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Basketball
Six qualify for Hope Trust Trophy final
BASKETBALL: After a full day of action at Meadowbank, six Edinburgh primary schools – Bruntsfield, Duddingston, James Gillespie’s, St Peter’s, Victoria and Flora Stevenson – have qualified for next month’s final of the Hope Trust Trophy.
Basketball: Lee Reilly leaves it late to pip Students on final buzzer
A MAGNIFICENT 44 points from Lee Reilly saved Edinburgh Kings when they were staring defeat in the face away to Glasgow University in the Scottish Basketball League.
Basketball: Ritchie’s hot form puts her in Scotland reckoning
Despite a heartbreak 63-60 overtime defeat by Glasgow University at the Pleasance on Wednesday, which gave Glasgow the minimum one-point advantage in their head-to-head aggregate, Edinburgh University have not yet given up all hope of fighting off relegation from the Northern Premier Division of the BUCS Championship.
Basketball: Close call
Edinburgh face Glasgow in the crunch game of the bottom two teams in the British Universities Northern Premier Basketball League at the Pleasance later today (5.30pm) knowing victory will secure their place in the top division again next season.
Basketball: Kats bounce back from Cup defeat to challenge for title
What a difference a week made for Edinburgh Kool Kats, who had surrendered the Scottish Women’s Basketball Cup rather tamely, beaten 72-60 by Glasgow Rocks in the final at the Pleasance last weekend.
Sandy’s Slam Dunk: East’s tilt at sixth cup success boosted by Marshall’s return
With their season probably on the line, Edinburgh Kool Kats coach Graham Gunn is looking for much tougher defence from his team when they line up for the second time in a week against Glasgow Rocks at St Maurice’s High, Cumbernauld on Sunday (12.20pm).
1 commentBasketball: Chopper is all geared up for Leeds clash
Edinburgh University men’s basketball coach Chopper Pettett will have a full-strength team available for the first time this season when the Capital students face the powerful Leeds Carnegie side at the Pleasance later today (5.30pm).
Basketball: Lesley Marshalled by family values as Phoenix net title
ONLY two trophies stayed in the Capital after basketball’s Scottish Cup Finals at the Pleasance at the weekend – but both successes offered much hope for the future.
Basketball: Saints end trophy drought with win over favourites
St Mirren upset Falkirk Fury to lift the Scottish Cup with an 88-68 victory in the final at The Pleasance in Edinburgh.
Basketball: Edinburgh Kool Kats eye their sixth Scottish Cup
Although Holders Edinburgh Kool Kats go into tomorrow’s Scottish Women’s Cup final against Glasgow Rocks as the slight underdogs on account of their recent league loss, coach Graham Gunn remains confident they can cope with their Cumbernauld-based rivals.
2 commentsKings enjoy comfortable win over Cup finalists Saints
ST MIRREN will need to give a considerably better account of themselves than they did against Edinburgh Kings in the Scottish Basketball League at Portobello at the weekend if they are avoid humiliation in the Scottish Cup final against Falkirk Fury at the Pleasance on Saturday.
Green left frustrated as Rocks throw away lead
BASKETBALL: Glasgow Rocks suffered a fourth quarter meltdown last night as Plymouth Raiders rallied from 21 down to steal an 85-78 win in the British Basketball League.
Basketball: The Saints are coming to challenge Capital clubs
THE British Universities Home Nations Games, otherwise known as BUGS, is to go ahead in Nottingham from April 16 to 19 and the Scottish Universities have wasted no time in arranging trials. Eighteen women will attend their first get-together at Holyrood HS and a men’s trial is fixed for Dundee University on Sunday from 11am-2pm.
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Weather for Edinburgh
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Light rain
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