Top start. That was the bogey game , now hope Sturt can open the account with a win.

Interesting Gosford lost, that should help the Eagles.

Sturt should account for Nth Tassy fairly easily later today and that's their day done, Forestville need to play Eastern Suns in their second match today and that should be a great game with Eastern knocking off Gosford earlier.

The Sturt girls won their first match against North Tasmania 78-36.

They play Southern Districts tomorrow, and back up against Knox tomorrow evening, who they defeated in the Classics gold medal match.

Knox snuck home a 38-35 victory over Albury today as well, so expect the Sturt vs Albury game on Wednesday to be very tough as well, in what is a very tight group.

Pool of death that one, agreed.

Forestville girls won their 2nd game of the day 51-41 against the Eastern Suns.

Early days yet but lets hope the winning streaks continue for Forestville & Sturt.

Links, yeah good luck. I tried a few different sites tonight with no luck.

Im relying on a F/ville parent that I know.

For the moment, anyone with results post em here.

Go to Basketball Australia website then click on the side bar re Under 14 girls and this should help.

www.nationals.basketball.net.au

Looks like there are some quality sides.

Forestville doing extremely well in the pool of death.

Results also are showing Willeton after many quiet years are back after thumping Dandenong by 23 points. Townsville and Brisbane look good and Sturt yet to play any quality but will be around the mark. Also watch for Knox and Albury.

In the Know...What about the Nuna's????Bulleen seems to have the easy pool.

F/ville just beat Gosford 60-32. Great team performance.

Yes, sorry they are number one in Victoria, and just assume they will in the mix come the finals. Forestville are now a real title threat.

They will crossover in aa with Nunawading and Bendigo.
Probably take Eastern suns or Townsville with them , plus carry that win in.
Theyre key game will be Nunawading, I think they will be better than Bendigo.

Aware of that, but a lot of things have happened since then.
The eagles seemed pretty motivated to do well this week.
Yesterday was a big day and they got through it very well.
My read is that the will get over Bendigo.

Could be wrong as you say.

Nationals are very tough..Ask Nicole and Scott and Jim.

My top four in no order

1. Sturt
2.Nunawading
3.Willeton
4.Forrestville.

97872

Thanks for letting me Know, I am new to all this stuff!!

I disagree.
The qualification for SA/Vic/Qld/ACT/Tas/WA has remained.

Same allocation from each state.
The extras ie.NT Nth/Sth and host association are at the weaker end of the comp. The extra NSW has made it stronger, hence the 'pool of death'

In some ways I find the Classic harder because there is a greater depth and no easy games at u/14 level.

Yes It would.

Say that happened in Adelaide this year ,South would have been selected, I suspect they would be bottom 10?

Its in ACT next year, so good chance of us or WA getting an extra spot, is that what you are saying?

I reckon SA should have 3 every year our results are consistently good enough.

Just our population that doesnt allow it I assume.

My take on it is that Forestville can not finish lower than 8th. That has put them in very good position.

Go Forestville & Sturt.

The pool games are there to decide exactly that. You must finish top two in your pool.
This puts you top 8 at worst.

South would not come last I can assure you.

A.
1.Nunawading
2.Bendigo
B.
1.Knox
2.Sturt
C
1.Forestville
2.Townsville
D.
1.Willeton
2.Sydney

If this is the outcome Sturt have the harder road to the Semi.
But still within them.Must beat both Sydney(OK) and Willeton(Not so easy).
Forestville to make semi easy now, I rate them to beat Bendigo , plus carry the win from Townsville.
Makes tommorows game the most important for the Eagles.

Prob is Sturts top player has done an ankle but hopefully ok by end of week??

Hopefully the Sturt ankle will recover quicker than expected.

I know that 1 of F/villes important players is hitting the court for the 1st time in the champs today as she has suffered severe gastro since arriving in Bris.

If both teams can continue to perform with key players out then it should hold SA in a strong position going in to the major rounds.

Forestville have just beaten Townsville 54-44.

F/ville has not dropped a game yet and finishes top of their group.

Forrestville only need to beat Bendigo now to go top 4.
Possible Matchup with Sturt in the Semi!!!

By my calculations Sturt Must play off 5-8th.

I am really disapointed, they are very good, maybe injuries??

Or have i made a mistake, even if they beat Willeton , Knox and Sydney have one win in the pool already.

They are out!

F/ville went down to Nunawading(spelling??) 51-65 tonight.

I believe they play Bendigo tomorrow evening 6.30pm Bris time.

Chins up Sturt , we know you are a better team than the results thus far have shown.

Eagles beat Bendigo they are in.
Eagles Lose by less than 4 they are in.
Eagle Lose by 5-20 Townsville in.
Eagles lose by more than 20 Bendigo in.

All this assumes Nunawading beat Townsville.


