Thursday night (5th September) brought with it the first of what is hopefully many Grand Final appearances for MUBC. While the Women’s A grade team missed out on the GF in a thrilling 1pt loss, the Women’s AR team (formally Sugar Station) playing in the VBHBA competition finished minor premiers and sailed through to the GF against the second placed team, the Rubies.
Both teams were wearing green, however our one and only supporter, the incomparable Adriano Letti, chose to don the shade of green worn by the opposition. Despite this small setback in support, the girls got off to a good start, holding much of the possession in the first half. Big Sof started off the scoring with a lovely turnaround jump shot in the paint and great defence from Tannie-G, Amanda and Big Sof on the Rubies big centre pretty much stifled the opposition’s best player. Jenna and Jacquie both had some great fast break scores, and a couple of easy misses that were mopped up by Amanda’s great rebounding. Point guard Sam put her life on the line, taking a huge charge from the Rubies centre and generally kept the team on track. Things got a little feisty in the second half, with some questionable calls that were argued against vehemently by both teams. Anj contributed to the scoreboard with a few made free throws and managed to make yet another enemy in an opposition team by calling the biggest girl on the court a ‘bully’ and throwing some of her patented death glares her way. While the Rubies enjoyed a slight resurgence in the second half, Uni held off for a 35-24 victory. Tannie-G gave a lovely victory speech, including a number of tried and true clichés and for the first time, the premiership medals had a useful purpose, being used as a bribe to obtain a table for the team at the pub for victory drinks.
Team members: Sam Brammall, Amanda Douglass-Parker, Anjali Goundar, Tania Gregory, Jacquie Nguyen, Jenna Smyth and Sofia Soltys.
Good luck to all MUBC teams that have made finals in other winter competitions!!
