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Maree, still top of the Men’s National League Southern Conference, turn their attention to cup action this weekend.

Maree’s debut season in the National League ended in Castleisland on Saturday night.

Maree have advanced to the semi-finals in what is becoming a remarkable first season in the men’s basketball National League.

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

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, already off to a respectable 2-2 start in their first ever Men’s National League campaign, knocked out 2008 winners UCD-Marian in their first round National Cup encounter in Oranmore on Saturday November 14th. It was a tough, physical game, in which UCD-Marian incurred several technical fouls, and Maree struggled to find their form, before pulling away for a 69 – 56 win. An encouraging aspect of the Oranmore-Maree outfit’s victory was that 5 players finished with 10 points or more, the kind of spread of scoring that they and their coaches have been looking for.

Maree lost a pulsating National Cup quarter-final by 71 -77 in Ballina on Saturday night.