Basketball team seeks hat-trick
The Canterbury junior women’s basketball team will be after the hat-trick when it opens its 1979 campaign at the national tournament in Invercargill tomorrow.
Canterbury, under the able guidance of Kerry Williams, has won the title for the last two years in a row, and a third victory would be another feather in the cap of women’s basketball in the province. The side is drawn mainly from Mr Williams’s Mairehau High School team, which won its eighth consecutive national secondary schoolgirls title in Dunedin at the week-end. The six girls — Donna Broughton, Rayne Cassidy, Megan Stokes, Karen Richardson, Isobel Lee, and Bronwyn Palmer — were all named in the tournament team at the completion of the championships. The other players named for the Canterbury side are Adrianna and Tina Beukenholdt (University), Caroline Perry (Mairehau A), and Barbara Carr (Christchurch United).
Canterbury beat Wellington, 67-35, in the final last year, and a repeat is quite on the cards this time around. Canterbury is the top seed for the Invercargill tournament, and Wellington is second.
New Plymouth, the third seed, and Nelson, the fourth seed, are the other teams likely to feature among the top handful.
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