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Image Courtesy of Dan Crowther The Kestrels are through to the NBL Division One Play-Off Semi Finals after an 85-70 win against Birmingham City University, with an Andre Arissol 32-point performance. The home side knew what was needed of them to progress into the next round of the Play-Offs, having beaten Birmingham City University earlier in the season. However, the month of March can be full of surprises. The trusty offence of Andre Arissol settled the ship early, despite t

Image Courtesy of Dan Crowther The Kestrels lose out in the opening round of the Division Two Play-Offs with a 62-50 loss against the Milton Keynes Breakers. The battle of the 1 st seed in the north and the 4 th seed in the south, MK Breakers came into the game as favourites, however, the Kestrels ended the season with a strong run of results and had a sense of momentum, despite the loss against the London Cavaliers most recently. Aimee Nwabisi opened the scoring to begin t

Image Courtesy of Dan Crowther The Solent Kestrels have been crowned champions of NBL D1 Pool B after an extremely dominant 87-49 victory against CoLA. Thomas Blower led all scoring, netting 15 points in 22 minutes to equal his highest scoring game for the Kestrels and show out in front of a packed-out Solent Sports Complex in the final home game of the regular season. Elijah Lotriet was the player who opened the scoring, banking in a three from the left wing right in front o

Image Courtesy of Dan Crowther Andre Arissol and Jakub Ofman combined for 50 to ease past the London Stars with a 96-59 win on the Kestrels’ return to the Solent Sports Complex on Saturday evening. However, both had a somewhat slow start to the game, with the first bucket coming in an unusual manor as Ashley Briggs nailed a right wing three just 10 seconds into the game, to the delight of his teammates who shot up out of their seats on the bench. Elijah Lotriet was brought in

Image Courtesy of Luke Simcock The Kestrels completed a 63-47 over the London All Stars on the South Bank of the country’s capital on Saturday and closed the gap on league leaders Barking Abbey. Led by Faith McDowall's 19 points, the away side were consistent across all four quarters to come out on top. A slow start from the tip however, with the All Stars going ahead early and building on it, with an 8-2 lead halfway through the opening quarter. Fatumah Lwazi opening the sco

Image Courtesy of Luke Simcock It was back to winning ways for the Solent Kestrels Men’s senior team this weekend as they picked up a pair of victories in both the League and National Cup competitions. Saturday saw them hand London Elite a 103-63 defeat on the road in the capital, as they bounced back from defeat last weekend, before making the long journey to the south west to take on Exeter Spartans in the National Cup 3rd round, bringing home a 91-62 victory to advance to

Image Courtesy Kai Johnson Solent Kestrels are pleased to announce the addition of Elijah Lotriet to Men’s senior squad, ahead of the...

Head of Women's Basketball Vicky Milner delivering on the Level 2 Coaching Course Itchen College has successfully completed the first...