Hawks basketball youth teams give Wildcats horror night

The Parramatta Basketball Association hosted the Illawarra Hawks men and women in Division 1 of the Youth League on Saturday night at the Auburn Basketball Centre (ABC). It would prove to be an ill-fated night for the Wildcats, who would lose both games as Illawarra won the Youth League women's game 91-55 and Youth League men's game 86-78.

The Wildcats Youth League women looked competitive at the start of their game but the Hawks would still lead at every break in play, gradually increasing the margin each quarter before finally crushing the home team 38-16, in the final quarter, to seal the 36-point win.

Amanda Ford hits one of the Wildcats few field goals; Photo courtesy of Noel Rowsell (www.photoexcellence.com.au)

The Wildcats youth league men led 42-39 at the main break against the Hawks but would unfortunately lose their way, over the next two quarters, to eventually fall by eight points.

YOUTH LEAGUE WOMEN: Illawarra Hawks 91 (T Tubaro 18, T Dusmanovic 15, K Smith 14) defeated Parramatta Wildcats 55 (R Adamson 14, E Adu 11, S Azzi 8)

The Hawks youth league women have won five from ten games and are in 7th position in the 13 team competition.

YOUTH LEAGUE MEN: Illawarra Hawks 86 (Z Delaney 18, S Mullan 18, D Potter 17) defeated Parramatta Wildcats 78 (M Musgrave 31, J Atherton 15, A Agang 13)

The Hawks men are running 9th in the 12 team competition with 3 wins from ten games.

For more State Youth League Basketball results go to: http://www.nswbasketball.net.au/events/events.htm

For more on Men’s State League Basketball and the Illawarra Hawks Men’s team go to http://www.nswbasketball.net.au/events/2009/SBL/Men/09D1MResults.htm

For more Illawarra basketball stories go to: http://wollongong.sportslive.com.au/index.pl?page=1370

Wollongong’s Premier Youth League 16s shock loss

In last weekend’s round 11, Wollongong’s Premier Youth League soccer under 16s had a shock loss to 6th placed Sydney Tigers by 3 – 1. The 16s still retain top spot on the ladder but Blacktown City is only two points adrift with a game in hand.

The18s continued their winning run with a hard fought 4 – 3 victory over the 10th placed Tigers. The team tops the table, 7 points clear of second placed Sutherland Sharks. After the latest matches, the under 15s dropped to 5th after their 2 – 1 loss to the Tigers who are in 10th spot. The 13s two nil win saw the team move to 4th position on the ladder. The 14s are the only Wollongong team outside the play off five, sitting 8th in the 13 team competition.

Results for the round played last week against Sydney Tigers were: 

Under 13: Wollongong won 2 nil
Under 14: Wollongong lost 4 - 3
Under 15: Wollongong lost 2 - 1 
Under 16: Wollongong lost 3 - 1
Under 18: Wollongong won 4 - 3

Wollongong teams play their next round against Bankstown City, at Elizabeth Park, Bellambi with the 13s beginning at 9 am on Saturday May 23. The 18s will play on Sunday May 24 at 10.30am at Hooka Creek Park prior to the Premier League Youth and Senior team games against Bankstown.

Previous SportsLive reports on the Wollongong Premier Youth League teams can be found at: http://wollongong.sportslive.com.au/index.pl?page=3462

More results and the draw can be found at http://www.soccernsw.com.au/index.php?id=78

Dapto Chiefs just overcome Kiama to remain unbeaten

Unbeaten competition leaders Dapto Chiefs fought out a 4-2 win over Kiama Braves in round 7 fixtures of the 2009 Illawarra Baseball League premiership. In other games Berkeley Eagles recorded their first win in three weeks with an 18-11 result over Pirates at Fred Finch Park, Berkeley and Wests Cardinals defeated Shoalhaven Mariners 10-0 at Cringila Community Park.

Braves starting pitcher Ben Griffin held Chiefs scoreless until the home team rallied in the fifth inning scoring all of their four runs. At this point the Braves offence had scored in the second and fourth innings on RBI hits by Josh Lenard and Chris Bernich.

