Difficult task faces Canty basketballers
The Canterbury men’s basketball team faces a difficult first-up assignment for the season when it plays one of Australia’s leading league teams, Eastside Billabong Spectres at Cowles Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Canterbury, winner of last season’s national Countrywide league title, has been In training since early January and is well forward. It will need to be because the Spectres were ranked fifth in the Australian league last season and contain some outstanding players. The Australian team will arrive in Christchurch on Saturday evening to start its tour which includes matches against other league teams in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth and Palmerston North. Australia’s champion club, Adelaide West End 36ers, will also tour New Zealand next month starting bn March 16, but the games,will be confined to Auckland, Hamilton, • New Plymouth and Palmers- 1
ton North. The new executive director of the New Zealand Basketball Federation, Mr Ross Williams, of Auckland, visited Christchurch this week and said that agreement had finally been reached with Television New Zealand over television rights for league matches this season. The final in Wellington will be televised live, while six matches will be screened on Saturday afternoons, as well as the women’s final. No decision has yet been made on telecasting the men’s semi-finals. The final of the Oceania zone Olympics qualification series will be televised direct from Christchurch on September 5. Dave Edmonds, a New Zealand, New Plymouth and former Canterbury player will not be available this season for the Canterbury squad. He is replaced by Bill Duggan, a swing man, and the Canterbury club’s leading scorer in Canterbury club competition last season.
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