Arista Marion Korfball Club

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Hi all

The Arsita’s website is under new mangerment

so feel free to send me any pictures, Stories, Team information or anything else you want posted on the site.

Needing some help with setting the site up so any ideas for about sections or club history would be great

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The Korfball Australia (KA), National Club Championships, were held on 12-13 June in Adelaide.  Club sides from Australia’s korfballing areas competed for the National title in both an A and B Grade section.  The strong Arista-Marion Korfball Club won their third successive A Grade final in a tight final against long time rivals, Adelaide Boomers.

Arista-Marion started off strongly, gaining an advantage they held for most of the first half. Some determined play by Boomers evened the score, before Arista-Marion again extended its lead and finished the game off strongly to again claim the National title. Final Score 14-11.

In the B Grade final between Adelaide Boomers  and Glenelg, scores remained close throughout the match with both teams having chances to win in the final minutes.  A 10 – 10 draw at the end of regulation time saw the first B Grade final in the history of this tournament to be decided by Golden Goal. Both teams had several attacks but failed to score until Adelaide Boomers scored the winning goal as a result of a penalty. Final Score 11-10.
Korfball Australia is proud of the high participation rate of female referees for the tournament, the most in the history of National Club Championships. KA are also pleased with the number of youth players participating in the tournament who will hopefully progress to representing Australia in next year’s Asia Oceania Championships also to be held in Adelaide in July 2011.
Final Standings A Grade
1. Arista-Marion
2. Adelaide Boomers
3. Glenelg
4. BMMKA
5. Sikopi
6. North Adelaide

Source:

INTERNATIONAL KORFBALL FEDERATION

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/worlds-largest-solar-audio-system-delivers-105db-to-40000-spectators/#more-342503

Earlier this month, Grzebik Design completed work on what they are calling the “world’s largest solar powered loudspeaker system” in the Taiwan National Stadium in Kaohsiung. It is capable of cranking out 105 dB of sound to 40,000 spectators.

The Taiwan National Stadium makes use of 60 distributed Apogee Sound AE-7SX weather-resistant loudspeakers for primary seating area coverage, 12 Apogee Sound ALA-5WSX weather resistant Acoustic Linear Array loudspeakers provides field coverage, and 2 Apogee Sound AFI-205 and two AFI-Point5 loudspeakers provide Control Room audio monitoring. The 76 loudspeakers are powered by 52 Peavey Electronics model PV2600 and 3 model PV1500 power amplifiers. Additional signal processing equipment includes Apogee Sound loudspeaker controllers, Symetrix SymNet Digital Signal Processing equipment, an Altair 48-channel mixing desk, Tascam CD, DVD and cassette players, Peavey Electronics, microphones, and CUE Touch Panel Controllers, all wired together with 9,500 meters (5.5 miles) of Klotz Cable.

Naturally, going 100% solar with an installation like this requires a buttload of green tech:

The ultra-modern $US5 billion Taiwan National Stadium, designed by renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito, and constructed for the 2009 World Games, features a stunning 14,155 square meter roof incorporating 8,844 solar panels, which emulates the form of a flowing river, and generates 1.14 million KWh annually preventing the release of 660 tons-per-annum of atmospheric carbon dioxide. On days when the Taiwan National Stadium is not in use, the electricity generated from its roof is fed back the city’s electrical grid where it will meet almost 80% of the area’s energy requirements.

Indeed, if you look at the images of the roof, it seems to be completely covered in “a flowing river” of solar panels.

A very disappointing end of tournament for Australia against Great
Britain. A slow start, missed penalties, short shots and run-ins and
lack of fitness turned what ought to have been a tight match into a romp
for the British.. At half time, the Australians had managed to recover
from a shocking 2-9 start to be only 3 goals down (8-11) and back in the
hunt for a win. But the British were able to extend the lead to 6 in the
opening minutes of the second half and retain that 6 goal lead until the
50th minute (14-20).. But the Australians were tiring and the last 10
minutes saw an almost unbelievable 16 goals scored!
Final score was 18-31, the highest tally for the tournament and making
the British the only non Dutch team to score 30+ goals in a match..

Other finals were less dispiriting. Czech Republic fought back against
Portugal to level the scores in the final seconds of regular time
through a Penalty shot. Taking the match to their second Golden Goal
decider. Clearly the Czech team has a game plan for Golden Goal as they
managed to score quickly to seal the win and claim 5th place.