Neither team scored in the remainder of the game, Chiefs pitcher Jarrett Commane playing an anchor role throwing a complete game while conceding 4 hits and one earned run and striking out 14 Braves hitters.
Griffin came out of the game having pitched 4.2 innings and conceding two earned runs on seven hits.

Berkeley Eagles were in trouble early being 9-1 in arrears after the third innings where the Bucs ran in six runs, two scoring on Corey Hayman’s double. The reply came in the fourth where seven runs were scored two coming from Chad Blanch’s double and two on John Allender’s fence clearing effort.

Pirates came back to tie the game at 11-11 in the sixth before Eagles got going in the seventh inning with five runs and a further two min the eighth and final innings.

In the biggest slugfest of the season Eagles outhit Pirates 18-12. Andrew Phelan was the game’s best hitter batting   4 / 5 with one RBI for Pirates while Sam Thornton was the most productive of five Eagles hitters who registered three hits each. Thornton recorded six RBI’s with Allender batting in four and Blanch batting in three.

Eagles relief pitcher Joe Anson recorded the best statistics on both teams with five innings pitcher for one earned run on three hits with six strikeouts.

Cardinals win over Mariners was set up by starting pitcher Jamie Simon who allowed no earned runs on three hits in five innings. Counterpart Josh Rowe allowed four earned runs on four hits in five innings.
Josh Dean headed Cardinals hitting with 2 / 4 and 3 RBI’s, Jarryd Sullivan batted 2 / 3.  Hayden Calvert batted 2 / 3 in Mariners total of four hits.

First Grade: Berkeley Eagles 18 Northern Pirates 11; Dapto Chiefs 4 Kiama Braves 2; Wests Cardinals 10 Shoalhaven Mariners 0
Second Grade: Eagles 8 Pirates 8; Braves 5 Chiefs 3; Cardinals 20 Mariners 8
Third Grade: Pirates 12 Eagles 5; Chiefs 13 Braves 3; Cardinals 20 Mariners 2
Minor League: Pirates 8 Chiefs 7; Cardinals 14 Warriors (5) 13; Warriors (4)25 Braves 8; Panthers (5)17 Panthers (4)10

In next weekend’s round eight fixtures the top two teams Dapto Chiefs and Wests Cardinals clash at Hector Harvey Reserve, Dapto and Berkeley Eagles play Shoalhaven Mariners at Eagles Field, Fred Finch Park, Berkeley. The remaining game will see Kiama Braves playing Northern Pirates at Gainsborough Reserve, Kiama Downs. First grade games commence at 2.00pm. (Frank Booth

For more Illawarra baseball stories go to: http://wollongong.sportslive.com.au/index.pl?page=3394

Basketball at Sydney’s World Masters games for social to elite teams

Sydney is hosting the 2009 World Masters Games and basketball is going to be taking part, utilising six venues across Sydney:
Penrith Valley Regional Sports Centre, Cambridge Park   
Sutherland Leisure Centre, Sutherland
Menai Indoor Sports Centre, Menai
Bankstown Basketball Stadium, Condell Park 
Hills Sports Stadium, Castle Hill
Thornleigh Indoor Sports Centre ‘The Brickpit’, Thornleigh

Divisions:
Men and Women 30+ and 35+ and possibly a wheelchair division
Men and Women 40+, 45+ and 50+
Men and Women 55+, 60+, 65+ and 70+

Competition Dates: 10-18 October 2009.
 
A Grade – Premier: This elite grade is for teams consisting of players with international or national experience. At least two players should have international experience (played for their country). The other team members are expected to be at a state/ province/ elite Club player level.

B Grade – Competitive: This grade is for those players who compete in a high standard of domestic level basketball, such as A Grade in their local competition, and athletes who have represented their club or town in state/ province competition.

C Grade – Recreational: This grade is for those players who participate in non-competitive and/or lower grade leagues and for social and casual players.

There will be only one grade for the 70+ age category.

Registrations for all 31 sports including basketball close on July 31. There are still plenty of opportunities to nominate your team. For more on the 2009 World Masters Games and the 31 sports go to: http://www.2009worldmasters.com/

NSW Sport & Recreation’s July Camps

To see what’s on offer in the July School holidays go to: http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/kidscamps/

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