Category: Essington

Essington Middle School Debating Team Shines! 0

Essington Middle School Debating Team Shines!

Our young middle years debating team consisting of Rose, Joe and Kaylee were presented with an enormous finals challenge – presenting their debate in no less than the main chamber of Parliament House. We...

Basketball – U16 Essington Boys and Girls 17 April victories 0

Basketball – U16 Essington Boys and Girls 17 April victories

Both the boys and girls under 16 teams played out a close game against their opposition and walked away winners. Close games are great, but for senior citizens it really gets the heart rate...

Good matches by Essington U16 boys and girls Friday night – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons 0

Good matches by Essington U16 boys and girls Friday night – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons

The boy’s game was against Palmerston Pumas and it was a tight game right up until the end. I have been really pleased with the sportsman like behaviour between the teams of late and...

Essington do very well in the (Basketball NT) BNT Challenge – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons 0

Essington do very well in the (Basketball NT) BNT Challenge – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons

During the Easter break in Darwin there was a basketball competition called the basketball Northern Territory challenge. The competition went from Friday to Sunday, 5 April 2015. The Essington School had a number of...

Essington U16 Boys – Another victory – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons 0

Essington U16 Boys – Another victory – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons

Played against the Palmerston Predators and in a low scoring match took out the points. Good to see Yanni back and Erik joined us a little later after playing a footy match where he...

Basketball season starts in earnest – with two wins! – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons 0

Basketball season starts in earnest – with two wins! – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons

After a soul searching set of matches during the practise season where the boys and girls under 16 teams were not really getting a chance to develop their plays or teamwork, it was decided...

Essington basketball games week of 9 Feb 2015 – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons 0

Essington basketball games week of 9 Feb 2015 – DBA Basketball Essington Cannons

Power blackouts and some tough games proved we have a way to go. Injurie to Yani, Joe and Jacana along with a trip that saw two players heading in one direction – but not...

DBA Basketball Essington Cannons – Under 16 boys and girls basketball game 0

DBA Basketball Essington Cannons – Under 16 boys and girls basketball game

The boys and girls played their first U16 matches for 2015. It was the first hit out for both teams and although they didn’t win they did acquit themselves well. Here are the match...

Essington Cannons – first games of the 2015 DBA Basketball Season 0

Essington Cannons – first games of the 2015 DBA Basketball Season

First game for the Div 1 U18 boys Essington vs Eagles. Great start for 2015 and the boys acquitted themselves well. https://youtu.be/cERfx0D3C3A?list=PLve6qt7XBGasTSfsbj3AXRSrhDKIfhOVB Here are the full videos for the match held Monday night 7pm...

Basketball – preparing our kids for their future (whatever that might be) 0

Basketball – preparing our kids for their future (whatever that might be)

I actually wrote this before our teams had won a gameā€¦ and wanted to share some words of wisdom passed to me by the father of the most valuable player from the best team...