Key Stage 3 Basketball Vs Thornden 5/12/13

Great Victory for St George

By William Hadley

St George’s beat Thornden by a mile scoring 42 to Thornden’s 22 in basketball.

The St George KS3 basketball team were filled with joy after their victory over Thornden at St George’s sports hall on the 5^th December 2013. Throughout the 1^st and 2^nd quarters St George were in the lead 16-12 but Thornden were closing the gap. Luckily for St George they kept on scoring to finish the league match 42-22.

The starting five were Ganymede (c), Theo, Christian, Jonathan and Nial. Subs were Joaquin, Finley and Luke.

Mr Guyer's team talk

The 1^st quarter started at 2:40. After just two minutes St George were 0-4 behind so coach Mr Grace called a time out. Throughout the 1^st quarter St George gave away four fouls and Thornden scored two out of the eight free throws. But St George  didn’t give up and scored a couple more hoops. At the end of the 1^st quarter St George were in the lead 8-6.

As the 2^nd quarter began, both teams scored making it 10-8. Soon after both teams had scored, Ganymede (c) was subbed for Joaquin. Then Joaquin was given a free throw from a foul and he scored two out of two making the score 12-8. Shortly after the free throw Nial was subbed for Finley and minutes later the 2^nd quarter was over. The score was 16-12 to St George.

At the end of the 2^nd quarter Mr Grace  said, ‘’I called a time out because we started off badly and needed to refresh our ideas.”

Before the 3^rd quarter started Theo and Joaquin were subbed for Ganymede (c) and Nial. Minutes ticked by where both teams were scoring continually. As Finley was subbed for Luke the score was 22-16 to St George. Soon after that Thornden missed both of their free throws and Nial was subbed for Theo. At the end of the 3^rd quarter the score was 32-22 to St George who had a ten point lead going into the final quarter.

As the 4^th quarter began Luke was subbed for Finley.  Points after points were being scored and when Theo was subbed for Joaquin the score was 38-26 to St George. Soon after Theo was subbed, Thornden also missed both of the free throws. Minutes later the match was over and St George had won 42-28 against Thornden.

Ganymede lay up

When the match was over St George wearing white and red and Thornden wearing yellow and black shook hands to conclude the basketball match. Ganymede said ‘’it went well but we need to improve a lot of things.” This match was referred by Mr Grace, a teacher at St George.