Tournament

Our boys of 95 enjoyed a great tournament where many well known teams took part. Unfortunately the team was not at its best as several players had missed quite a few training sessions due to injuries and sickness and added to this Enrique Sanchez twisted his ankle in the first match (Gran Canaria) and Sebas González hurt his in the second (FC Barcelona). Consequently we were handicapped from the outset and did not perform as well as we should have. Our lads were enthusiastic but technique was lacking in attack on some occasions and in defence on others.

Outstanding play from our boys infantile team in the XVIth ’ Internacional Ciudad de Santa Cruz’ (Tenerife) Tournament which took place from the 20th to the 23rd December 2009.

Results:
CANTERBURY IDECNET – GRAN CANARIA (48-39)
CANTERBURY IDECNET – CAJASIETE SANTA CRUZ (57-62)
SAN ISIDRO – CANTERBURY IDECNET (43-70)
Semifinal:CANTERBURY IDECNET – NÁUTICO TENERIFE (69-47)
Final:CANTERBURY IDECNET – HEIDELBERG (67-58)

The 2009-2010, basketball season has begun with an interesting opening Tournament which has served as a great introduction to the larger size court and a size 6 basketball for all the lads concerned: it’s all going to be a very different from last season!

Great opening tournament to the 2009-2010 session which has given our boys' Minibasket team a taste off what there is to come...

IV TORNEO DE MINIBASKET “McDONALD’S” Villa de Candelaria

El equipo Minibasket de Canterbury estará en Tenerife los días 9, 10 y 11 de octubre para participar en el IV TORNEO DE MINIBASKET “McDONALD’S” Villa de Candelaria.
Los partidos se celebrarán...

Our heartiest congratulations to our girls for their outstanding performance as they won every match they played in the tournament. Our warmest thanks to The Colegio Nuryana for their excellent organisation as always, and especially to Luis Afonso, chief organiser of the Nyuyana basketball Club for making the whole occasion work so well. A fantastic weekend for our ‘minibasket’ and ‘infantil’ teams from both a sporting and social point of view. Our ‘preinfantil’ girls team took part in the Infantil Tournament and this was an excellent experience for them.
Day 1
Minibasket: Canterbury-Pureza Santa Cruz (67-14)
Infantil: Canterbury-La Salle Santa Cruz (68-12)
Day 2
Minibasket: Canterbury-Luther King (71-12)
Infantil: Canterbury-Luther King (70-29)
Day 3
Minibasket: Canterbury-Nuryana (34-20)
Infantil: Canterbury-Nuryana (53-34)

This weekend our ‘infantil’ (S1) and ‘minibasket’ (P6) girls’ teams will be taking part in the 2nd “COLEGIO NURYANA” basketball tournament.
The matches will be played in the installations of the ‘ Colegio Nuryana’ in La Laguna (Tenerife).
For further details please refer to : 20-11-2008 2nd Girls ‘Infantil’ and ‘Minibasket’ tournament “COLEGIO NURYANA”.

• Final: CANTERBURY – SANTA CRUZ (56-59)
The Final was played at 3.30 in the afternoon. Both teams were neck and neck throughout the whole match. First one then the other was ahead on the scoreboard until at the end of the first quarter the LIONS were leading by 5 points. It was noticeable at times that this was the final match in a long tournament and the defence play was not as good as in the earlier matches. Canterbury attacks also lost some drive and energy, the game became erratic and too many easy shots were missed. The second half carried en in much the same fashion until CANTERBURY were 10 points ahead at the end of the 3rd quarter. SANTA CRUZ en the other hand benefitted from their superior physical strength, kept up strong counter attacks and had more success with the rebounds. This, added to the easy shots that CANTERBURY missed soon meant that their opponents crept up little by little until they finally got ahead. In the last minute and a half, CANTERBURY lost three attacks with shots under the net and lost the game 56-59
We should learn from this defeat which left us disappointed, but at the same time we can be satisfied with the general high level of the CANTERBURY team throughout the whole tournament.
We should mention that our Canterbury Lion Eduardo Perez was nominated the best individual player in the Tournament.

Sunday 5th October : CANTERBURY – VIRGEN DEL MAR (semi-final) y CANTERBURY – NURYANA (3º - 4º puesto)
La sem- final at 09.00 o’clock in the morning was our worst match and the team suddenly went to pieces. It was a question of wanting and not being able to from the beginning to the end. We were finally beaten by 26 points in a match which was deemed to be a game against a similar rival. This meant a play off for the 3rd or 4th position.
Both times were fairly equal at the beginning and the scoreboard showed first one then the other ahead, The fact that all the players had played five matches in three days began to show and the tiredness crept in at odd moments. However the Lions played a good second half with some great moves and the final score was Canterbury – Nuryana (61-48)
The tournament was won by Santo Domingo in a tough match between the two finalists: Santo Domingo - Virgen del Mar (55-47)

(Pabellón Miguel Ángel Díaz Molina – Puerto de la Cruz)
Minibasket masculino: 10, 11 y 12 de octubre.

Los días 10,11 y 12 de octubre se celebra el III TORNEO DE MINIBASKET “PUERTO DE LA CRUZ”, en el cual participa nuestro equipo Minibasket masculino. Adjuntamos el calendario del torneo. Suerte a todos.

08-10-2008 III Torneo Baloncesto Puerto de la Cruz

On Sunday 2nd March, the final of the fourth ‘San Bartolome Destino Cultural Occidental Allegro Oasis’
Tournament took place. Please click ( nota de prensa ) for the press report with the results. The girls were outstanding and finished champions after an excellent final match against the UNI TENERIFE. The boys came third although they played all their games very well and it was only an unfortunate second quarter against Nuryana which determined their final position. Congratulations to all our players for this great result: the outsome of all the hard work they have put into their training this season.

Nuestros equipos masculino y femenino de la categoría minibasket participaran en la cuarta edición del TORNEO MINIBASKET SAN BARTOLOME DESTINO CULTURAL OCCIDENTAL ALLEGRO OASIS ( descárgate el pdf con toda la información ), a disputar en la vecina isla de Lanzarote, entre el 29 de Febrero y el 02 de Marzo de 2008. Desde aquí deseamos felicitar al Club Baloncesto Grubati , por la consolidación de su torneo, así como por la excelente organización. Suerte a todos.

Our boys 'minibasket' and 'preinfantil' teams have participated in the 1 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT “VILLA DE CANDELARIA” (Las Caletillas – Tenerife) and obtained first and third place respectively.

Our girls’ teams also took part in the el I ‘MINI-BASKET’ and ‘PRE-INFANTIL’ ‘NURYANA 2007’ and came first in both competitions.
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Congratulations to you all!

1º Torneo Santa Cruz “Preminibasket y Benjamín”

1. San Isidro – Canterbury. Brillante Triunfo del Canterbury preminibasket masculino (P5).
Nuestros chicos han realizado un muy buen Torneo en juego y en resultados acabando invictos.