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Maree have claimed Ireland’s top honours in u-20 men’s basketball after avenging last year’s agonising one-point defeat to UCD-Marian in Saturday’s National Cup final.

Maree Basketball Club has started the season on a successful note with two cup wins in major tournaments in Cork.

Maree Basketball Club’s u-20s have advanced to the National Cup quarter-finals after recording a thrilling 67-63 win over perennial local rivals and 2008 champions, Moycullen. Maree will now enjoy a home fixture against Blue Demons of Cork in the next round.

A great weekend for Galway basketball was complete late Saturday night in Castleisland Kerry, when Maree advanced to two National Cup finals.

Maree consolidated their position as the No 1 u-18 basketball team in the country when they retained the title won last year for the first time.

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Maree Basketball Club hit the ground running in the first big tournament of the 2009/10 season. On Saturday in Gurranabraher they retained the u-20 Cork Open Cup which they had won for the first time last season, winning all five games.

Oranmore Maree, well-established as Galway’s basketball nursery, is set to embark on a new development with a men’s team in the National League.

Maree produced an encouraging start in their first National League fixture against the 2009 champions Ballon on Saturday, and while Ballon’s greater experience prevailed at the end, this was a game that could have gone either way.

Maree took the honours in only their second game of the National League when they overcame local rivals Titans in a packed Calasanctius gym at the weekend.