Crucial basketball games for Canty
This week-end will decide which South Island senior men’s Countrywide league basketball team has to play promotion -relegation matches at Lower Hutt next week-end. 3ZM Canterbury and Dat-siiii-Bowater-Nelson both share the second-last spot in the league. Canterbury travels to Auckland this morning to play Drake Personnel this evening and Metro tomorrow afternoon. Nelson will play Napier, at Napier today. Although equal in competition points, Canterbury has twice beaten Nelson this season and under the rules of the New Zealand Basketball Federation, these wins will place it above Nelson should both teams end the league with an equal number of points. It is the last time this season the teams will have a chance to improve their rankings. Exchequer Saints
(Wellington) is assured of a place in the grand final at Lower Hutt next week-end and the other finalist — which will come from either Drake, Metro or Central Hotel-Napier — will be found after this weekend. Canterbury’s doubleheader in Auckland is a difficult assignment. Drake is fourth on the ladder after leading half-way through the league and could be Canterbury’s best bet for a week-end success. But Drake is due to click and Canterbury could be the team on the receiving end today. Metro has won 10 of its 14 matches, including a big win over Canterbury earlier in the winter. The Canterbury squad is unchanged, said the coach, Darrel Todd, last evening. A guard, Bede Hall, missed training on Wednesday because of a cold, but has recovered.
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