Chinese Taipei played Russia for 3rd place and once again it was a
tightly fought contest. The Taiwanese team in front of a sold out
stadium and 16 TV cameras broadcasting to local TV overtook the Russians
after 18 minutes and took a 5 goal lead into half time 10-15. In the
second half, 2 Russian substitutions did nothing to assist them, instead
allowing the Taiwanese to break open the match with a 5 goal spurt.. The
Taiwanese taking Bronze 18-25.

Neither the Dutch or Belgians had been troubled by opponents in the Pool
or Crossover matches. The Belgians had surprised many with the manner in
which they'd dispatched the Taiwanese and Russians but now had to prove
themselves against the true measuring stick, the Dutch.. Over the past
few years, the Dutch have made a mockery of their fiercest rival so it
was to some (pleasant) surprise that at half time, the Belgians were
still in the game, only 3 goals down 13-10.. It took until the 40th
minute for the Dutch to open the distance between the teams and hold the
gain and at the 52nd minute with an 8 goal advantage, the match was all
but over. The Belgians did themselves proud to fight back to reduce the
margin to only 5. The Dutch (as expected) taking the Gold 25-20

Overall, placings in the tournament were to expectations. Perhaps the
only surprise being that Chinese Taipei did not challenge the Belgians,
but clearly the Belgians have improved and are somewhat of a challenger
to the Dutch. Whether the introduction of the Shot-Clock has had an
impact on the results will be seen in future tournaments. Certainly, the
scores across the tournament are higher than they have recently been
demonstrating that the rule has improved the spectacle which was its
primary aim. Crowd numbers and the inclusion of Korfball on EuroSport 2
TV throughout Europe is also another small stepping stone to improving
the footprint of our sport. So overall a successful tournament for the
IKF, if not Australian Korfball .

There is a possibility that we may be able to catch the final day’s competition in video..
I can’t get it to work, and all the instructions are in Chinese but there is a live streaming page here
http://hichannel.hinet.net/2009wg/live.html
it seems to be suitable for Internet Explorer users only so you need to use the IE Tab plugin if you’re a Firefox user and it tries to install a DRM component which fails on my work PC.

Link comes courtesy of my Ultimate Frisbee colleagues.. Hopefully those of us without Eurosport 2 can now watch some World Games Korfball too!
Steve

Australia faced Portugal for an opportunity to play off for 5th place on
Tuesday. Hamo led the way for the Australians with 7 goals (including 3
penalties) and the opening 2 goals of the match.
It was tight at half time 7-6 in favour of Portugal and "game-on" for
the second half….
Unfortunately, no-one told the Australians who seemingly forgot to
return to court as the Portuguese put on the opening 4 goals unanswered.
The Portuguese females were dominant all match, scoring freely in
offence (more than half the Portuguese score) and denying the strong
Australian female lineup many opportunities in defence. Only Jess May
scored and only once. But the Australian males also struggled to find
the basket. Australia adding only 4 goals to 15 in the second half!
Going down 22-10, a very disappointing result given the half time figures.

Great Britain squared up against Czech Republic in a tight, exciting
(despite very inaccurate shooting) match. After a blazing start, taking
the lead out to 2-6, the Czech's missed consecutive penalties and
allowed the British back into the game. Both team's inaccuracy evident
in the half time scoreline 5-6.
Despite losing a star player to a nasty knee injury, at the 53rd minute,
the Czech's were up by 3 and looking to finish off the match but the
British found a patch of accurate shooting from distance and pegged back
the margin to be down one goal at the 56th minute…
3 minutes later the scoreboard had not changed and it seemed the Czech's
would scrape home a win. With seconds remaining however, Britain were
awarded a free pass and levelled the score to take the match into the
first Golden Goal decider for the tournament.
The Czech's had the first attack in extra time and scored to put the
British under extraordinary pressure to re-level the score in their
first attack. They failed to do so and Czech were jubilant. 12-13 Golden
Goal..

The final 2 matches of the day were to determine who would play off for
first place on Tuesday. Belgium faced Russia but unlike the warm up
friendly in China, the Belgians totally outclassed the Russians in this
match. It was over in the first 12 minutes with Belgium up 7-0 from 6
different scorers! The Russians only managed to score their second goal
of the match in the 35th minute!
Sharpshooter Bart Cleyman (who plays in the Semi-Pro Dutch
Korfballeague) finished with 10 goals (5 Penalties). Final score 24-8.
The Belgians have not been challenged as yet in this tournament.. and
talk of the Taiwanese being the next big hope to upset the Dutch seem to
be premature..

Finally, as expected, the Dutch easily accounted for the Taiwanese. Jos
Roseboom with 9 goals (3 penalties) and purportedly worlds best player
Andre Kuipers with 5. Final score 29-13..

