Top basket tourneys

Press, 26 August 1986, Page 8

Top basket tourneys

Most of the younger members of the Canterbury under-23 men’s basketball team had excellent tournaments at the New Zealand championship at Stoke, Nelson, at the week-end. Admiral Lodge players, Terry Brunel and Mark Rainbird, both scored 20 or more individual points at various times. Rainbird got 20 points in the first match of the tournament when Canterbury defeated Nelson 94-60.

Brunel high scored for the province when he gained 25 points in Canterbury’s 94-77 success over New Plymouth. Canterbury lost only one of its five games in the round-robin tournament, tying with Wellington and Palmerston North. However, after the countback, the two North Island sides were chosen for the play-off.

Wellington won 77-66 and Canterbury was placed third. The placings are still subject to a report over the alleged nonregistration of one of the Wellington players. Against Nelson, a league player, Chris Simpson, scored 18 points for Canterbury, Brunel 18, and Andrew Ellis, Paul Duggan and Chris Forbister, 10 each. In its only loss, to Wellington, Simpson got 19, Ralph Lattimore 15 and

Rainbird 11. Brunel’s 25 points in Canterbury’s 9477 win over New Plymouth was followed by Deidrich van Heyningen, a Burnside High School pupil, getting 13 as well as Forbister, while Lattimore scored 12.

Canterbury’s biggest win was against Marlborough, 105-42, although Canterbury led by only

41-31 at half-time. Simpson top scored with 17, and other leading scorers were Duggan 13, Brunel 11, and David Grocott, Ellis and van Heyningen, all with 10 points. Canterbury’s last win was its best It defeated a strong Palmerston North side, 70-64, with Simpson getting 16 and Brunel and Heyningen 14 apiece.