WITH the countdown on until Hamilton’s Country Basketball League (CBL) return, Scott Miller and Dean Le Roy have been confirmed as joint coaches for the men’s team.

PORTLAND’S junior Coasters representative basketballers will take to the court in their first tournament for the season tomorrow in Hamilton.

FOUR of Portland’s youngest representative basketballers attended one of Basketball Victoria’s first talent pathways, competing in the under-12 Jamboree in Echuca last week.

RISING star in the basketball scene, Portland Coasters player Tyleah Barr continues to impress on the representative stage with selection to the Victorian team for the National Indigenous Basketball Tournament.

ST MARY’S basketball club couldn’t fail in the Hamilton basketball Association women’s division one grand final on Wednesday night, as the club had two teams competing for the premiership: Orange and Black, with Orange winning 34-26.

BARBER Boys White has convincingly defeated St Mary’s Orange, 50-32 to begin its reign as the kings of the Hamilton Basketball Association division one men’s competition.

IT was the penultimate week of the Hamilton Basketball Association senior season with preliminary finals setting up next week’s grand final match-ups.

THE first week of junior finals were played last week across all age groups.

HAMILTON has a new national champion in its midst, with Emily Iredell grabbing a gold medal as part of the School Sports Victoria Under-12 basketball team at the national championships in Perth last week

BARBER Babes has finished its Hamilton Basketball Association (HBA) women’s division one winter season on Tuesday with a huge upset of Minders in the final round of the season, 36-30.