SoCal High School & Prep Report

Thousand Oaks Tourney: Newbury
Park Beats Aussies--(December 11,1997)

We neglected to report on Wednesday's game in this tourney between Newbury Park and Bendigo, the Australian team visiting the States to play in this tournament. Well, we hope they're here for some other reason that basketball, because Newbury Park beat up the kids from down under 84-69.

We didn't get to see this game, but newspaper and other eyewitness accounts put Daniel Bobik with 19 points, eight assists and eight rebounds, Robert Congelliere with 18 points and Brian Polen with 16 points and 11 boards. Newbury Park improved its record to 5-2 on the season, and so far has only lost to Chaminade and Simi Valley, both considered to be two of the top teams this year.

Australia we're told has this big kid, who actually looks like he's been through high school a couple of times, and we're guessing from the newspaper accounts that he is Ben Hunt, who led the Aussies with 38 points in the losing cause. We'll be at the finals on Friday night so we'll get a chance to look at these guys up close and we'll have a full report on all the teams and players then.

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