Medway Park Crusaders used their much improved defence to surprise fifth place Edmonton at home in Medway on Saturday. The team has shown great improvement on the defensive end, as witnessed by Crusaders holding the Storm to only 41 points over the first three quarters.

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The Canterbury High School Boys Under 19 basketball team have reached the semi-final stages of the British Colleges Elite National Cup.  They reached the semi-finals with a comprehensive 69-43 victory away to Truro College in Cornwall. Having defeated Brighton and Hove in the previous round, Canterbury were drawn away to Truro for the quarterfinals. Read the rest of this entry »

Next week Crusaders are playing Durham in away. Crusaders hoped to upset pre-season league favourites Durham Wildcats in their Division 2 opener but had to concede a narrow seven point defeat, 81-74, in a game that was decided in the last minute.

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New Medway Park Crusaders coach James Vear saw his team take their second win in three games Saturday as they took care of the visiting Team Northumbria 75-61 in convincing fashion behind Brad Smith’s 29 points and 13 rebounds.

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Men

The men have endured a difficult season to date.  After starting the season full of optimism and aiming for promotion, they have fallen far short of expectations.  After losing their first 6 league games, Mads Olesen decided to step down as head coach, ending a two and year tenure.  James Vear was given the head coaching position and picked up a win in his first game defeating fellow strugglers, Plymouth Marjon.  A loss to Brixton in the final game before Christmas left the men 1-7 and in 9th place - just out of the relegation spots at the break.

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The two Medway Park Crusaders games against Brixton that were supposed to be played at Medway Park/Black Lion on Saturday 19th of December have been moved to Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury and have been moved forward one hour.

It’s the ongoing building works Medway Park that roughly have left the sports hall the same temperature as outside, and the forecast temperature for Saturday is minus 4 Celsius.

The Under 18 game will start at 3.30pm while the men will start at 6pm.

Admission will be free, but there will be very limited space for spectators.