REPRESENTATIVES from Basketball Victoria visited Stawell to showcase the Stawell Women's Day Basketball Association.
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Leah Bradford, Scott Davis and Steve Chalmers attend a Women's Day Basketball session on Monday September 16.
They interviewed and videoed a number of different people, the kids, the games and a skills session run by Stawell Wildcats chairperson Matt Bourke.
A number of past players and committee attend the event and welcomed new players who joined in the skills event.
Residents from Pinnacle attended as spectators, an activity they have been participating in for more than two years.
Gifts and prizes was awarded to the club - thanking them for the contribution to the sport.
It was a high scoring basketball for the last week before the mid-season break.
Game one was between Blue and Green.
Green got the early lead through Sharna Fox and found themselves up by 11 at half time.
Blue scarmbled their way back into the game, shutting down Fox and Erin Freeland finding ways to score.
Despite a respectable 22-14 half, Blue couldn't un-do the damage done and went down by three, 33-36.
The first half of game two was also a one sided affair between Red and Gold.
Gold were in front 29-8 at half time but Red didn't go down with out a fight.
The margin was 17 at full time.
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