Indoor Basketball Reps Won All Three Games
A Taupo Men's Indoor Basketball Association teani w a s undefeated after a series of three games in tlie Bay of Plenty regional tournaI ment at Whakatane, on Saturday. In these games, several young players were given the opportunity to gain ex- ! perience in higher grade basketball. In the first game, which I was against Murupara, there was very little between the two teams in the first half, but after the interval Taupo began to : find their feet. Murupara could not make | any more points and Taupo [ ran out the winners by 26 points to eight.
f The game between Whak- | atane No. 2 and Taupo saw j some of the local lads really ( have a scoring spree, S. j Crowther 26 and W. Blackbourne 20 being top scorers. The Taupo-Tfc Puke game with the score 12 points to eight in Taupo's favjour at half-time could have j swung either way. Howj ever, Taupo came alive in i the second half to run out the winners by a margin of 14 points. The Taupo representatives were K. For sy the, L. j Dance, J. Dance, P. Flintoff, j D. Woodney, W. Blaek1 bourne, G. Furlong, R. Lew- | es, J. Delany and S. Crow- : ther. Results: Taupo 28, Muru- | para 8; Taupo 65, Whaka- | tane No. 2 20; Taupo 30, Te Puke 16.
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Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 41, 27 May 1965, Page 7
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