North Otago U13 Basketball

By Olivia Brien | Posted: Wednesday July 25, 2018

Over the holidays, students from OIS played in the North Otago Network Waitaki basketball competition.

In the middle weekend of the holidays students from Oamaru Intermediate were involved in playing basketball for North Otago. The tournament ran from Friday through to Sunday with teams in the competition from as far as Kaiapoi and North Canterbury. 

The North Otago Girls U13 team included Mya Nicol, Grace Keno, Jayde Read, Georgia Marris, Jorja Belt and Maia Timpson. This team were undefeated all tournament with one of their games winning 65-2 against South Canterbury B. The girls went through to beat Mid Canterbury in the final, therefore finished the champions!

The North Otago U13 Boys team included Baxter Lewis, Thomas Linares-Fontona, Kaleb Kiwara, Luke Acheson, Alex Wilson and Korban Selfe. The boys had some good games and overall placed 4th in their grade.