Indoor Basketball

The competition games are being held at Newtown Stadium and will be highlighted by the selection of NZU team to play Hutt Valley (Friday, 16 August) and Wellington (Saturday, 17 August).

Canterbury and Otago wil field very strong teams and should fight out the top positions. (Otago have four provincial reps in C. Morris, (NZU rep), B. Keith, R. Stewart, and A. Robinson.

Current Canterbury reps are J. Uttley, J. Culliford, P. Stigley and A. Taylor, Culliford was in the New Zealand Under-20 side that went to Australia in 1967.

The Victoria teams is: J. Somsai, K. Davies, M. Myers, R. Colello, J. Hall, R. Agnew, N. Parris, G. Rapson, P. Green.

The men's team has had the benefit of coaching from Elder Ashton for the past month.

Women

Otago will be the strongest side in the sport.

However, Canterbury, with three provincial reps in G. Hannan, D. Brougnton and A. Lees should provide some tough competition.

Victoria is not as strong as in past years and its hopes For a reasonable showing will rest on the performances of the two Wellington B reps, Robyn Stephens and Michelle Schoenberger.

The Vic team is: Anne Saunders, Eva Bent, Michelle Schoenberger, Vicky Tilley, Robyn Stephens, Sandy Flett, Rowan Anderson, Rosalind Digby, Coach M. Myers.

An NZU team will meet Wellington on the Wednesday night at Newtown Stadium.

Venue: Newtown Stadium.