Basketball: Hoop hoop hooray for Portobello as basketball stars are on a High

Portobello High School-based players were prominent in both Austria and Israel in a superb weekend for British basketball.

Scotland, steered by Edinburgh Kings junior coach Doug Reilly, achieved one of their best-ever international results when they upset Hungary 46-38 to record their first win in the Euro B Under-18 men's Championship in Tel Aviv.

In an incredibly tense finish in which the final quarter score was tied just 2-2, Scotland were led by 16 points from Falkirk's Ali Fraser and ten from Reilly's younger son Lee, who added five rebounds and a superb six assists. Meanwhile in Kavadarci in Macedonia, Great Britain under-20 women, having already clinched promotion to Euro A by reaching the final with a superb 59-40 win over Portugal, went on to capture the Euro B title for the very first time, beating favourites the Slovak Republic 47-46 after being 25-14 up at half-time. "That's an amazing result," said GB senior women's team manager Lucy Power, whose team including Porty High FP Rose Anderson were beaten twice by the Dutch in the Netherlands at the weekend.

Marie Buchan (Falkirk Fury) top-scored with 13 points while another Porty High FP Becca Allison (Edinburgh Kool Kats) led the rebounds with nine. Buchan and Allison, both students at Old Dominion University in Virginia, have shown increasing confidence in their GB role. Allison had 26 minutes on court in the 59-40 semi-final win over Portugal, scoring eight points, taking five rebounds and providing four assists.