things started on Thursday with day one of their five-day camp at Massey University and Arena Manawatu . . .
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Marks Gets Rare Start
Consigned to minor roles off the bench for much of his career, former Tall Blacks centre Sean Marks made his first NBA start in almost seven years for the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday. In just the seventh start of his 146-game NBA career, Marks provided two points (1/5 FG), three rebounds and a block . . .
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Polyblank's Best Not Enough
Former Tall Blacks forward Brendon Polyblank produced his best numbers of the Swiss season but could not prevent his club falling back to an even record on Saturday. Polyblank dropped a team-high 23 points (10/19 FG, 1/2 3pt, 2/3 FT), adding eight rebounds, three steals and two assists while playing every minute . . .
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AYOF Men Claim Bronze
The New Zealand under-18 men claimed bronze medals on the final day of the Australian Youth Olympic Festival basketball tournament in Sydney on Saturday. Behind a team-high 27 points from Cantabrian Ethan Rusbatch and double-doubles from Aussie-based Max Williams and Tepasu Thomas, New Zealand blew a fourth-quarter lead before prevailing 86-85 in overtime over Japan in the bronze medal playoff.
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U14 Kea Fall In Final
The New Zealand Kea boys narrowly failed to repeat as under-14 champions at the Australian Country Junior Basketball Cup in Albury, New South Wales, on Saturday. Despite 18 points from Jaylen Gerrand, the Kea boys fell 78-62 to the Victoria Goldminers in Saturday’s final.
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BBNZ AGM
Basketball New Zealand's AGM will be held at the Holiday Inn, 75 Featherston St, Wellington, on Saturday and Sunday March 21-22, 2009. AGM apapers were mailed to associations and life members on Wednesday, July 14.
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Kerr Goes Point-A-Minute
Tall Ferns captain Aneka Kerr matched minutes with points in her latest outing for the Townsville Fire in the Australian Women’s Basketball League. Kerr had 18 points (6/9 FG, 6/8 FT) and four rebounds in 18 minutes as the second-placed Fire withstood a comeback from Tall Ferns team-mate Natalie Purcell and the Logan Thunder, before winning 83-66 on Friday.
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Penney Leads Breakers To W
Joel Tiller, Sportal
The New Zealand Breakers have halted their three game losing streak in the Australian National Basketball League with a 95-86 win over the Townsville Crocodiles at the North Shore Events Centre on Thursday night. New Zealand benefited from superior defensive pressure, particularly in the second quarter . . .
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Pledger Returns From Break
Tall Blacks bench centre Alex Pledger made an immediate impact for his US college team, NCAA division two Belmont Abbey College, after returning from a six-week injury lay-off last week. Pledger had been sidelined since late November after breaking a bone in his right elbow, but propelled himself back into the Crusaders line-up . . .
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Ferns Among Scholars
Olympians Charmian Purcell and Lisa Wallbutton, are among the nine basketballers to receive Prime Minister’s Athletes Scholarships for 2009 through the NZ Academy of Sport. The scholarship scheme, designed to assist elite athletes in tertiary study, has recognized 356 recipients across 25 sports this year . . .
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Upcoming Events
January 22-30
All-NZ Camp
Palmerston North
Saturday, January 24
NZ Breakers vs Melbourne Tigers
Melbourne, 9.30pm (NZ Time)
Thursday, January 29
NZ Breakers vs South Dragons
NSEC, 7.30pm
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