The long established Warwickshire league club Tile Hill Trojans has formed a new junior team to compete in the Warwickshire league with players coming through from the clubs youth development program. The team played its first match on Wednesday this week away to a new mens team based in Rugby, who will also be competing in the Warwickshire league this season.

Trojans got off to a strong start with centre Matt Jenner scoring 9 first quarter points as they surged to a 17-12 lead at the end of the period, having held Rugby basketless for 5 minutes in the first period. Rugby responded in the second quarter with some aggressive defence and back to back three pointers from Prit Parmer saw them tie the game at 26 -26 with two minutes to play to halftime, and just edge to lead 28-30 at the half time buzzer.

The young Trojans squad dominated the third quarter, holding the opposition to just 7 points and scoring 18 as they forced Rugby to make turnovers and then capitalised on the fast break. Rugby stepped up their game in the last quarter and started to dominate inside as their 6ft7 centre started to find his form. Rugby edged in to the lead 57-58 for the first time in the last quarter with less than a minute to play, Tile Hill lost possession and with 18 seconds left had to foul sending Rugbys Parmer to the free throw line. Parmer calmly hit both free throws and Trojans quickly got the ball up court and put up a three point shot to tie the game which came up short. Rugby ran out victors 57-62. Former Crusaders Junior point guard Billy top scored for Trojans with 18pts, including two three pointers.

To view the game stats please click here

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The second Trojans Wildcats game took place on Sunday 25th July at Chessington Sports Centre. Trojans were without several key players, so were able to give debuts to Tom Anderson and Matt Jenna. The Wildcats were also missing players, but there were no youngsters available to step in for them. A good game, played in good spirit was close for 3 quarters but ended with an 87 - 69 win for Kingston.
The game started well for the Trojans who jumped out to a 6 - 0 lead. Kingston stuttered through the first 3 minutes without scoring. Carl Plunkett soon woke up to hit 3 threes in the first quarter giving the Wildcats a 16 - 10 lead after one period.
Last year's MVP guard Wes Chantler pulled down 7 rebounds in the first half, while Mark Bottiglia handed out 7 assists. Ross Emery led the Trojans revival with back to back threes mid way through the second quarter. However Kingston matched Tile Hill and headed to the half time break still with a 6 point lead 35 - 29.
The Wildcats started the second half with more threes including 4 more from Plunkett. Tile Hill found their shooting range too with threes from Anderson, Owen, Krupa and Jenna. With under 2 minutes to go in the quarter Kingston were up by 10. But a fight back led by the two Tile Hill debutants pulled the score back to 55 - 48 at the end of the third. The final quarter started slowly for Tile Hill, by the third minute more sharp shooting by the Wildcats had pushed their lead out to 19 points. Back to back threes from Jabob Krupa cut into that lead and with Jason Edwards controlling the boards the Wildcats lead was cut to 11 with 3 minutes to go. From there in Trojans just seemed to run out of steam, as the experienced Wildcats team protected their lead by running the clock down before getting good open shots. The final score wasn't indicative of the whole game and Tile Hill can feel they were a good match for a team that has reached the final of the National Founders Cup for the past three seasons.

Scorers Tile Hill: Tim Duckers 5, Scott Owen 11, Jacob Krupa 11, Jason Edwards 11, Ross Emery 12, Tom Anderson 13, Matt Jenna 6.
Kingston: Matt Pye 13, Carl Plunkett 24, Wes Chantler 11, Horacio Lopez 11, Mark Bottiglia 12, Mike Sullivan 8, Roger Lloyd 8.

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Trojans basketball are pleased to announce that fromer Trojan player Terry Donovan has been elected to the FIBA Europe Board.
More information can be found here

Trojans Basketball would like to wish Terry all the best in his new role.

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With many thanks to the hard working Tony Bates, he has been able to compile the statistics for the league games that took place during the 2009 & 2010 season. To see how you are doing see below.

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Are you collecting the new vouchers on offer at Sainsburys and Tesco? If so how about donating them to Trojans?

We are registering our Club in both schemes which will give us the chance to obtain new balls, kit and equipment for our young Trojans to use.

So let's see how many we can get over the next few weeks and months so we can give our kids a real boost for the new season.

Wehave around fifteen regulars coming to Hereward on Thursdays from 6-7 and they are really fired up to play our number one sport!

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Current and past editions of our very own newsletter the Trojan Times are availible from this page. If you would like any imput into the next newsletter please contact Mike Maddox.

