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Tonight sees us in competition with the Carolina Titans, who are a church run group who run their own sports teams and competitions but are not affiliated with a school district. As an Independent school they can compete in any competition and can draw students from a variety of schools across the Anderson, South Carolina area. Should be an interesting contest for us so we'll see how we go. Stay tuned for results.

Prior to tip-off today we have a short ride to Prime Outlets in Gaffney, South Carolina. They are located at Exit 90 on the I-85!! In Aussie speak they're up the road a bit!!! It's bargain city, shop till you drop time as the kids and staff get to check out the 70 outlet stores featuring nike, adidas, ralph lauren, gap, tommy hilfiger, timbaland etc. Hopefully the team's collective mindset won't get too lost in the consumer mayhem and we're ready to play. More news to come...







Tonight's game saw us play Carolina Titans, who are an independent highschool sports program who provide opportunities for kids to play. Being better rested we expected to play at a more consistent level and this was the case tonight. We were able to practice for an hour before the game and work on our understanding of how to play and it definitely worked. our offensive structure looked better but there's still room to improve. We were able to rotate all players throughout the game and with a 40 to 23 half time score we were comfortably in control for the first half. In the second half Carolina went to a zone to slow things down but this allowed us to work on our zone offense which we haven't spent much time on prior to the Tour. The second half was similar to the first and despite some patchy play we were able to extend our lead winning comfortably 70 - 43!! the first win on U.S. soil is always good but we do have to remember that we will run into some powerhouse highschool teams later this week which will be a real test for a relatively inexperienced squad. It should be noted that the hospitality of tonight's hosts was first class in every respect. The organisers really went out of their way to make us feel welcome, putting on an after game function as well as offering us the opportunity to meet the rest of the local community. The boys are in very good spirits and are looking forward to tomorrow's action - watching an NBA game - Charlotte Bobcats vs Denver Nuggets. I will attempt to include some of the video from tonight's contest tomorrow but it will be quite dull.

Game MVP - tie tonight - Tim Bydder & Sean McKinnon - Honorable mentions - Charles So & Brandon Talo

On another note we did some shopping at Prime Outlets, Gaffney SC and the boys were quite restrained with their spending but enjoyed the opportunity.