http://nationals.basketball.net.au/juniorchampionships

http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-4101-0-0-0&sID=50057

Sturt boys down to Ballarat. 41-55
Forestville/ sturt girls big winners.
South down to Cairns
Eastern still to play

That certainly will add percentage points for them..well done..

I see Forestville and Sturt Girls are currently 1 and 2 respectively on the ladder - dont want to jinx them but it appears they are both in with a strong chance..fantastic effort..

South girls playing good basketball but struggled with some injuries last nite v canberra. Good luck in today's game girls. Sturt & Forestville will make top 6.

Blame the injuries. They should have never have gone and were always going to play for bottom 4.

South softies ur a tool. Guess it would b to hard to b positive about South being at national's.
Girls played Bulleen yesterday and played a great game. At classic's they played eachother and Bulleen beat them by 70. And Yesterday only going down by 18. Score line doesn't prove wat a exciting game it was. 5 south parents making louder noise than the 40 Bulleen supporters.

So what? Bulleen rotated all their players and you were never a threat. What positive? The only reason you guys are there because they stuffed up the draw and had to increase it by 4 teams. Hardly inspiring stuff.

Well done Sturt girls on beating the Melbourne Tigers today by 19 points. Great effort and good luck with the finals.

Boys defeated Brisbane today to advance to top 8. They carry through the win against Brisbane and only need to defeat either Eltham or Gosford to advance to the final 4. If they do, it will be the fourth year in a row in the medal round, a great effort.

How are eastern boys going - bottom 8 ? Won winter season by 10 yet do not seem to travel well. Stage fright or the coaching ? Should be doing better than this one would think. Your thoughts Hillbilly ?

Still some games to go so lets not count our chickens just yet and get off South's back.

Victorian
I thought you would be to busy celebrating the CAT's
win to be reading HOOPS.

TK

Just back from the land of the pussy and they were all but puuuurrrrrrfect. One massive power failure occured. What a magnificent pretty sight to see so many teal, blue and grey jackets leaving the G before 3/4 time on the last saturday in september. It has been worth the wait and who cares if it takes another 44 years. I think you would agree that it was a sensational purformance from a pure footy perspective.

Have also witnessed first hand a flogging or 2 in previous GF's but at least we were not cocky or arrogant like messr's williams and co. Hope you are not a power supporter.

By the way have they still got any of those 1982 powerdores for sale where it costs you half your dole cheque for 2 years and includes a free ashtray upgrade and multi coloured tri colour panels. Believe I saw one parked in a paddock near Tintinara on monday night as we came through. Came with air con as the windows were down.

Boys and girls both through to the top 4. Boys will play Knox and girls will play Forestville. Great effort by both teams.

Can anyone advise where to find latest results - keep going to website and all I can find is round 5 all pools, cant find who is playing who is in finals today or scores if played

the draw for today is there - south played early, sturt and forestville play late this arvo

In the girls sturt v eagles 7 - 12 at 1/4 time.

Sturt v eagles. Half time 22 - 19 sturt up. eagles had bad quarter scoring wise. Just bad shot selection. More than good defence. Crowd for both teams very vocal

3/4 time scores even. 32 - 32 great quarter by both teams. Both teams taking it VERY hard to the basket. Last time these 2 teams played it went into OT. C how the 4th goes.

Great Work Harry,

Keep the results coming!

keep it up

WAT A GAME. Sturt by 1, 41 - 40 Sturt to play Bulleen in GF. Eagles to play cairns. Great game from both teams.

pitty there had to be a loser

Great work by Matt Gliddon and the coaching staff for Sturt. Commiserations to Trevor Simmons and the Eagles. This might very well have been the Grand Final game.

The same two teams that squared of for the Classics GF in U12's are back at it again. Remember that Sturt romped it in back then, but I am sure this will be a much closer game.

Fantastic effort by SA to have 2 top 4 teams.

Well done to all teams competing at Club nationals!
Great experience for all who attend and will be huge experience to recall....most top players started there
Despite what is said on BA site, exchange of gifts is not new this year and lasting friendships made/sportsmanship developed Congratulations Sturt and Forestville girls and Sturt boys in top 4...what a girls final must have been and both to be congratulated.. Hopefully SA will have 2 medals hopefully gold and bronze!Best wishes Sturt boys to get a medal too....go SA

Cairns v eagles, bronze medal playoff. Quarter time 13 - 11. Eagles controlling game but not boxing out.

Cairns v eagles. Half time 22 - 21. Eagles much better quarter. Cairns hitting some very tough shot's.

Cairns v eagles 3 quarter time 28 - 41 great quarter by the eagles

Keep us updated and also the sturt game would be great!!

