{"id":5783,"date":"2019-06-07T20:16:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.draftcentral.com.au\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2019-06-07T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:18:35","slug":"victorias-best-to-try-their-hand-at-the-national-junior-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/victorias-best-to-try-their-hand-at-the-national-junior-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria to host the National Junior Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA will will play host to the nation&#8217;s elite junior invitational tournament, with the best teams from around the country set to play off in the National Junior Classic across the Queen&#8217;s Birthday long weekend. Victorian teams make up a large number of the 128 overall sides to have qualified for the invitation-only event, with a cap of 16 teams competing in age groups ranging from Under 12 to Under 18 in girls and boys divisions. <\/p>\n<p>Dandenong and Nunawading will each have seven teams competing in the Classic, with Bulleen the next most represented with six, while Kilsyth and Melbourne have five, and Hawthorn and Keilor will send four each on the back of impressive qualifying campaigns. Three sides from Bendigo and Geelong, as well as one each from Ballarat, Pakenham, Sale, and Southern Peninsula also earned their place through Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL) qualification, with three sides from the Basketball Victoria Country (BVC) Junior Championships &#8211; from Ballarat, Warrnambool, and Maffra &#8211; also making the cut. <\/p>\n<p>VJBL General Manager John Hilton said it is &#8220;a great thrill&#8221; to have the best teams from around the state ready to compete in the Classic, noting the interstate sides would be just as keen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the MUVJBL and Country teams across Victoria, the Classic is the perfect opportunity to highlight their abilities in one of Australia\u2019s most elite junior tournaments,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe interstate sides are just as keen to attend the Classic \u2013 as they are set to take on Australia\u2019s best in their age group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MUVJBL would like to wish all 128 competing teams the best of luck heading to the Classic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teams from South Australia (29) New South Wales (17), the ACT (seven), and New Zealand (two) will also compete, with the journey to crown Australia&#8217;s best junior teams set to commence on Saturday, June 8. <\/p>\n<p>Full fixtures can be <a href=\"http:\/\/websites.sportstg.com\/assoc_page.cgi?c=1-5008-0-0-0&#038;a=COMPS\">found here<\/a>, and entry is free for all spectators.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of teams can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 12 BOYS<\/strong><br \/>\nBallarat<br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nCasey<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nEltham<br \/>\nKilsyth<br \/>\nMcKinnon<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNorwood<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSandringham<br \/>\nSouth Adelaide<br \/>\nSouthern Tigers<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nSydney Comets<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 12 GIRLS<\/strong><br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nCasey<br \/>\nForestville<br \/>\nFrankston<br \/>\nHawthorn<br \/>\nKilsyth<br \/>\nManly<br \/>\nMelbourne<br \/>\nNorth Adelaide<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNorwood<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSandringham<br \/>\nSydney Comets<br \/>\nWarrnambool<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 14 BOYS<\/strong><br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nCasey<br \/>\nCentral Districts<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nGeelong<br \/>\nHawthorn<br \/>\nHills Hornets<br \/>\nKilsyth<br \/>\nMcKinnon<br \/>\nMelbourne<br \/>\nNew Zealand<br \/>\nNorth Adelaide<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNorwood<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nPenrith<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 14 GIRLS<\/strong><br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nEltham<br \/>\nForestville<br \/>\nFrankston<br \/>\nHawthorn<br \/>\nKeilor<br \/>\nKilsyth<br \/>\nMelbourne<br \/>\nNew Zealand<br \/>\nNorth Adelaide<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSale<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nWest Adelaide<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 16 BOYS<\/strong><br \/>\nBendigo<br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nCentral Districts<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nEltham<br \/>\nGeelong<br \/>\nHills Hornets<br \/>\nKeilor<br \/>\nKnox<br \/>\nMaffra<br \/>\nNorth Adelaide<br \/>\nNorwood<br \/>\nPakenham<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nSydney Comets<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 16 GIRLS<\/strong><br \/>\nBallarat<br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nDiamond Valley<br \/>\nEastern Mavericks<br \/>\nForestville<br \/>\nKeilor<br \/>\nManly<br \/>\nMelbourne<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSandringham<br \/>\nSouthern Tigers<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nSydney Comets<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 18 BOYS<\/strong><br \/>\nBendigo<br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nCanberra<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nDiamond Valley<br \/>\nForestville<br \/>\nHills Hornets<br \/>\nKeilor<br \/>\nKilsyth<br \/>\nMelbourne<br \/>\nNorth Adelaide<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nSydney Comets<br \/>\nWerribee<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDER 18 GIRLS<\/strong><br \/>\nAltona<br \/>\nBendigo<br \/>\nBulleen<br \/>\nDandenong<br \/>\nDiamond Valley<br \/>\nForestville<br \/>\nGeelong<br \/>\nHawthorn<br \/>\nKnox<br \/>\nManly<br \/>\nNorths Bears<br \/>\nNunawading<br \/>\nSouth Adelaide<br \/>\nSouthern Peninsula<br \/>\nSturt Sabres<br \/>\nWest Adelaide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA will will play host to the nation&#8217;s elite junior invitational tournament, with the best teams from around the country set to play off in the National Junior Classic across the Queen&#8217;s Birthday long weekend. Victorian teams make up a large number of the 128 overall sides to have qualified for the invitation-only event, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,1],"tags":[379,1645,142],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-championships","category-uncategorized","tag-muvjbl","tag-national-junior-classic","tag-vjbl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}