Melville Intermediate - AIMS 2012 Games Summary

Melville Intermediate 2012 NZAIMS Games results started on Monday 10th September 2012. The Melville Intermediate Schools Girls Basketball Teams first game was against The Knox School from Melbourne.  It was an incredibly close game, going down to the last thirty seconds, the Knox however emerged victorious winning 32-34.  Melville then had to pick them up for an afternoon game against Te Kura o Moana Tauranga.  Melville scored their first win of the competition 41-10.  Knowing that the quarter finals could be reached with two wins on Tuesday the Melville team were desperate for good performances against Ross Intermediate from New Plymouth and Bethlehem College.  Ross were defeated in the morning 34-9 and Bethlehem College were beaten 55-6.

This left Melville Intermediate as runners up in pool b, facing a play off game against one of the tournament hosts, the unbeaten Tauranga Intermediate School.  In a quarter final that was tied 14-14 at half time Melville proved to strong for Tauranga, knocking them out for the second consecutive year in the quater finals this time 30-23.

Melville had then the sternest of challenges in the Semi-Finals, Kaitoa Middle School from Rotorua.   We'd played Kaitoa in their Rotorua Tournament in June, and lost by a point, however Kaitoa were dominating this years AIMS tournament winning their games by huge margins.  It wasn't meant to be for Melville, Kaitoa, the eventual NZAIMS Champions, running away with the game 30-47. 

That left Melville with a final game for 2012 for third and fourth place, against The Knox School from Melbourne.  Both teams were desperate for the medals that came with third place, and while there was only six points in the game at half time, Melville Intermediate were able to win convincingly 38-22 making them third for 2012.  Kobe Hawea as a result of her outstanding play throughout the tournament was named in the tournament team, a feat that she repeated from 2011.

Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Basketball 2012

Today Melville Intermediate competed in the Waikato Inter Intermediate Basketball Competition for 2012 held at the Te Awamutu Events Centre.  The Melville Boys found the going a little tough, losing to Te Awamutu Intermediate first up 15-24, before drawing with Cambridge 8-8.  They then lost to Tokoroa Intermediate 2-12 before finishing up against semi-finalists Peachgrove Intermediate School and beating them 14-10.   The Boys finished 5th overall.

The Girls were unbeaten for the tournament.  They defeated Cambridge Middle School in the first game 12-6, before defeating defending champions Peachgrove Intermediate School 14-12.  They then took on Te Awamutu Intermediate and defeated them 8-4.  This put Melville into the Semi-Final against Berkley Middle School.  Melville defeated them 18-2 to book a place in the final against Matamata Intermediate.  Matamata went into the final with some amazing stats- they had not conceded a point in any game, and the final was a closely fought affair.  It was 8-4 to Melville at half time and in the second half Melville were able to claim the slenderest of wins 14-12.  This makes Melville the 2012 Waikato Champions and is a fantastic build up to the NZAIMS Tournament which starts this Sunday!
This Footage above, filmed by Levi from Room Five is of the Girls competing against Berkley School in the Semi-Final.

Melville Intermediate - NZAIMS Games 2012

On Tuesday Melville Intermediate Girls Basketball team continued their build up to the 2012 NZAIMS games with a game against Toku Mapihi Maurea KKM on Tuesday night at the YMCA on Pembrooke Street.   The Melville Intermediate team has had to play against club teams and Boys teams, but its great preparation for the NZAIMS, which is the national finals coming up in early September.  Against Toku Mapihi Melville took a 12-6 lead in the first quarter, and then dominated the second to lead 28-8 at half time.  The final score ended up being 35-16 to Melville.  Tia topped scored for the second time in three games.

Melville Intermediate - Basketball Vs. Fairfield Int.

On Tuesday our Girls Basketball team travelled to Fairfield Intermediate School in Hamilton for our NZAIMS Tournament team to play against the Fairfield Intermediate Boys team. The NZAIMS tournament is just thirty days away and is taking place in Tauranga. This year there are over 160 schools and 5800 students competing in the different sports. Melville Intermediate are contesting the Gymsport Hip Hop and Girls Basketball competitions.  Our girls teams in the past three years have finished 1st (2009), 4th (2010) and 3rd (2011) in New Zealand.  The current team has been playing together for nearly a year and a half, although on Tuesdays when we have the Waikato Basketball competition we have some players in their club teams.   The Girls have been looking for warm up games prior to the competition and were very excited to travel to Fairfield Intermediate.  Although they played a Boys team that had rep players in it, the Melville Intermediate Girls led by eight points at half time and we able to stretch that lead further in the second half and defeated Fairfield 44-31.  Tia from Room Eighteen top scored 16 points in the game.  Sam from Room Five was present and filmed some high lights.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Basketball Update

Today on Tuesday 12th June Melville Intermediate played against the 'Flyers Nets' Basketball club in their Tuesday night competition game.  Our Girls were looking to record their fifth straight win on Tuesdays before next week's semi-finals.  After three close quarters where Melville was leading by only four points in the last quarter the girls put the afterburners on and won 32-17.   The game was a build up for this Friday, the Melville Intermediate team are travelling to Rotorua to compete in the Kaitoa Middle School Invitational Basketball Tournament at the Rotorua Sports Dome.  We have games scheduled throughout the day and will have the results of this tournament posted online on the weekend.