Horowhenua Basketball Teams Do Well At Oroua Downs

Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 9

Horowhenua Basketball Teams Do Well At Oroua Downs

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At Oroua Downs on Saturday Horowhenua A and p \ basketball teams played their annual fixture with Te Kaw^u,' 1 the senior A team defeating Te Kawau 19—13 and the' B team drawing 11-all with their opponents. The A team showed that it had benefited by the experience gained in its match against Hutt Valley the previous week, a weakness of that game— interception— being much improved on Saturday. In fact the Horowhenua girls' inter-. ception of the ball was the outstanding feature of the game and was particularly noticeable in the centre and defence • sections of the team. The attacking tactics of the team were a pleasure to witness.

Again and again as the ball was P'ssed by the Te Kawau centres \:e Horowhenua centres anticipated the movement of their oppjnmts, and reversed play to send riie baii moving rapidly towards heir own forward third. Here one :ou d mention the only fault of the Horowhenua centres. They were often slow to get invo position a player was penalised for aelding the ball longer than three s.conas. However, the centres are io be cempiirnented on o/ercommg their worsb fault, their slowness to a.ttack. ' The defence prayers did splendid work preventing Te Kawau for-ward-s from scoring. Here again good interception prevented the home team from scoring -many a goa.. The work of M. Winiata and J. Roberts in this section was outstanding. They were ably supported by J. Parr, who has as yet failed j to dispiay her full ability. This p ayer has given glimpses of splendid anticipation which, unfortunate y, has not been shown to date in representative games. . These .hree defence piayers, however, should prove a vaiuab'e trio and do i good work f ir Horowhenua. at the jriew Zealand tournament. Brilliance In Forwards. The forwards of the A team had their brilliant momsnts and both |J. MeClune and M. Dome scored Isome very good long distance goals. i rhese occasions unfortunateiy were I mariried by their inabi ity to score jfrom easy flis .ances. Care and con■centration are needed to shoot all goa s whether from an easy angle or from a difficult one. There was much improvement in the forward p^ay and this section wiri hold i.s own at Dunedin J. Winiata, the other forward and eaptain of the team, again showed herself as an outstanding piayer. She is an unselfish forward, who.