BETTER PERFORMANCE ON THE SECOND DAY BY KERALA IN HOOPATHON SERIES 2ND MATCH AT THRISSUR
08/11/2017
Kerala Showed a much better performance on second day as Ringwood Hawks, Melbourne Australia beat Kerala Women All-Star Team to registered their second straight victory on the 2nd match of the International Hoopathon Series 2017 at VKK Menon Indoor Stadium and Geared up for the 3rd Test match to Kottayam New Indoor Stadium with Much more confidence
Kerala Started today against Australian team with 5-0 lead but Australian experience took them back again back into the game and ended up the second quarter with 17-10 lead The second quarter was evenly poised and even Kerala took a 1 point lead ended up the 1st half 33-27b
The third quarter Kerala Played much better performance and reduced the lead to 1 point trailing 47-48 before losing up the match to 63-70
Kerala guest International from Maharashtra Shireen Limaye was leading scorer for Kerala with 17 points and for Australian Hawks, their experienced cassia Milhako lead the scoring with 26 points
Detailed Score
Ring wood hawks Australia-70(Cassidy Mihalko26, Danielle None10, Kate Spillane10) bt Kerala All-Star team-63 (Shireene limaye17, Shilji George12, Anjna PG10)
UP Coming matches
a) Nov 9th – DSC Indoor Stadium, Kottayam
b) Nov 11th – Jimmy George Indoor Stadium, Trivandrum
c) Nov 12th – VKN Menon Indoor Stadium, Calicut
d) INR 50 concessional tickets only for Students are available at the Stadiums
About Hoopathon Series
Team Rebound (a registered NGO of ex-Basketball players) & the Kerala Basketball Association will be organizing an International Hoopathon Series 2017 which would include a 5 Match Series between the current National Champions Kerala Women All-Star Team & the BIGV Australian League Club Team Ringwood Hawks, Melbourne at 5 cities in Kerala. The Basketball Federation of India & Basketball Australia is extending full support along with Kerala State Sports Council as well as Directorate of Sports for this event.
This series is a follow-up activity involving more school children including those who were part of the Kerala Hoopathon which was launched on Dec 21st, 2016 during the occasion of the 125th Birthday of Basketball as an initiative of Team Rebound to generate interest amongst the public to support the game of Basketball. As part of version1 of the Kerala Hoopathon, around 12,500 young first-time basketball players from 125 schools across 14 Districts surpassed the target of scoring 1,25,000 points simultaneously within 1 hour and achieved a score of 1,59,652 points. The Kerala Hoopathon was well received by children across all sectors of schools and received tremendous media support as part of an innovative campaign on the 125th Jubilee occasion with active involvement of the Kerala Basketball Association & various supporting partner