Thanks for that and well done to the eagles. Keep us posted on the Sturt game.

Yes well done eagles and hopefully the Sturt girls and boys do well too

Sturt v bulleen. Gold medal game. 15 - 15 Both teams traded baskets all quarter.

thanks

Sturt v bulleen half time 34 - 25 sturt down. sturt struggled to contain bulleen's transition. Big centre for sturt gone down with ankle injury. Hopefully c her back in the 2nd half

Sturt v bulleen 3 quarter time. 41 - 47 down by 6. Centre for sturt out for rest of game. Bad ankle injury. Big and very loud crowd, lets hope sturt bring it home in the last

Many thanks Harry, hopefully the tired girls can find something exra without a main player...good luck to coaches and players

which player is it? Wilson or Greaves

Girls grand final. Sturt lost by 12. 60 - 48. Congrat's Bulleen. Hard fought game from both teams. 2nd and 3rd for SA.

Well done Sturt it's hard to contain their bigs losing a tall player....yes great for SA girls basketball programs

Congratulations to all SA teams, did us proud, great effot by Sturt though to have girls and boys finish in Top 4, all the hard work has paid off guys, you should all be proud of yourselves and your efforts to finish where you did. Top effort from both coaches, and support teams.

Well done to Sturt & Eagles in having teams make the top 4. Any time you can get there, you know you've had a great week. Mavs coming 15th was the only SA disappointment for the week.

My memory doesn't stretch back too far, but the last 4 years Sturts results have been something like:

2007 - Boys 4th, Girls 2nd
2006 - Boys 3rd, Girls 5th
2005 - Boys 1st, Girls 2nd
2004 - Boys 3rd, Girls ?

Which I think is pretty impressive in itself. Add in Norwood & Forestville (in boys & girls, respectively) finishing top 4 last year and things can't be going too horribly in SA junior basketball, can they?

What happened to Eastern, there was a lot of talk about waiting for the results at Nationals before reviewing how good the team is. What happened for them to come 15th.

Actually I think South Girls coming 22nd was the biggest disappointment! Means they really shouldn't have been there in the first place!

They were so low down, I forgot they even went. My mistake.

Thanks Empire. Rubbing it in again. How about we talk about the best player in the 14 girls moving clubs along with a couple of others. That 14 team will drop big time in two years time. I think you say SA Country is doing well because the best players over the week were country. SA metro is looking very sick indeed.

r2d2

Are you then saying that 15th at National Champs is something to write home about when they continue to claim on the site they are better than the Sturt team which finished 4th.

15th is disappointing when they had a team of players with a lot of potential.

What I am saying is that Eastern lost a game by a point that could have changed their whole week. Look at the girls side, Dandenong beat Sturt and have done so consistantly yet missed out on the top four. Because of the way the draw was for the girls this year they did not get to carry their game over. The thing Sturt don't get is that they continually rub in peoples faces by coming on here bragging. It will be an interesting couple of years to see Sturt with some non star studded team.

r2,

I think you'll find the best u14 girl is staying at sturt and two lesser players are leaving.

if these players had stayed a sturt well and good - i wish them well if that is what they want.

sturt's u16s are very strong next season, very competitive - going deep with quality coaches.

hardly think it is the end.

yeah - let's turn this pleasant little positive thread into a dig about players who have reached the ripe old age of 12 or 13. Let's make it sour and nasty and teach the true values of sportsmanship. Let's make sure that the great players at this age group continue the trend of appearing nowhere when it really counts for them because of the unbelievable pressure and BS surrounding them. People make decisions about clubs for whatever reason - who cares? Sometimes it works - sometimes it doesn't - time will tell, labelling someone "the best" only works in girl's gymnastics at this age ..... leave it be.

here here

ENOUGH SAID!!

This was posted Anonymously after Eastern beat STurt in the GF. Yet what was the result at Nationals again...........................

Sorry this was posted

"Eastern Maverick's was just far too good for the Sabre's, they proved that they are a far better team than Sturt.... Congratulation's MAV'S"

And the result at State Champs was...

Does anyone know what actually happened at nationals for these two seemingly relatively evenly matched teams to finish so far apart?

Was it just a matter of one team having a good week & one a poor week? Was it coaching/preparation? Was it just the way the draw fell?

Not trying to stir anything up here, but looking from afar I was just amazed at the difference in results.

It's done. Let's all move on.

from what i know the sturt boys team were preparing themselfs by training against the under 16 div 2 boys team. this included two minute drills proper quaters etc. the 16 team was that much bigger that it would of helped them alot, on that well done to all sa teams.