Sound basketball team

Press, 9 March 1984, Page 32

Sound basketball team

Three New Zealand representatives, John Rademakers, John Hill, and Bert Knops, are included in the 10-man Canterbury senior men’s basketball league team announced yesterday by the president of the Canterbury Basketball Association, Mr Peter Crowhen. There are no surprises, all the members of the team having played for Canterbury last season. The team will be captained by the American, Clyde Huntley, who will also help the manager-coach, Darrel Todd. Andy Bennett and Dave Usmar are two former national players included in what is a sound final squad.

The team is: Huntley

(Checkers), Hill, Lance Dixon and Dave Edmonds (Rangiora), Bennett, lan Webb and Chris Dodds (Y.M.C.A.), Usmar (University), and Rademakers and Knops (Aranui). Ten other players — a B team — have also been named as reserves. Alan Manco and Kelvin Duff, both of High School Old Boys, arie two members of an interesting squad. Both have been outstanding in club competitions, but have been previously unavailable for representative teams because of work commitments. The players are Hugh Thomson, Manco and Duff (Old Boys), Colin Crampton (University), Kory Ritsma (Aranui), Bev Halliman, Bede Hall (Mairehau), Bill Duggan

(Y.M.C.A.), and Alan Robson and Paul Hobbs (Rangiora). A former Nelson league player, Alan Campbell, who has recently moved to Christchurch, was unavailable because of injury.

An American serviceman, Halliman recently returned to the United States and is believed to be getting a discharge from the Navy before returning to Christchurch. The Canterbury men’s and women’s league teams will play Otago at Cowles Stadium on March 23. Return games will be played in Dunedin on April 7. On April 14 the men’s team will play Nelson at Nelson in the best of three games.