22 July 2008
Leopards announce 2008/09 fixtures
Leopards have announced their full fixture list for the 2008/09 season as basketball returns to the Brentwood Centre.
After hosting Kent Crusaders in a special game to welcome the Big Cats back to Brentwood on Sunday September 21, Jon Burnell’s team will be at home the following Saturday when Taunton Tigers are the visitors in the National Trophy group stage.
Bristol Academy Flyers also visit Brentwood in the Trophy on Sunday October 5, before Leopards travel for the first time in the campaign, to Reading Rockets on Saturday October 11.
With the Brentwood Centre only available for ten games, the Big Cats have announced that they will continue to play some home games at Wodson Park, Ware, and their first game of the season at the Hertfordshire venue will see them play either Richmond College or Oxford Brookes University in the second round of the National Cup.
Brentwood is the venue for the first EBL Division One game of the campaign when Leopards host Tigers again on Sunday October 26, and it also stages the final game of 2008 when Reading Rockets visit on Sunday December 21.
Leopards’ centre Leigh Greenan has been included in the England under-18 squad for the European Championships in Debrechen, Hungary.
After a season where he played significant minutes in Leopards’ first team, Greenan is expected to start for Andre Alleyne’s England side.
The competition starts on Friday, with England facing eight games in the space of ten days, starting with a tough test against tournament favourites Poland.
Greenan is joined in the 12-man England squad by fellow Barking Abbey
Academy players Robert Gilchrist and Bradley Wilkinson, who are expected
to feature in Jon Burnell’s Leopards team during the course of the
season.
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