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Maree have secured a play-off berth int heir first National League basketball season with a 100-91 win over Tolka Rovers.

Maree travel to Dubliner to face Tolka Rovers on Saturday evening (8pm) eager to maintain their momentum towards a play-off place.

Maree came agonisingly close to overcoming National Cup champions St Mary’s in Oranmore on Saturday.

Maree’s hopes of making the play-offs in this year’s National League division one basketball are still alive, despite losing to local rivals Titans by 86-76 on Saturday.

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.

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

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 recorded another victory in the National League, overcoming AOL Broadband Waterford before a large crowd in Oranmore on Saturday.