BASKETBALL

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 3

BASKETBALL

N.Z. INDOOR TOURNEY

(New Zealand Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, Sept. 11. A 21-20 victory last night against this year’s North Island champion team, Auckland, gave Palmerston North its fifth consecutive win in the national women’s indoor basketball championships, which were continued at Palmerston North today. Palmerston North is the only team in the A grade to remain unbeaten. In the B grade competition Marlborough and Palmerston North are still unbeaten. Details of teams' wins and losses to di A e Grade.— Wanganui, 6 losses; Auckland, 4 wins and a loss; Palmerston No, th, 5 wins; Canterbury. 5 wins and a loss; Weilington, 5 wins and a loss; Otago, 4 wins and 2 losses; Hawke’s Bay, 1 win and 5 losses; Nelson, 3 wins and 3 losses; Southland, 3 wins and 2 losses; Hamilton, 3 wins and 3 losses; Hut Valley, 1 win and 5 losses; Wairarapa, 5 losses. B Grade.— Marlborough, 4 wins; Palmerston North, 2 wins; Wairarapa, 3 wins and a loss; Otago, 5 loses; Canterbury, 2 wins and 3 losses; Central Otago, 2 wins and one loss. Results of play to-day were.— A Grade.—Hawke’s Bay 28, Wanganui 18' Auckland 31, Nelson 14; Canterbury 24? Hlmfiton 21; Wellington 11, Wairarapa r- Otaeo 15, Hutt Valley 10; Nelson 28, Wanganui 14; Auckland 20, Southland 16; Palmerston North beat Wairarapa by default; Nelson 23, Wairarapa 11, Hutt Valley 22. Wellington 19; Hamilton 27, Wanganui 14' Canterbury 37, Hawke s Bay 20, Southland 27, Nelson 13; Wellington 9, Otago 7; Palmerston North 21, Auckland ■ 20- Hamilton 28, Hawke's Bay 15; CanterI bury 19, Otago 17; Southland 18, Hutt VaiI‘ e B 1 Grade.— Marlborough 35, Wellington 1 16- Palmerston North 20. Canterbury 17, Wairarapa 35. Taranaki 14; Canterbury 20, I Wellington 14; Central Otago 20. Otago 17: Marlborough 46, Taranaki 33; Canterbury. « Otago 13; Marlborough 29, Wairarapa [22'.