oracle
Years ago
girls open A ko blog
girls comp was of good standard - div 1 level.
round robin stage -
Loretto opened well with a strong team and a win over st aloysius (SAC were well up and fell over) the shorter timed games suiting Loretto who fielded a mainly Norwood line up.
golden Grove won a close game over Unley - Golden Grove looking very strong with a mainly North Div 1 line up.
Unley competitive - but down 2 star players (wardill and one other) and a lot of younger players.
Golden Grove just over Mt gambier by 1 in a tight game- it was clear Mt gambier were going to struggle in the tall department with no real 5 players in there line up and grove with a quality 5 player.
loreto over cabra in a tight game - very physical. loretto's outside shooting on song for a win.
st aloysius over cabra by 20 points - no second hald fade out for SAC this time.
unley over mt gambier - didnt see that game - but unley won.
standing after round robin
group a)
golden grove
unley
mt gambier
group b)
loreto
st aloysius
cabra
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cross overs / position play offs
cabra defeated mt gambier for 5v6 spot
st aloysius defeated golden grove easily (around 30 points i think)
golden grove same as loretto v strong starters but not a lot of depth whilst st aloysius very deep all 10 players very experienced and div 1 players at some stage.
st aloysius through to GF
loreto v unley
coaching maestro wayne beaumont again nearly pulled off a huge upset.
loreto suffering the same fate as golden grove - starters tiring.
unley however did extremely well - missing 2 guns they pushed loretto down to the wire and were 1 point down with 45 secs to play - after elading all game. a huge rejection from nowhere by an unley player looked enough - but some cool forced foul shooting by loreto got them over the line in the clutch.
Unley are to be complemented on doing so well with a young crew and were well coached.
loretto through to GF
3v4 play off
unley over golden grove in a close game - golden grove with injury/ies and tiring - unley did well.
1v2 GF
st aloysius convincingly defeated loreto by 50 points - in GF - hard to imagine the result from earlier in the day - SAC bench depth too strong with div 1 players starting on bench. (Former lightning player kamala lamshed coaching SAC)
so final standings -
1) st aloysius (gets the SA seed in championship grade at BA Nationals in Geelong in December)
v. strong / dep team
2 north
2 sturt
2 west
4 woodville players
2) Loreto - definitely good enough line up for nats.
Norwood crew
3) Unley - great effort - they usually go to nats
sturt / forestville mix
4) Golden grove - ? why did they not go to nats last year as well / good team
all north
5) cabra - probably underacheived a bit - but the competition was tough - no room for error - they usually go to nats.
tigers / sturt mix
6) mt gambier - should attend nats (only over at Geelong)- need a tall or two - put some good team work together at times.
sa country
NB - great to see tracey gahan there for the presentation - well done lightning front office / supporting young womens' basketball.