Canberra Pictorial

Nunawading Spectres has had a tough weekend in the nation’s capital, defeated by Canberra Gunners on Saturday and the AIS Basketball Team this afternoon at the AIS Training Hall. It was such an excitement to see the line-up of the AIS Basketball Team this year, from 2nd year stars like Jordan Page, Brock Motum to new scholarship holders like Jason Cadee. With a victory at hand in their first home game and this will definitely be a thrilling year of basketball for the AIS.

AIS 97 (M Dellavedova 16, C Salecich 12, Ryan Broekhoff 11, Jason Cadee 11, Hugh Greenwood 11) def.
Nunawading Spectres 72 (Nathan Kennedy 13, J Todorov 11, Mark Whitehead 10)

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The Canberra Pictorial team has worked hard to download, sort, crop, and categorise all 928 selected images from the ACTLAA Championship. We are pleased to announce that they are now available for viewing from below links.

>> Complete Canberra Pictorial Coverage on ACTLAA State Championship.

$15/image special deal is offered to all 928 images from the 2-day event. All images will be edited and fine-tuned before delivery. All images are delivered digitally via Canberra Pictorial secured website.

If your photo is in the Editor’s Selections of the Day!, please contact us and we would like to offer you a free 8″ x 12″ print delivered to celebrate your fantastic sporting moment!

Congratulations to all athletes competing in the 2009 ACTLAA State Championships. What a way to showcase the energy, emotion, and sportsmanship from our little athletes. 700 images has been selection for editing and we will upload all of them for viewing later this week. In the meantime, check out out editor’s choices of the day!

Editor’s Selections of the Day! Day 1

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More than 600 little athletes gathered at the AIS Athletics Field for a weekend of thrilling track and field actions. The emotions going on on these little athletes’ face are of sheer excitement. It’s more than winning the medals, it’s the participation in itself that brings all the children together; hence the community.

It is an honor to be part of the action and we will continue to cover Day 2 of the ACT Little Athletics State Championship from the AIS Athleties Field tomorrow, and all images for sale from today will be uploaded shortly have been uploaded.

The Australian Senior Women Basketball Team, The Opals, campaign is beginning to shape up and ready for its Camps #1 in AIS from April 2-5. Among the 28 athletes selected for the squad, three current Canberra Capitals players were named. I used the word “current” because there is Lauren Jackson and Tully Bevilaqua who you can’t credit more for their past contribution to the Capitals WNBL success.

Natalie Hurst, Abby Bishop, and Marianna Tolo, all Grand-finalists in the 2008/09 WNBL season for the Canberra Capitals, will suit up for the Australian team in 2009. All 3 of them are expected to attend the first Opals Camp at AIS Training Hall in April and are will likely take part in a 2-match series against New Zealand Tall Ferms at AIS in September.

We will see a lot of familiar faces in the Opals squad, including Tully Bevilaqua and of course the Opals head coach Carrie Graf.

They met 4 times in the 2008/09 season of WNBL. Bulleen had gotten closer each and every time.

This evening, at the ultimate decider, Bulleen Boomers got real close. But not close enough.

In fact, it was worlds apart. Congratulations to the Canberra TransACT Capitals - WNBL Champion of the 2008/09.

Canberra Capitals 61 (Michelle Musselwhite 13, Marianna Tolo 12, Natalie Hurst 12) def.
Bulleen Boomers 58 (Katrina Hibbert 14, Elyse Penaluna 14, Sharin Milner 12)

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