Basketball: sportsfile - Games glory bid was basket case.FURIOUS Troon Tornadoes The Troon Tornadoes are one of Scotland's leading amateur basketball clubs, competing in the Scottish Men's National League. They are based in the town of Troon, South Ayrshire, and play out of the sports hall at Marr College. coach Tom Campbell last night accused basketball bosses of wrecking his side's Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup[1], usually known as the Scottish Cup, is the national cup knockout competition in Scottish football. The trophy awarded to the winners has the distinction of being the oldest national trophy in the world. final hopes. The league champions take on Edinburgh Kings today in a repeat of last year's final. The Ayrshire side won on that occasion and are hot favourites to repeat the feat at Meadowbank against the team they pipped to the title in February. However, Campbell hit out at Basketball Scotland for shutting down the domestic competition during the Commonwealth Games Commonwealth games, series of amateur athletic meets held among citizens of countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. Originated (1930) as the British Empire games, the series is held every four years and is patterned after the Olympic games; women have participated . He said: "We had three players in the Scotland side and another two who went out to Melbourne to watch. "So we weren't able to practise for four weeks and are still not playing the way we were two months ago. "Edinburgh didn't have anyone in the Scotland team, which was controversial, but that's helped them. "If we'd played this game five weeks ago I'd have been pretty confident but now it's going to be an uphill battle." Meanwhile, the women's final pits Edinburgh Kool Kats against St Mirren. |
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