Monday 20th Jan 2025
Congratulations to the basketball team who played their first ever match for the Clifton Centre against Chorlton PRU.
The Clifton Centre started off strong by dominating possession of the ball and were unlucky not to go in front in the first quarter. The Point Guard passing into the Clifton Power Forward who hit the rim of the basket, narrowly missing.
More Clifton attackers were to follow and Chorlton were having to master the art of man to man defending. The game was end to end and against the run of play Chorlton scored in a fast break attack to put them 2-0 up.
This only seemed to motivate the Clifton team who then responded with some fine shooting from distance with a 3 pointer being scored. This put Clifton into a 3-2 lead at the end of the first quarter.
The second and third quarter were very even with both teams coming close to scoring. However, Chorlton produced some magic of their own to put themselves in the lead going into the final quarter. Clifton rallied in the final quarter and scored again but unfortunately it was to no avail with Chorlton eventually running out 6-4 winners.
All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the experience and learnt a great deal from the game.