Match highlights: BUCS competition 2012-13 Week 12

With a host of outdoor sports cancelled this weeks report focuses on the indoor Sports played at Ethos.

As most the South East of England was still frozen over for the last couple of weeks a lot of fixtures were called off so we are straight onto week 12 officially, a week dominated by basketball in Ethos.

First up was Imperial College Men’s 2nds basketball against Kingston University. The confident South Londoners made a positive start cruising to a lead of over 12 points going into half time. After a passionate half time team talk Imperial came out in the 3^rd quarter with a switched on attitude working hard to shut the door defensively and starting to take more of their chances IC closed the gap to 4 points at 44-48. However this only motivated Kingston to kick on and step it up in the 4^th quarter with some clever and clinical interplay they closed the game out 69-56. Imperial showed good fight in the second half and they will look to bring this into their next few matches.

The next match up was Imperial Medics men’s V St.Marys. Medics looked focussed from the very start and cruised through the first quarter against a nervous looking St.marys. Even though their lead was over 15 points the Medics team was reminded by captain Kaveesh Dissanayake that their focus must be maintained. The team duly obliged keeping the score board ticking over, building a healthy lead into half time. In a strong position the Medics were able to use the second half to run and prefect some of their plays. This allowed St.marys to close the gap slightly but Medics saw the game out comfortably in the end 58-44. 

Just next door to the basketball the clinking of Fencing swords could be heard from 5^th court where Imperial Men’s 3^rd’s were taking on London rivals UCL 2^nd. Bothe teams were quite evenly matched but Imperial proved too strong in the end taking the match 133-128.

On the squash courts downstairs there were mixed fortunes for Imperial. Men’s 2nds were convincingly beat 4-1 by their UCl counter-parts whereas Imperial Ladies comfortably beat Portsmouth 1s 4-0.

We look forward to the freezing weather moving on and a return to a full fixtures list indoors and outdoors in week 13.

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