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Losers & Dragons Win GT CVL 2008
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| 2008 female Champions, The Dragons |
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The 2008 Game Time CVL winners are the Losers from the junior league and the Dragons from the female league. The final CVL was one of the best as the Yummy Mummy's recruited a gem of a player in Caroline Slasor, who scored 18 points in the event and helped to produce the teams first and only victory of the season. It could have been two wins for the mum's but for a last second winning shot from Charlie Collins against the Jordettes. Young Hannah Barnes made her first basket of the tournament and was so excited by her great shot, she then managed to score an own goal!
The Losers have been far and away the most impressive unit in the junior league. Their team play has been brilliant with all players involved and such was their dominance that they actually won the league last month and are 22pts ahead of the Champs.
In the final months CVL it was all action in both the junior male league and the female league. Attention this month was uncontrollably drawn to the female league as three teams in Dragons, Dodgers and Jordettes were all contending to lift the title and bottom placed Yummy Mummy's were still looking for their first win.
The Dragons got off to the best possible start with two wins from a shoot out with the Jordettes, due to previous drawn games. Cherydan Gouldthorp beat Stephanie Palmer in the shoot out which put the Dragons into a comfortable lead, although it wouldn't be plain sailing as injuries to star players Gouldthorp and Claire Smith affected their play down the line. Dragons only managed to win one game although it was a convincing 22-12 victory over their title rivals Jordettes which meant the Dragons would now be crowned the 2008 female champions of the Game Time CVL.
The Yummy Mummy's produced one of the most exciting games of the year against the Jordettes as Tracy Bewick and new signing Caroline Slasor shocked the Jordettes by not only scoring consistently, but also leading in the game and with 30 seconds left the scores were 16-16. Only the heroic displays from Charlie Collins brought the Jordettes victory as she hit the final 6pts including the winning shot.
The Yummy Mummy's, confidence boosted from their last display went on to win their final game against the Champions; Dragons. Caroline Slasor was again in form with 6pts to tie the game 8-8 and force a shoot out. Cherydan Gouldthorp, who had already won two today went against Tracy Bewick and when Gouldthorp missed her first shot , Bewick capitalised on the error to sail a shot into the net to award the ecstatic Yummy Mummy's their first win of the season.
In the junior league, a determined looking Lions overcame the already crowned Champions, The Losers 28-12 Philip Findlay hit 16pts with Dan Brown adding 10 to beat the Champions, who had only lost one game all season previous to this. The Losers though, got back into their usual stride, winning their next three games to extend their lead at the top of the table to an incredible 22pts.
With the title already decided it was a case of the other three teams chasing the runner up spot and although the Lions started in splendid fashion against the Champions, they struggled to repeat the same dominance in their following games.
In the final game between the Lions and The Champs, a game that would decide who would finish in second place, Dan Brown and Philip Findlay combined well to hit 6pts each, but some good defence by Oliver Clark and a super display from Nathan Duff, who hit all 12pts took the game into a shoot out and this was won by Duff and The Champs to earn the honour of runner up, just 2pts ahead of the Lions.
The leading scorers accolade was earned by Philip Findlay on 184pts and Stephanie Edwards on 150pts. Marshall Patterson and Nathan Duff, who joint top scored this month with 38 moved into 3rd and 4th place respectively with Patrick O'Connor, absent from the final event remaining in second place. In the female league, Katie Lamb was this month's top scorer with 30pts and moved into second place, 4pts ahead of Cherydan Gouldthorp.
The players can now look forward to the plush presentation evening on 24th May to receive further awards and trophies.
A summer league is being planned and the GT CVL will return in September. New players and teams are always welcome and can start coming to training now, which will continue throughout summer. Contact Game Time on 01642 814221 or visit www.game-time.co.uk for more details.
Final Tables
Junior League
Team played won lost pts
1 Losers 22 20 2 62
2 The Champs 22 9 13 40
3 Lions 22 8 14 38
4 Tigers 18 5 13 28
Female League
Team played won lost pts
1 Dragons 19 13 6 45
2 Dodgers 19 12 7 43
3 Jordettes 19 10 9 39
4 Yummy Mummys 19 1 18 21
A special thank you to all who have helped make the CVL such a huge success, in particular Arash Selahi, Phil Hale and Richy Keirl for refereeing and David Whitney, Gordon Barnes, Matthew Brown and Michael Peddie for scoring. Without their efforts the events would not be possible.
4:08pm Tuesday 1st April 2008
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