Waitemata side wins basketball league
PA Hamilton Drake Personnel-Waite-mata is New Zealand’s first National Basketball League champion. Drake won the inaugural Countrywide Building Society national league final against Hamilton 70-69 in an exciting final play-off in Hamilton’s Y.M.C.A. stadium yesterday. Led by the hot-shooting American, Brian Brumit, the Auckland side came from behind in a close struggle to clinch victory after the home team ran into foul trouble.
Brumit finished the game with the best individual total of 28 points and shared Drake’s rebounding duties with its big centre, Peter Logan, with six each.
Hamilton led the first half of a hectic paced game, 3734, spear-headed by some high percentage shooting from its captain and guard, Richard Philp. Philp, who shot 22 points, and a fellow guard, Steven Agnew, directed some slick teamwork against Drake’s man-to-man defence. Drake notched eight team fouls midway through the first half, but Hamilton got little benefit from it with the Aucklanders fouling only three more times in the half. In the second half it was point-for-point for most of the way, but Harhilton suffered setbacks when first, its New Zealand reserve forward, Eric Howard, notched
his fourth foul in the eleventh minute and then the team brought up eight team fouls in the thirteenth minute. Drake got to a four point lead at 65-61, but Hamilton levelled the scores time and again and it was not until there were just 42 seconds left on the clock that Logan was fouled and scored a free throw to give his team the winning lead at 70-69. Top scorers: Drake: B. Brumit 28, P: Logan 13, I. Rademakers 12; Hamilton, R. Philp 22, E. Howard 11, S. Agnew, 10. Canterbury and Nelson finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the league.
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Press, 16 November 1981, Page 3
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