{"id":45565,"date":"2026-05-29T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=45565"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:01:44","slug":"play-of-the-week-19","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/play-of-the-week-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Play of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior First Basketball team earned &#8216;Play of the Week&#8217; honours last week following an exciting performance against SCEGGS.<\/p>\n<p>With the game closely contested throughout the opening half, the combination of young gun <strong>Balbay Boyd<\/strong> (Year 7) and experienced baller <strong>Ruby Baker<\/strong> (Year 10) proved decisive late in the match. In the final minutes, the pair linked up brilliantly, producing several outstanding passages of play that bamboozled the SCEGGS defence. Their composure and teamwork helped extend the lead and ultimately sealed a well-deserved victory for MLC School.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to coach Bowen for his tactical brilliance and Balbay, Ruby, and the entire MLC01 team on a fantastic performance. Well done to everyone involved!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-45563 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball--480x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball--480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball--1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball--113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/05\/Basketball-.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senior First Basketball team earned &#8216;Play of the Week&#8217; honours last week following an exciting performance against SCEGGS. With the game closely contested throughout the opening half, the combination of young gun Balbay Boyd (Year 7) and experienced baller Ruby Baker (Year 10) proved decisive late in the match. In the final minutes, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-45565","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/45565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=45565"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=45565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}