Thursday 8th November: BOYS NATIONAL BASKETBALL

UNDER 14s NATIONAL SCHOOLS RESULT- GROUP STAGE
ANGMERING SPORTS COLLEGE 92 EASTBOURNE TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE 59

TOP SCORERSANGMERING- R. FRANCIS-39, J.CARTER-28.

ETC- B.ALSOP-15, T.BERRY-10, N.CARR-10, J.MARODZA-10,
C.MITCHELL-6, M.MULHERN-3, J.WALLIS-3, B.OLUSANYA-2.

Our year 9 team has been unbeaten in Eastbourne for the past two years. We have regularly beaten local schools by 50 points plus. So BBO entered the year 9 boys into the hardest competition in England, ‘The Nationals’.

We are in a group of 6, and the top 2 teams will qualify to the last 16.On Thursday, we travelled to Angmering Sports College, which has an excellent reputation for producing high quality teams and athletes.From the outset we knew that we were up against a very skilful and talented Angmering team.

It later was revealed that 2 of their players are in the England under 14 squad, and Francis is in the starting 5 for England!!I am so proud of all 10 of our players. They were committed, never gave up and scored 59 points.

Angmering had never given up more then 40 points in a game.Joe Marodza was the best point guard on show and stole the ball on numerous occasions.Ty Berry and Nathan Carr coped admirably whilst guarding Francis, and learnt a lot from the game.

Billy Alsop was MVP. Outstanding at both ends of the court, he performed superbly and top scored with 15 points.Matt Mulhern impressed on debut, James Sib worked the screen well. Jake Wallis played through injury and Bob, Cain and Michael picked up valuable rebounds and experience.BBO believes we have played one of the strongest teams in England who will reach the final 4.

Francis scored 39 points and had a superb all round game, he will go far in Basketball.Our boys stayed within 33 points and this has been a good grounding for our 4 games before Christmas. If we win our 4 remaining games then we will qualify in 2nd place. Again congratulations to the team, very proud even though it was loss.

I hope our players join local teams this season.
MVP- BILLY ALSOP “So much more to his performance than top scorer. A very good all round performance”. BBO.