SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 07, Issue 93, 25 July 1944, Page 6

SCHOOL BASKETBALL

INTER-DISTRICT GAMES

WHAKATANE DEFEATS KATIKATI On Thursday, July 1•» the first XV and A and B basketball teams from the. Whakatane District High School journeyed to Katikati for matches against the Katikati school teams. Though skies were overcast, and one or two passing showers occurred during the matches, conditions generally Avere good and thoroughly enjoyable games resulted.

The A basketball match was a good fast game, very interesting to Avateh and clo.scly contested. The Whakatane team proved superior in quick short passes down the field, and showed more accurate, goaling. The B team also played a good game, and scored a fairly easy win ovei their opponents. Team work showed improvement in both the W hakatane teams. The final scores were.: A teams: Whakatane 12. Katikati G. . B teams: Whakatane 22. Katikati 12. , it was the first occasion on which Wh'akatane's first fifteen had played together in a match. bu?t; flue combinatiion. developed in practice games produced good results. The two packs of forwards were fairly evenly matched, Katikati packing better and securing the ball in more, of the set scrums, while Whakatane prevailed in the loose. The Whakatane backs were definitely superior to their opponents, however,, and among them scored all the team's points. In spite of a certain amount of faulty handling and poor tackling they were quicker off the mark, more skilled in pcnetrat-i ing gaps in tlie defence, and with superior speed were on several occasions able to outpace their opponents. The final score was 132-14, tries for Whakatane being scored by Cameron (3), Rutherford (2), Delves (2) and Ticpa, and conversions made by M. Davis (2), Cameron ami Ticpa.