BASKETBALL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27441, 30 August 1954, Page 6

BASKETBALL

NATIONAL WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT

CANTERBURY WINS FIRST GRADE CUP (New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, Aug. 29. Canterbury, unbeaten throughout the tourney, won the New Zealand cup at the New Zealand women’s outdoor basketball tournament at Hastings on Saturday. In the final match, Canterbury beat last year’s winner, Auckland. Auckland and Hawke’s Bay tied for second place, and hold the Annie Brown cup. In the second grade, Rotorua won the President’s shield by a margin of one point from Hutt Valley and South Cantertjury, which tied for the Hayhurst cup. Though there was sharp, squally rain for the first half of the cup final, the weather cleared later, and there was a record attendance for the annual interisland match, in which South Island beat North, 23-18. lows° al championshi P Points were as fol,«Fi£st Gr ade.—Canterbury 16, Auckland 1 3, ,^ a ,Y ke ’ s Ba y 13 > Otago 10, Wanganui 8, Welhngton 6, Tauranga 4, Southland 2, Manawatu 0. Second Grade.—Rotorua 20, Hutt Val--19. South Canterbury 19, Southland Minor 18, Weikato 18, Taranaki 16, Nelson 11, Matamata 10. Marlborough 9. Ashburton 8, Horowhenua 4, West Coast 4, Poverty Bay 0. Progress positions for the Violet Gilmour trophy, awarded to the team with the fewest average of goals scored against ft are: Hutt Valley 12.16, Taranaki 14.12, Hawke’s Bay 14.78. .x’ rh 2.. 1^,al result wlu be decided after jnei third-grade championship tourney at Welhngton next week. Results on the final day of the championships were:— First Grade.—Otago 18, Wellington 17; Tauranga 27, Wanganui 19; Hawke’s Bay 20, Manawatu 12; Canterbury 24, Auckland Second Grade.—Horowhenua 26, Poverty Bay 17; Marlborough 20, Ashburton 15; J®,. West Coast 16: Nelson 17, Southland Minor 16; Waikato 14, Mata?A ata c« “-..Taranaki 20, South Canterbury 19; Southland Minor 22, Ashburton 10; West Coast 19, Poverty Bay 18; Hutt ValRo J® rua 9; South Canterbury 28, 17: W a ikato 27, Horowhenua 6; 10 ’* Taranaki 6; Southland S “o* Poverty Bay 8; Nelson 19, Ashburton 13, Rotorua 22, Marlborough 12.