The Melbourne United Victorian Junior Basketball League (MUVJBL) Under-16 Boys Championship Division kicked off the semi-finals last week with the Dandenong Rangers besting the Keilor Thunder, and Waverley Falcons getting up over Geelong Falcons. Both games were separated by a combined 11 points in tight contests all-round.<\/p>\n
Keilor Thunder 51 defeated by Dandenong Rangers 56<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite finishing higher on the table, the Thunder went out of the finals in straight sets. They did well to close the margin to two points (41-43) with an 18-9 third term, but conceded the fourth 10-13 to lose the game by five points. Beau Tranter <\/strong>led with 18 points for the Rangers, moving to tenth for points per game (PPG) in his eleventh outing (14.5). Dennis Ameti <\/strong>trailed Tranter with nine points, while Jackson Djatschenko <\/strong>led the game with 25 for Keilor. Brodie McWhinney <\/strong>also scored 10 points in the loss – finishing his season in nineteenth for PPG (10.9) below Cooper Colson <\/strong>in twelfth (12.8).<\/p>\n Waverley Falcons 71 defeated Geelong Supercats 65<\/strong><\/p>\n The Waverley Falcons pulled off a win over Geelong Supercats (71-65) in the second semi-final. The Supercats were competitive throughout, trailing 36-33 into the main break despite losing the first two terms. They managed to draw in the third (15-15) but could not effectively mount their comeback with a 20-17 term closing out their season. The Falcons have a lot to like moving into the preliminaries, with three players recording double digits. Nemuel Soliven <\/strong>led the way with 17 points, followed by Matt Jefferson <\/strong>(14) and David Amum <\/strong>(12). Amum moves to sixth for PPG (15.5), with Jefferson (11.9), Tesloch Thong <\/strong>(11.5) and Soliven (10.7) rounding out the top 20. For Geelong, Jet Kneebone <\/strong>had an impressive end with 23 points, followed next by Patrick Johnstone <\/strong>on 10.<\/p>\n The Championship Division kick off the Preliminary Finals next week with the Eltham Wildcats facing the Dandenong Rangers, and the Bulleen Boomers going head to head with the Waverley Falcons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Melbourne United Victorian Junior Basketball League (MUVJBL) Under-16 Boys Championship Division kicked off the semi-finals last week with the Dandenong Rangers besting the Keilor Thunder, and Waverley Falcons getting up over Geelong Falcons. Both games were separated by a combined 11 points in tight contests all-round. Keilor Thunder 51 defeated by Dandenong Rangers 56 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2524,"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":[17,12],"tags":[1275,704,705,995,1583,1240,817,1145,1146,1936,1245],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u16-boys","category-vjbl-boys","tag-beau-tranter","tag-brodie-mcwhinney","tag-cooper-colson","tag-david-amum","tag-dennis-ameti","tag-jackson-djatschenko","tag-jet-kneebone","tag-matt-jefferson","tag-nemuel-soliven","tag-patrick-jonstone","tag-tesloch-thong"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}