Storming into the final!

Basketball U19 County Cup Semi-Final

A fantastic team display by d’Overbroeck’s saw them beat Bartholomew 52-40 in a well contested semi-final play-off. Excellent team defence saw d’Overbroeck’s edge a close, but low scoring first period 10-6. In the second period d’Overbroeck’s started to find their range with some superb shooting and driving from the outstanding Fong Wu. This was aided by a much improved offensive performance by Duncan Churcher who converted several rebounds, whilst the introduction of Tianhan Tan lead to some important points from open play and the free throw line. At half time the score was 20-10 to d’Overbroeck’s.

In the second half Bartholomew came out hard playing a full court press, putting the defence under a lot of pressure. Thankfully Vlad Baranchikov and Marko Stupar were coming up with the big defensive rebounds and in an even quarter the lead was kept to 10 points. Bartholomew were desperate for possession in the last quarter and that led to them giving away lots of fouls. Eventually d’Overbroeck’s were able to seal the game from the free throw line and never looked like losing their lead.



The team consisted of players form all three parts of the college, including a debut for year 10 student Kwame Sellick.

Congratulations to the team on making our first final: Marko Stupar (Captain), Duncan Churcher, Juan Churcher, Toby Sun, Tom New, Vladimir Baranchikov, Fon Wu, Tianhan Tan, Edison Fai and Kwame Sellick.

Player of the match: Fong Wu, who scored 32 of our points.

Judo (student and staff success)

Two members of d'Overbroeck's College have taken part in the annual Oxford & Cambridge Universities, Judo Varsity match.The two Universities have a non-student event in which Dmitry Zharkov and Henry Winney competed for the Oxford Team. They didn't let the college down, between them winning three fights with no losses.

Dmitry was first up, showing some dogged determination to defeat his much older opponent in a tough contest by throwing him over his shoulder for the maximum score. After such a strong performance Dmitry was invited to compete in an exhibition fight, against the ex-President of Cambridge University Judo. Dmitry didn't disappoint. With speed and stunning technique he threw his opponent twice, the first a large lift and the second sweeping his opponent's feet away to secure his second win. This was fantastic from Dmitry, competing against men several years older than himself.

Henry was pitted against an experienced black belt, more than 10kilos bigger than himself. Undaunted, he set about breaking down his opponent over the first two minutes of the fight and was able to nimbly avoid the attacks that were thrown his way using spectacular aerial spins. He was forthright in attack and dogged in defence, looking dangerous whenever the fight went into the groundwork stages. After just two-thirds of the allotted time Henry pinned his opponent to the floor in a vice-like hold. Henry's opponent was so firmly tied by the strong and technical pin that he couldn't even struggle and the fight was awarded to Henry.