Issue number 11 click here
Issue number 10 click here
Issue number 9 click here
Issue number 8 click here

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Trojans secretary Mike Maddox appeared on the Mark Powlett show on the Coventry and Warwickshire radio station to talk about the WBA and Trojans.

Fast forward to 40 minutes to hear the discussion Mike Powlett Show

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With many thanks to the hard working Tony Bates, he has been able to compile the statistics for the games that took place before Christmas. To see how you are doing see below.

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Since the new website was launched in late October our website has had a total of 1130 unique visitors. People from numerous places around England, including London, Nottingham, Uxbridge and Oxford. From outside the UK 23 different countries have looked on the website, these includes Wales, France, USA, Austria, India, Vietnam, Mexico and the Philippines!!!
We are averaging a total of 19 hits per day with the most popular time between 8-9pm on a Tuesday.
So as we head into 2010 we can hopefully build on our international recognition.

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Steve Burnett displayed his talent with the bowling ball at last weeks Christmas Party which was held at Tenpin, in Walsgrave Coventry. The 12 strong group enjoyed the bowling and the food which followed and the results were:

Steve Burnett 192, Roger Sinclair 178, Teet Reinson 155, Ross Alexander 153, Andy Reeves 139, Rob Pleming 122, Josh Cullen 119, Andy Dickson 109, Ross Emery 101, Scott Owen 98, Ash Dickson 90, Tom Lumley 89

Photos can now be located in the Gallery

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Trojans basketball have been given an editorial in local magazine "Your Call" to view the article please click here and view pages 48-49

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The Warwickshire Basketball Ladies Tournament was held on Sunday at Hereward College, and the four team which took part thoroughly enjoyed the four hour session. The winners were our very own Tile Hill Young Trojans, with Leicester University runners-up.



Warwick Uni 12 vs Tile Hill Trojans (the older ones!) 23
Leic Uni 27 vs Tile Hill Trojans (the younger ones!) 30
Tile Hill Trojans (the older ones!) 14 vs Tile Hill Trojans (the younger ones!) 14
Warwick Uni 10 vs Tile Hill Trojans (the younger ones!) 29
Tile Hill Trojans (the older ones!) 19 vs Leic Uni 27

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Previous tables and results from season gone by!

Results for the 2009-10 season click here
Final Tables for 2009-10 season here
Results for the 2008-09 season click here
Final Tables for 2008-09 season here

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The Warwickshire Basketball League, Telegraph press release will be available from here each week. Specific information on Trojans Basketball will highlighted in red.

Issue 28 for 2010 click here:
Issue 27 for 2010 click here: Issue 26 for 2010 click here: Issue 25 for 2010 click here;
Issue 24 for 2010 click here; Issue 23 for 2010 click here; Issue 22 for 2010 click here;
Issue 21 for 2010 click here; Issue 20 for 2010 click here; Issue 19 for 2010 click here;
Issue 18 for 2010 click here; Issue 17 for 2010 click here; Issue 16 for 2010 click here;
Issue 15 for 2010 click here; Issue 14 for 2010 click here; Issue 13 for 2010 click here;
Issue 10 for 2009 click here; Issue 9 for 2009 click here; Issue 8 for 2009 click here;
Issue 7 for 2009 click here; Issue 6 for 2009 click here; Issue 5 for 2009 click here;
Issue 4 for 2009 click here; Issue 3 for 2009 click here; Issue 2 for 2009 click here


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The Warwickshire Basketball League news letter, the Bear Facts will be available to download from here each week.


Issue 196 click here; Issue 195 click here;
Issue 194 click here; Issue 193 click here: Issue 192 click here;
Issue 191 click here; Issue 190 click here; Issue 189 click here;
Issue 188 click here; Issue 187 click here; Issue 186 click here;
Issue 185 click here; Issue 184 click here; Issue 183 click here;
Issue 182 click here; Issue 181 click here; Issue 180 click here;
Issue 179 click here; Issue 178 click here; Issue 177 click here;
Issue 176 click here; Issue 175 click here; Issue 174 click here;
Issue 173 click here; Issue 172 click here; Issue 170 click here;
Issue 169 click here; Issue 168 click here; Issue 167 click here

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Well done to our very Mike Maddox who on October 15th won the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Sports Award for Lifetime Achievement. This prestigious award was presented and the RICOH Arena for his 43 years of playing, coaching, refereeing and administration in basketball. I have no doubt that everybody in the club and Warwickshire Basketball would like to congratulate MIke on this tremendous achievement.

To view a full list of Mike's achievments please click here

You can also follow this link to the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio to listern to Mike's interview with Geoff Foster.

To view pictures and information on the event follow this link

Author: Ross Alexander