Townsville beat Nunawading and Eagles win . Eagles through

Townsville beat Nunawading Eagles lose Eagles out.

(#98242) You would want to be a very VERY uninformed parent that is sitting his/ her ass in Adelaide & not Brisbane or a shit stirrer with no idea, or both; because the above rubbish could not be further from the truth.

There are answers to your simple and stupid "statements" but you probably couldnt understand them.

Another classic example of a thread being started to give people up to date information on what is happening on the other side of Australia, being hijacked by tools like yourself.

(#98242)you have been spotted!

Sturt are good enough to win the thing.
They have slipped up ...which happens, just shows what a good job the boys teams did last week!!
I would bet on them coming 5th.

$20 on!

98595
What!!
I must have missed the excuse?

In a tournament with 11/12/13 year olds, you cant get consistency, adults can't be consistent.
There is no grounds to bag Sturt.
To say they have not been developed is utter rubbish.
What is your evidence that thay have not been developed??

If we must get into another slanging match between 2 strong SA clubs, so be it, but start another topic.

The original intention of this topic was to provide a means of putting up to date scores, within a few mins of matches finishing in Brisbane so family, freinds and well wishers could keep updated quickly.

Lets all remember these are U14 girls, not the Opals or Lightning.

All take a "time out", calm down & start another topic if you really feel the need to bag these 2 clubs.

Go SA

Ditto

Classic winners are now in 5-8.
I would never had predicted that!!
I dont think my 20 is safe either!!
Forrestville win and they will play Willeton.

Very tough!

F/ville just beat Bendigo 69-54.

Townsville beat Nunuwading 60-55

I think this gives F/ville a top 4 finish??? Can anyone confirm?

Ooops,that should have read Axeman, shut up Angie E!!

No, Sydney have played out of their skin to get to here.
I go Nunawading on that side.
Forestville to beat Willeton, on the other.
Nunawading to win overall now.

But the results for us are promising for u/16 in two years!!

Dr Damage,

A lot of the very good kids in both Sturt and Forestville are Country so metro won't be that great.

I think Forestville will get over Willeton and then get to play and beat Sydney in the GF. Good luck either way. Hopefully Sturt can be the best team outside the top 4.

Are you kidding 98426?
Say it slowly.

ITK
Yes I think Sturt will get 5th, it would be representative of the great year they have had.
I know that ther are lots of good Country girls..6 actually.
There are more good local ones than this and there will be hot competition. I reckon they will be much better than they showed at TI camp.

I should have said before that Forestville deserve the Semi result and IMO they are talent rich right through to no. 9. I hope that, perhaps, they could go all the way.

What a great comp. I've seen U14 girls nats back to Jackson'syear in '94 and I haven't seen results so much all over the place.
Great depth to this comp. Any one of the top eight look capable of upsetting the eventual winner - whoever THAT might be. AND Dandy and Bulleen are playing for 9th!

(Also pleased to see that the majority of this thread remains positive - please keep it that way. This is no place for piss ante cheap shots)

It's great to see SA doing so well. We produce GREAT juniors and this is a showcase event.

Thought these comments interesting considering the comments re coaching in other threads.

WILLETTON v STURT (53-60)

Sturt started brilliantly and easily controlled the first half up by 18 at halftime. Sturt appeared to have all the answers until late in the third quarter as Willetton charged back. The longer the game went on, the stronger Willetton looked. However in the end, the margin was too great and Sturt held on to a 7 point victory. Top Scorers  Willetton: A Jones 22, E Angel 11. Sturt: A Wilson 13, H Hull, 13.

FORESTVILLE v BENDIGO (69-55)

Forestville play with plenty of height and are coached well. They struck a 15 point lead on the back of too many Bendigo errors and unnecessary turnovers. Forestville are playing sensibly and are looking like a red hot team. Top Scorers  Forestville: I Richards 21, O Thompson 18. Bendigo: A Rutland 14, Y Dellavedova 12.


I think we have a lot to be proud of.

Hey Dr Damage. I dont think you should be naming girls on this post. Isnt that one of the posting rules?

Any way. GO SA.

Only a game report from day 4.

Magpie 2 of the sturt 6 wouldnt make metro team.IMO

Nunawading +9
Eagles -4
Townsville -5

That tournaments, its hard to play to a three way tie,They make it interesting, but also desperate for the team that misses out.

Cant disagree with that Dr. I didnt ask the question , but cant disagree. Lets not mention names just in case.

Any way GO SA. Both teams have done very well to make it to their respective spots.

Boy someone beat me to it.

F/ville went down to Willeton in o/time, 56-57.

Bad luck girls. They now play off for 3 & 4th spot.

Oh, and for #98534 info, I kind of dont work. Im a proffesional bull*#@! artist, and part time bad speller.

