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This week we will be competing in a further round of the league. Please download the Match Timetables in pdf format for further details. We hope that all parents and friends will come along to cheer our teams. Good luck to you all. See you on the courts.

03-12-2008 Match Timetables from 01 to 07 December.

Our heartiest congratulations to our girls for their outstanding performance as they won every match they played in the tournament. Our warmest thanks to The Colegio Nuryana for their excellent organisation as always, and especially to Luis Afonso, chief organiser of the Nyuyana basketball Club for making the whole occasion work so well. A fantastic weekend for our ‘minibasket’ and ‘infantil’ teams from both a sporting and social point of view. Our ‘preinfantil’ girls team took part in the Infantil Tournament and this was an excellent experience for them.
Day 1
Minibasket: Canterbury-Pureza Santa Cruz (67-14)
Infantil: Canterbury-La Salle Santa Cruz (68-12)
Day 2
Minibasket: Canterbury-Luther King (71-12)
Infantil: Canterbury-Luther King (70-29)
Day 3
Minibasket: Canterbury-Nuryana (34-20)
Infantil: Canterbury-Nuryana (53-34)

• Final: CANTERBURY – SANTA CRUZ (56-59)
The Final was played at 3.30 in the afternoon. Both teams were neck and neck throughout the whole match. First one then the other was ahead on the scoreboard until at the end of the first quarter the LIONS were leading by 5 points. It was noticeable at times that this was the final match in a long tournament and the defence play was not as good as in the earlier matches. Canterbury attacks also lost some drive and energy, the game became erratic and too many easy shots were missed. The second half carried en in much the same fashion until CANTERBURY were 10 points ahead at the end of the 3rd quarter. SANTA CRUZ en the other hand benefitted from their superior physical strength, kept up strong counter attacks and had more success with the rebounds. This, added to the easy shots that CANTERBURY missed soon meant that their opponents crept up little by little until they finally got ahead. In the last minute and a half, CANTERBURY lost three attacks with shots under the net and lost the game 56-59
We should learn from this defeat which left us disappointed, but at the same time we can be satisfied with the general high level of the CANTERBURY team throughout the whole tournament.
We should mention that our Canterbury Lion Eduardo Perez was nominated the best individual player in the Tournament.

Sunday 5th October : CANTERBURY – VIRGEN DEL MAR (semi-final) y CANTERBURY – NURYANA (3º - 4º puesto)
La sem- final at 09.00 o’clock in the morning was our worst match and the team suddenly went to pieces. It was a question of wanting and not being able to from the beginning to the end. We were finally beaten by 26 points in a match which was deemed to be a game against a similar rival. This meant a play off for the 3rd or 4th position.
Both times were fairly equal at the beginning and the scoreboard showed first one then the other ahead, The fact that all the players had played five matches in three days began to show and the tiredness crept in at odd moments. However the Lions played a good second half with some great moves and the final score was Canterbury – Nuryana (61-48)
The tournament was won by Santo Domingo in a tough match between the two finalists: Santo Domingo - Virgen del Mar (55-47)

The Basket Player Licence comes in two formats:
• Excel: you can fill this in and then print it out..
• PDF : you can print this and then fill it in by hand..

25-09-2008 FBGC Solicitud de licencia 2008-2009.pdf

25-09-2008 FBGC Solicitud de licencia 2008-2009.excel

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This summer two of our players, Claudia Quevedo and Alberto Moreno, have been selected by the Spanish Basketball Federation to be part of the Spanish Selection in the age group. The meeting will take place in Collel, Girona-Cataluña between the 30th July and the 6th August.
We would like to congratulate both the players and their trainers for their constant hard work which has enabled them to obtain this success.