Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:27

U16 Basketball

U16 Basketball

The U16 basketball team travelled to Galway to play Castlerea Community Scoil and Carraroe. In the first game against castlerea, the boys found the going difficult against their much more experienced opponents. Despite a great effort from Cillian Devitt with 10 points, their opponents were too strong and ended up winners on a final score of 32 19.

In the second game of the tournament, a much improved performance from the CBS boys almost got them their first victory. After a slow start, we found ourselves trailing 15-2 at half time. However, the second half was when this group of players finally started to play some exciting basketball and with scores from Ciarán McMahon and Ryan Barry, the CBS made a great comeback in the second half. With 2 minutes to go the game was in the balance but Carraroe finished stronger and won on a final scoreline of 30-28. This was a much improved performance from these lads and sets them up for the rest of the league where they will hopefully pick up a few wins.