Macca's Week Five Update - Canterbury Basketball Canterbury Basketball

We’re nearing the halfway point of the season, and it is definitely make or break time for some teams!

Round Five is the final slate of games scheduled before the Thomson Trophy’s Top Division splits into pools of the upper and lower six teams. Middleton Grange and Christ’s College play each other, and will both make it through, unless St. Bede’s can upset Cashmere. In the other pool it is a lot tougher, with the game between Rangiora and St. Thomas likely deciding which team will join the Spartans and St. Andrew’s in the top pool (but these two teams also need to take care of business too!)

St. Andrew’s boys are heading to play Ashburton College Monday night at 7pm, with their girls putting the Phil Burns Cup up for grabs in Ashburton tomorrow night, at 5:30pm

These schools are hosting double-headers (at 5:15pm and 7:00pm):

Avonside and Shirley are hosting Rangi Ruru and Hillmorton at their new site
Hornby High’s new gym will have both the Whelan and Thomson teams from Papanui coming
Lincoln High has the Burnside girls, then the boys from Te Pā O Rākaihautū
Rangiora High has both of our Games of the Week – first the boys play against St. Thomas, then the Whelan Trophy team plays against Christchurch Girls’ High
Riccarton High has Cashmere’s girls, and then Rangiora New Life’s boys
Middleton Grange also has two fantastic games – up against the unbeaten Kaiapoi Whelan team, and then a tough Christ’s College squad

In single game 5:15pm tip-offs we have the following games scheduled:

Linwood college has a match against their neighbours from Cathedral College
Villa Maria will host Ellesmere College

7:00pm also has some intriguing match-ups:

Christchurch Boys’ High faces off against Burnside as both teams look to build some momentum heading into the second half of the season
Newcomers in 2019 Hagley are hosting Kaiapoi, with both teams sitting at 1-2
St. Bede’s will try and win the Dowson Cup off of Cashmere