Canberra Pictorial

Canberra Capitals cruised through Townsville and into Preliminary Final against Sydney next week.

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Canberra Capitals has done it again in front of the brilliant home crowd at the AIS Arena. Caps prevailed Sydney Univ Flames in overtime 81 to 78.

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Lauren Jackson’s first home game with the Canberra TransACT Capitals at the AIS Arena in front of 2180 home crowd.

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Lauren Jackson’s bank to Canberra Capitals in the next few rounds!

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Canberra Capitals delivered something impressive in front of the home crowd with a few blowing punch in the final minutes to secure a 89-69 win against Townsville at AIS Arena this evening.

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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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