BASKETBALL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 268, 25 August 1949, Page 2

BASKETBALL

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT FIRST DAY’S PLAY (P.A.) DUNEDIN, August 24. Canterbury, last year’s winner of the New Zealand Cup, concluded the first day’s play in the Dominion women’s basketball tournament to-day with two wins, beating Hawke’s Bay 19-11 and Otago 24-18. To-day’s results were:

First Grade. —Wanganui 13, Welling- 1 ton 12; Auckland 15, Southland 11; Otago 28, Manawatu 12; Canterbury. 19, Hawke’s Bay 11; Auckland 14, i Wellington 7; Canterbury 24, Otago IS, Second Grade.—South Canterbury 8,; Southland Minor 3; Poverty Bay 8, Horowhenua 7; Horowhenua 15, Waikato 5; Matamata 7, Poverty Bay 5; Horowhenua 4, Nelson 3; Taarnaki 10, Poverty Bay 3; Matamata 12, Tauranga 10; Taranfiki 9, I-lutt Valley S; Tauranga 15, South Canterbury 5; Tau-{ ranga. 5, Waikato 5; West Coast 21, j Wairoa 3; Waikato 15, Nelson 12; j Wairoa 8, Southland Minor 4; Taranaki 9, Nelson 8; Hutt Valley 5, Wairoa 2; South Canterbury 5, West Coast 3. i Third Grade. —North Otago 9, Malta- 1 watu Minor 6; Otago Minor 5, Waikato Minor 3; Hawke’s Bay Minor 11, Te Kawau 4; Kaikoura 10, Manawatu, Minor G; Canterbury Minor 4, Manawatu Minor 2; Matamata 5, Hutt Valley 5- Wairarapa 16, Hawke’s Bay 3; Marlborough 17, Canterbury Minor 5; Marlborough IG, Waikato Minor 5; , Hawke’s Bay Minor 3, Otago Minor 3; Wairarapa 1, Kaikoura 1; West Coast 9, Southland Minor 3; Temuka 8, Waikato Minor 4; Kaikoura 10, Te Kawau 5; Temuka 11, Putaruru 6‘, Canterbury Minor 11, Putaruru 5; North Otago 7, Temuka 4; Marlborough 7, Putaruru 2; Wairarapa 5, Te Kawau 5.

ASHBURTON ASSOCIATION MATCHES FOR SATURDAY Only senior B matches will be played in the basketball on Saturday. All matches will start at 2 o’clock." The following is the draw: Section I.— Hampstead v. Nurses, ground 1 (Mrs Hulme); Allenton I. v. Technical, ground 2 (Mrs O’Shea). Section 2: Allenton 2 beat Baring Square by default; High Old Girls v. Farmers, ground 3 (Mrs Wendleborn). Section 3: Tekau v. Convent Old Girls, ground 4 (Miss D. Smith); Technical Old Girls I v. Technical Old Girls 11., ground 5 (Mrs Husband).