Rotten bad luck for the F'ville girls. Experience or not, they're still only 13. Good luck tomorrow to Boti and the girls.

Very strong win for Sturt. A respectable 5-6 finish coming up. Good luck to Matt & girls.

Two tough games but I reckon we'll win both

"SA proud: Sturt cheering for Forestville and meaning it! Way to go girls."
THAT'S what I'm talking about! Puts all the piss ante sniping in its right place.

Maybe Boti (If that is his real name) shouldnt have been celebrating the win before the siren has gone off and concentrated on actually coaching his team (in regular period and over time). Great coaching in the big games!!! History proven we could beat them.

The forestville kids had a pretty good weekcomin thorugh a tough pool to then loose to Nunawading. It was a pretty tough competition not one team has gone through undefeated. And really any of the top 6 could have won it and very competitive all the way down to the 10 teams.

good to see Sturt have show good progres after starting the tournament poorly and hopefully take out the 5th position.

He made the top 4 so thats a great result. How about pulling your heads in a stop the mindless crap and insults that continually plagues this age group.

Why would that happen? Go from a top 4 at Nationals to a team that is bottom? Somebody is shit stirring!

(#98750) Who the hell are you ? And what the hell are you on about?????

The whole F/ville team, parents and players are VERY proud of what the F/ville girls have achived this weekend.

Your comments are disgracefull!
There are 2 different sets of parents from the country in the
F/ville team & both sets of parents IMO are the most encouraging parents in the whole team. I would gladly have both sets of parents barrik for or against my daughter any day of the week. To imply that they were doing anything else than encourging their team is beyond comprehension.

I would like to congradulate ALL the teams that lined up and clapped F/ville out of the stadium last nite (29/9/06). This was a spontanious show of class from the teams involved and goes to show that petty state rivalries mean nothing in this current U14 girls group.

The outlook for Womens Australian B/ball looks very healthy for the future if this championship is anything to go by.

Can I say a BIG thankyou to most of the posters on this thread. The information exchange has been awsoume, keeping everyone who is interested, well & truley up to date.

I believe Nunawading & F/ville players are planning a pizza party in the next few hours.

Well done all involved; WeLL done both SA teams. It was a great result for all involved.

(sorry once again for the spelling)

Axeman; over and out for the final time in this championship!

I must say that having talked to the F/ville parents after that game, including the parent of the girl involved, the comments of (#98750) are diabolical, to say the least & serve no real purpose here.

Congrats to both Sturt & F/ville, especially all coaching staff involved.

You may not have taken home the ultimate prize; but as a whole you have done SA proud.

Well done all!

GO BOTI GO GO BOTI GO GOOOOOOO BOTI QUIT NOW (NOT SMOKING EITHER)

Who cares any more - close the site - enough is enough - get over it

(#99017)HERE, HERE.

hey on behalf of all the vic people we would like to say how pleasent all the Forestville girls and parents were. we had the pleasure of staying in the same hotel and we got along great with all of the girls. we even had a party together on the last night.
to all the sturt parents i know that there aer individuals on your team that are lovely but the fact they started supportin nuna in the final and then changed halfway just shows that they have no heart. the nuna girls had even made an effort to be friendly and luckily the forestville girls had seen that, unlike sturt who obviosly wernt smart enough to c that.
thanks for the support forestville life long friends you girls are as for sturt i dont think any of Victoria could care less.
Well Done FORESTVILLE! we vicslove you!

hey on behalf of all the vic people we would like to say how pleasent all the Forestville girls and parents were. we had the pleasure of staying in the same hotel and we got along great with all of the girls. we even had a party together on the last night.
to all the sturt parents i know that there aer individuals on your team that are lovely but the fact they started supportin nuna in the final and then changed halfway just shows that they have no heart. the nuna girls had even made an effort to be friendly with Sturt
and luckily the forestville girls had seen that, unlike sturt who obviosly wernt smart enough to c that.
thanks for the support forestville life long friends you girls are as for sturt i dont think any of Victoria could care less.
Well Done FORESTVILLE! we vicslove you!

Forestville n Spectres BF4L!xoox mwa

The Sturt girls were nice to nuna in the first place but they changed quick after that. we had total respect until they changed to willos cheer squad. we would of been cheerin for the SA team if it was them and not us in the granny but it wasnt. we wernt able to watch the semi b4 our own game and no other games we were present to watch. therefore u have no evidence we wouldnt of cheered for you!

do u honestly think that it was all about the win.. well tust me you have no judge of character. Nuna are so proud that they took back senend place to a team that beat us on the day. we have full respet for willo. This whole Sturt war is just a load of rubbish and im over it. the girls dont want it so why are we still continuing it. i am saying it is over move on nationals are a thing of the past no-one will be back there again with same teams. Lets keep all the feistyness until 16 state team.

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