Vic Champions Crowned
Victorian junior basketball fans were treated to an awesome display of basketball on Friday evening at the Victorian Championship Grand Finals.
In excess of 2000 spectators filled the stands at MSAC to see 12 closely contested games battled out across all 5 age groups.
On the girls side, Bulleen were very impressive, claiming two titles in both the U12 and U14 age groups. Melbourne rounded off their strong season taking away both the U16 and U18 titles. The U20 girls final was very tight between Diamond Valley and Kilsyth, the game was close right the way through with Diamond Valley getting there in the end, winning by 7 points.
“It was an awesome night of basketball, we saw a number of games go right down to the wire.” VJBL Chairman Niall Quinn said, “It was great to see such a large spread of Associations battling it out for the coveted VC Championship. MSAC was bursting at the seams, it was great to see such a large amount of people come out to see some great games, the best junior basketball this state has to offer."
The boys grades produced a couple of real nail biters. There was not a spare set within view of the U18 boys game between Melbourne and Waverley. The lead changed hands many times throughout the game but it was Waverley who sunk the winning basketball, taking the Championship 62-60.
Games went live on the net with full live stats recorded and displayed on vjbl.com.au. “Live Stats was an added feature for the VC finals this year, it enabled all of those basketball fans who were unable to get out to the game to follow online” Quinn said.
A brief summary of results are as follows:
U12 Girls - Bulleen 50 def Hawthorn 39
U12 Boys - Bulleen 57 def Blackburn 44
U14 Girls - Bulleen 61 def Diamond Valley 59
U14 Boys - Knox 60 def Bulleen 43
U16 Girls - Melbourne 57 def Dandenong 40
U16 Boys - Werribee 56 def Knox 46
U18 Girls Championship - Melbourne 50 def Knox 43
U18 Boys Championship - Waverley 62 def Melbourne 60
U18 Girls Championship Reserve - Sandringham 51 def Nunawading2 45
U18 Boys Championship Reserve - Frankston 69 def Ringwood 51
U20 Girls - Diamond Valley 49 def Kilsyth 42
For more details including game stats, follow the links from the VJBL homepage.
