Boys' Basketball Tournament

On Wednesday Boys' Basketball Team was thrown in the deep end as they faced d' Overbroeck's and Oxford Hoops U15s National League Team in a Mini-Triangular Tournament.

St. Clare's were without newly appointed captain Rokas Augunas, experienced guard Emilis Romaskevicius and 2nd year Nicola, however, St. Clare's has a very committed and hard working group of players quickly becoming a solid team.

The St. Clare's team: Jules Maurice Marcel Kleitman; Abimbola Ayeyemi; Christopher Bray; Thomas Cox; Tinnabhand Patana-Anake; Amir Amangeldi; Vitas Janukonis.

d' Overbroeck's had a new team, better than last year, hard working and eager, with some height and good scoring skills. Oxford Hoops have a solid team of 15 year olds who play in the National League representing Oxford.

The first game was between St. Clare's and d' Overbroeck's. St. Clare's started hard, with tough defensive pressure creating easy scoring opportunities, soon Jules and Vitas began to connect and before we knew St. Clare's were up 9-0. Abimbola and Thomas connected with Amir to come up with great plays whilst Tinnabhand and Chris took advantage of the openings on the base line to make some well earned baskets. St. Clare's took the game 26-13 with Vitas scoring 12 points.

Then d' Overbroeck's played Oxford Hoops. D' Overbroeck's were able to use their height more, scoring almost at will against the much smaller Hoops team. However, a few changes made and Hoops managed to get the game back to win it in the last minute by 2 points.

The last game was between St. Clare's and Hoops, at this stage Hoops were warm and already in game mode, whilst St. Clare's were coming in cold; however, once again Vitas and Amir proved to be a real handful, but Hoops also had players that gave St. Clare's a real hard time. Defensively, Hoops were better prepared and when they pushed to a full court press, they stole the ball 2 times to win the game by 1 point.

Report by Franky Marulanda

October