SPORTS YEARBOOK 2011 (Including the 2009-2010 Review

the men’s team, struggling for
players, did not proceed past the
first round.
Women’s:
A fantastic season saw the
women’s team finished 3rd in the
premier division narrowly losing
out on second place in their final
Basketball Club
www.srcf.ucam.org/cubbc/
The Cambridge University
Basketball Club has two teams, a
men’s first (Blues) and a second
(Lions) team. Both team play in
BUCS league and cup
competitions at a fairly high
standard.The University team train
up to four times a week and
usually play at least one game per
week during the first two terms.
Each team competes in a Varsity
match which is held at the end
of February.
Varsity
21st Februrary 2010, Iffley Road
Sport Complex, Oxford
Oxford Blues 117-64 Cambridge
Blues
Oxford 2nd 61-50 Cambridge
Lions
Both Oxford teams showed
their strength and the reason
they are all ranked 1 division
higher than their Cambridge
counterparts during a
competitive but ultimately
disappointing weekend.
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match. Strong performances by
Karen Hird and Catherine Murphy
put them into the last 16 at the
BUCS individual Championships
again earning Full Blue status. The
women’s team also faired well in
the BUCS Cup, reaching the
quarter-finals.
Blues
The first team match of saw the
return of the England Universities
duo of Reed Doucette and
Stephen Danley - both college
players from the US and a key part
of an Oxford squad that finished
this year as the third best team in
the country.The Light Blues had
no choice but to be aggressive
early on to combat Oxford's size
advantage. Excellent strong inside
play from Richard Marting and
outside shooting from Chris Haar
and Milos Puzovic put the teams
level at the end of the first quarter.
Unfortunately, the first quarter
completely exhausted the Light
Blues and the Dark Blues looked
much fresher and keen to put the
game out of Cambridge’s reach. As
the match wore on it became
apparent just how fast and welldrilled
the Dark Blues were. Apart
for some good offensive one-onone
plays from Torsten Geelan the
Light Blues had no way of
stopping Oxford from getting
open shots and opening fast
breaks. Nevertheless, Cambridge
showed some excellent phases,
and with all of the Oxford starting
line-up leaving this year the future
looks brighter than the past. It will
be interesting to see how Oxford
fare without their star players
next season.
Lions
Cambridge Lions began the day as
perhaps the most favoured to
upset their rivals. A strong start to
the first quarter by the point
guard Lewis Cannon gave a small
but respectable advantage to the
Light Blues. He was followed by
strong rebounding from John
Feng and good inside play from
Oscar Wilsby. Dark Blues sacrificed
height on the court by choosing
to field players with good longrange
shooting ability.This reaped
the benefits and the teams went
to half-time level.The third quarter
scoring drought from Light Blues
and continued good long-range
shooting from the Dark Blues
allowed Oxford Twos to pull away.
The end result was a close 61-50
loss for the Light Blue team, but
having played the game without
their coach they came away fairly