Basketball team reaches League semi-final

Congratulations to the Sixth Form basketball team for reaching the semi-final of the Oxfordshire U19 Schools Basketball League — an impressive achievement. Their next match, against Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, will be later this term.

Below are match reports from the team's two most recent league games, written by the basketball team captain, Rhys Tong-Jones.

d’Overbroeck’s vs Bicester (Home)
d’Overbroeck’s 41
Bicester 24

In the first game following their defeat to Henry Box, and dealing with new positions for a number of key players, d’Overbroeck’s managed to pull off its 5th victory of the season to lift the team into a tie for second place in the league. Now only needing to only beat Woodgreen to guarantee a place in the Oxfordshire U19 league playoffs, the team will need to stay focused over the half-term break in order to be the first d’Overbroeck’s side to make the play-off’s.


d’Overbroeck’s vs Woodgreen (Away)
Woodgreen 25
d’Overbroeck’s 42

With a place in the semi final to play for, d’Overbroeck’s turned in its best performance of the season so far. Although only leading by only 4 points at the end of the first quarter, d’Overbroeck’s slowly but surely continued to put points on the board to edge further in front.

That was up until halfway through the fourth quarter, at which point the game became a blowout.

With foul trouble hampering Woodgreen, they couldn't be as aggressive as they wanted. d’Overbroeck’s took advantage, displaying some excellent offensive play and converting their chances in style to comfortably win the match.

The first half was all about d’Overbroeck’s excellent defensive work, optimised by the newly starting centre Peace Aphichutniran. Substitutes Roman Sokolov and Matthew Anderson continued this good form and added some fancy scoring of their own.

An outstanding performance from a maturing team, lead expertly by their point guard Justin Aphichutniran. League statistics so far: 6 Wins, 1 Defeat. Next stop: Playoffs.

Man of the Match: Rhys Tong-Jones