Basketball, Rugby League, Soccer, Games and Camps

Maitland captures Newcastle Hunters in Waratah Basketball / Junior Rugby League round 7 rescheduled / Northern duo in Young Socceroos camp / Kids camps / Register for World Games

Maitland captures Newcastle Hunters in Waratah Basketball

In last weekend’s Waratah Australian Basketball local derby between the Maitland Mustangs and Newcastle Hunters men’s teams the Mustangs proved too strong for the bottom placed Hunters.

Although the Hunters finished the third quarter leading by 22 to 19 this proved to be a false dawn. The Mustangs took control in the second and third quarters scoring 28 points in each while the Hunters could only manage 16 and 18 points respectively. Going into the final quarter the Mustangs led by 75 to 56. Although Newcastle won the last quarter by 29 to 27 it was too late and the Maitland ran out easy winners 102 – 85.

Top scorers for Maitland were Andrew Mortimore (27), Daniel Proctor (24) and Joshua Clifford (18). For Newcastle Mathew McGovern scored 28 while Lachlan Harben made 14 and John Martin 12.

Next Saturday, July 4, the 8th placed Mustangs take on Bankstown Bruins at the Maitland Federation Centre at 6pm. The Newcastle Hunters face the Sutherland Sharks at the Newcastle Basketball Stadium on the same day with the women’s game tipping off at 3pm and the men’s at 7pm.

For more on WABL basketball including the Maitland Mustangs go to: http://www.waratah.basketball.net.au/fs_home.asp

For other basketball stories on representative and wheelchair basketball as well as other districts go to: http://sportslive.com.au/index.pl?page=288

Newcastle Schoolboys Junior Rugby League

Deferred round 7 games are to be played on Sunday 5th July.

To find out the latest news for Schoolboys Rugby League in Newcastle go to:
http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=7-2358-0-0-0

Northern Duo Get Start in Next Young Socceroos Camp

Qantas Next Young Socceroos Head Coach Jan Versleijen has selected a 25-player squad for a training camp in Sydney from Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July, including Wallsend's James Virgili and Merwether's Jacob Pepper, as part of preparations for the upcoming ASEAN Football Federation U19 Youth Championships which will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from 4-16 August 2009.

“This is a new start for a new group of players that will now begin a two-year campaign to qualify for the 2011 FIFA U20 World Cup,” said Versleijen.

“It’s always exciting to work with these elite youth players for the first time and over the next six training sessions we will find out what sort of quality we have.

“The ASEAN tournament in August will be their first major test at this level and from then on we can focus on the qualification process towards the next World Cup," concluded Versleijen.
Later in the year, the Qantas Next Young Socceroos will compete at the AFC U19 Youth Championships Qualifier Tournament in Jakarta, with the top three teams advancing to the AFC U19 Youth Championships which will be held in 2010.

(The Qantas Next Young Socceroos Squad consists of players that were born on or after 1 January 1991)

Zachary Anderson (QAS/Gold Coast United Youth), Terry Antonis (Marconi, NSW), Kearyn Baccus (Real Mallorca, Spain), Mitchell Bevan (Gold Coast United Youth), Mark Birighitti (gk) (Adelaide United), Jacob Borg (Wollongong, NSW), Daniel Bowles (Brisbane Roar Youth), Jason Davidson (Hume City, Victoria), Nicholas Feely (gk) (Cockburn City, WA/Perth Glory Youth), Nicholas Fitzgerald (Blacktown City, NSW), Petar Franjic (Melbourne Knights, VIC), Joshua Groenewald (Melbourne Knights, Vic), Bernie Ibini-Isei (Blacktown City, NSW), Mathew Leckie (Bulleen Lions, VIC), Steven Lustica (Gold Coast United), Patrick Meehan (Sheffield Wednesday, England), Alexander Pearson (gk) (Perth Glory Youth), Jacob Pepper (NNSW/Newcastle Jets Youth), Dimitrios Petratos (Penrith, NSW), David Pollard (uncontracted), Mathew Ryan (gk) (Blacktown City, NSW), Koh Satake (QAS/Gold Coast United Youth), Kliment Taseski (Altona Magic, VIC), Lawrence Thomas (gk) (AIS), James Virgili (NNSW/Newcastle Jets Youth).

For links to clubs and information on Newcastle soccer competitions go to: http://www.isport.com.au/soccer/npssa/. Newcastle Football is one of six associations under the umbrella of Northern NSW Football. The other Associations are Football Far North Coast; Football Mid North Coast; Hunter Valley Football; Macquarie Football; North Coast Football; Northern Inland Football.

To find out more details and latest news for Northern NSW Football including inter-district competitions go to: http://www.northernnswfootball.com.au

What's on around NSW with Sport and Recreation

NSW Sport and Recreation runs programs that will help you get active, improve your fitness or try a new sport. For more details of what’s on in the region go to: http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/active/whatson.asp

Register for Sydney’s World Masters Games in October

There is still time for Newcastle sportsmen and women to register for Sydney’s World Masters Games in Sydney. Over 6700 people have registered for the World Masters games in Sydney on October 10 -18, 2009. Over 28 sports will cater for participants of varying standards and ages.

For example, tennis has singles, doubles and mixed doubles in ten year age brackets from 30+ to 80+ with A grade for competition players and B grade for social players and beginners. Basketball will cater for social to elite teams from 30+ to 70+ in 5 year ranges.

Other sports include archery, basketball, football (soccer), netball, swimming and touch football

Registrations close on July 31. For more details go to the World Games web site: http://www.2009worldmasters.com/default.aspx

NSW Sport & Recreation’s July Camps

To see what’s on offer in the July School holidays go to: http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/kidscamps/