Double success for St Margaret’s at city basketball championships
St Margaret’s School achieved their hoop dreams today as they took home two winners’ trophies from the Development Basketball Championships for secondary schools held at Archbishop Beck’s impressive basketball centre.
Eight schools attended the finals’ evening having qualified from previous events and the standard of play was “extremely high” throughout as they battled it out for the honour of being crowned city champions.
Archbishop Beck came out on top in an extremely competitive Year 7 competition with St Margaret’s finishing first in both the Year 8 and Year 9 competition. The schools played each other in a round-robin format with the highlight being a brilliant finale between Calderstones and St Margaret’s for Year 9 boys.
Organiser Jay Watkinson, competition manager for the Liverpool Schools Sports Partnership, says: “It has been a brilliant tournament and I’ve been so impressed with the standard of play. A number of these players could easily go on to club basketball.
“St Margaret’s are clearly very strong but each and very school played well and most of the games were very close and really competitive.”
- NLA v ASFA
- Action from under the basket
- Dan Davies prepares to shoot
- An attempt at a three-pointer
- The competition was held at Archbishop Beck’s impressive facility
- Great concentration
- Great defence is a key factor in basketball
- Battling for possession
- Eyes on the ball
- Attacking at full pelt
- A great leap by a St Margaret’s star
- The matches were physically demanding
- Bursting forward
- Action from the Year 9 match between Calderstones and St Margaret’s
- A Calderstones player shows good technique
- Two points in the bag
- Archbishop Beck won the competition for Year 7 teams
- St Margaret’s Year 8 came out on top
- Year 9 champions St Margaret’s
- St Margaret’s v ASFA
- A St Margaret’s player makes a run
- Stretching for the ball in the Archbishop Beck v Broadgreen match
- Great control
- It was competitive throughout
- A Broadgreen player heads forward
- Battling for the ball
- Under 7s action
- An attack builds
- He shoots, he scores!
- A Cardinal Heenan player bursts forward
- Leaping for glory
- Searching for the perfect pass
- Outnumbered!
- A steady hand is required
- Great action from the Year 8 competition