The final stages of the South East Boys Under 17 Basketball league is starting to heat up with 3 teams now fighting to finish in the top spot. The Berkeley Wolves who play out of Thomastown in Kilkenny are presently the league leaders, having won an impressive 9 of their last 10 league games with just two more games to play in the 2025/26 season. They are followed by the Kilkenny Stars and the Waterford Vikings. The Berkeley boys’ first defeat of the season was at the hands of the Kilkenny Stars last week in what was a big Kilkenny local derby, with the Stars nipping the win with a big 3 pointer in the dying seconds of the game in what was a nail biting finish with the final score 52-49.
The Berkeley Wolves coach Russ Ryan said ‘’as the league goes into its final stages it’s all to play for with very little between the top three teams’’. Russ said as a small and relatively new club that was set up in 2019 with approx. 60 members, we are delighted to be competing against the much bigger clubs like the Waterford Vikings, the Kilkenny Stars and Carlow Basketball club, our lads continue to show that high energy and determination shows that they can compete against the bigger established clubs.
Russ also said that it was great to see two teams from County Kilkenny (presently holding first and second place positions in the South East Regional League.
The Berkeley Wolves Under 17 team will play their final league game which will be another Kilkenny local derby where they take on the Kilkenny Stars again in Grennan College at 8pm on the 26th of February in what should be another very competitive encounter.