Tuesdays Finals are as follows.
2pm (Adelaide Time) 7-8th: Australia – Great Britain
4pm 5-6th: Czech Republic – Portugal
6pm 3-4th: Chinese Taipei – Russia
8pm 1-2nd: Netherlands – Belgium

Well, some exciting first halves by the Australian team shook the confidence of both Czech and Russia, but both managed to recompose themselves in the second halves of their matches to easily overcome the Australians. Poor shooting accuracy was the difference between the teams.

CZE-AUS
In the first match of the tournament, one which I predicted could be a surprise win for Australia, our team got off to a poor start. 9-4 down after 22 minutes, it was not the ideal start necessary for demoralising an opponent! To their credit however, the Australians slotted 5 of the next 6 goals to go into half time a very competitive 10-9 down.

After half time however, the Czech team used their distinct height advantage to control the rebound at both ends of the court. The shots were still coming from the Australians but they weren’t falling through the basket..
At the 55th minute with a 20-12, the Czechs relaxed and the Australians managed to catch up and finish a respectable 21-16. Dennis Giles top scored with 7 goals (including 3 penalties and another missed).

RUS-AUS
Another slow start saw Australia behind the Russians and taking a time-out after 16 minutes down 6-2.. But for 2 successive missed Penalties in the 18th minute, the Australians would have been down by one goal again at half time. As it happened though, the team went into the half with a 3 goal deficit, 9-6.
The Australians caught up early in the second half, bringing the score to 9-8. The Russians broke the charge however, putting on 4 unanswered goals, then another 3 to expand their lead to 16-9 at the 50th minute.
The game ran out 18-12. Top Scorers were Luke (3), Megan (2) and Dusty (5, including 4 Penalties).

Who knows what the effect of those 2 missed penalty opportunities might have had? But missed shots again were the Australian’s downfall.

(Hamo star’s in this KOC photo from the match demionstrating his “jumping capability” against the taller Russian opponents
and an IKF Slideshow of all the day’s matches including some Australians is here)

NED-AUS
Some thought this match was a foregone conclusion.. But after 9 minutes, a newcomer might have thought otherwise, Australia 0-1 up and having missed a penalty to boot!!
In the 10th minute, the Dutch finally remembered they were supposed to put the ball through the Yellow thing and levelled.. The first goal sparked the team and they shared the scoring to be 5-1 with 5 different goal scorers 5 minutes later! At 22 minutes, the scoreline looked more like what was earlier expected, 10-2 and the entire Dutch team on the scoreboard at least once..
At half time, the Dutch were up 12-3 but were forced to run lines as punishment for scoring less than 15 goals against a team the coach clearly had no respect for.. Uncharacteristically for a Dutch team, the second half was more intensive than the first (usually they’re so far in front they relax in the second and allow the underdog to “catch-up”). This time, they pulled out to a 25-4 lead at the 47th minute, then took off the pressure.. The match finishing 37-10.
The Australians were happy with the result. It’s one of, if not the, longest times the Dutch have been held scoreless at the start of a match and in this first International tournament under the shot-clock, they managed to run down the Dutch clock twice!

(IKF Photo slideshow, showing off the no-sleeve Dutch Uniforms and many Australian’s in the Green uniform here)

OTHERS
Other highlight matches from the Pools were Taiwan-Belgium.. Expected to determine who will face the Dutch, the Taiwanese were expected to win by many
observers following last year’s Youth World Championships performance where they finished second.. The Belgians had everything to prove and came out hard leading 14-9 at half time.. Their defensive pressure increased in the second half and they ran out easy winners 30-16.
This result gave Great Britain great confidence, having only lost 25-13 to Belgium, so the following day’s Taiwan-Great Britain became a crucial win for the British. They lead at half time 7-5, but at 45 minutes, scores were level (11-11) and the Taiwanese had the momentum and slowly drew away to win 17-14.

and in Pool A Czech Republic – Russia yesterday would determine who finished in the Top 2 to continue on to the Top 4 playoffs. The Czech’s started well, up 7-5 at half time and increased their lead with the first 3 goals of the second half to 10-5.. But Russia recollected themselves despite a Czech time-out halfway through a spurt of 5 Russian goals and scores were level 11-11 at the 45th minute. The last 10 minutes saw rapidfire scoring of a goal per minute but the Russians were the more effective winning the game and the right to play Belgium for a chance against the Dutch 19-15.

Final pool standings are:

Today’s matches will be: