Basketball

Team BTC 90 – 63 Plymouth

BTC welcomed Plymouth City Patriots Academy (PCP) and hoped to bounce back from a close defeat to Truro 3 before half term.

The game started with both teams trying to find their rhythm on offense and they game was tied 9-9 halfway through the 1st quarter. The introduction of G. Das Neves, M. Ajayi and Mc. Joseph propelled BTC to finish the quarter strong with a 23-18 lead.

PCP’s B. Hummerstone was doing his best to keep his team in the game with 12 of PCP’s 17 points in the 2nd quarter. This wasn’t enough to stop BTC going in at HT with a 47-35 lead with impressive shooting from A. King and clinical finishing in the paint from G. Das Neves.

F.Rose was tasked with stopping PCP’s B. Hummerstone and did a great job with the latter only able to 5 points, whilst Rose was able to score 4 points of his own. The strong defense enabled BTC to take the game further away from PCP by extending the lead to 69-48.

BTC were full of confidence and moving the ball around with purpose and started the 4th quarter with a 17-4 run to increase the lead to 34 points. A. Taylor was picking apart the PCP defence with multiple assists. PCP finished the game with a flurry of baskets, but the result finished 90-63 in BTC’s favour.

This was a fantastic team performance by Team BTC who put in their best performance of the season, certainly from an offensive perspective with 4 players reaching double figures for points.

MVP was Alfie King with 28 points, but he was ably assisted by; Genildo Das Neves (20), Alex Taylor (16) and Mike Ajayi (14).

Netball 2s

Team BTC 16 – 21 Weston

Netball 2s played extremely well against Weston on Wednesday, the team were focused and had great communication all throughout, and finished the second quarter 11-7 to BTC.

The team kept positive and showed a good variety of movement down the court. The girls kept pushing through and heads were still high. Defensive and attacking players worked fantastically to keep the ball. Despite the loss by just 3 the team were very composed and supported each other very well. Finishing the game 20-17 to Weston.

POM – Tahlia Andrews
OPOM – Lex Cable

Men’s 1 Football

Team BTC 3 – 4 Truro

Slow start for Men’s 1 in the CAT1 Aoc League welcoming Truro where they went 2 up in the early stages of the game. Goals from #skipper Pfupa and Freddie Haden to put the side back level 2-2. Truro then pull away right after kick off making it 3-2 and then Haden slots one in near post making it 3-3 going into second half. After an entertaining first half, Truro get away on the counter attack and win a penalty that they converted to make it 4-3 and go onto win the game.

Goal scorers:
Brad Pfupa
Freddie Haden x 2

Motm Freddie Haden for his consistent threat and contributions in attack.

Team:

Fran Souza, Ryan Hibbert, Brad Pfupa, Eddie Townsend, Wess Jenkins, Will Singleton Voss, Freddie Haden, Preston Hopwood, Theo Worth, Blake Kearley , Riley Willis, Tatenda Gumbo, Oscar Dabrowski, Billy Johnson, Acey Mead, Tom Symons

To find out more about Team BTC, visit the Sport at College and Student Life pages.  If you love playing sport and are in year 10 or 11, you might like to join one of our free Sport Development Days.