Oscar Kapakoulakis led all scorers with 19 points and Zac Bezzina closed with 17 points, four steals and three assists as Camberwell secured its place in the Big V Youth League 1 Men competition with a 94-65 win against Whittlesea at Altona Sports Centre on Sunday night.

Kapakoulakis made seven of his 10 field goal attempts and added six steals, while Josh Kohlman had 10 points and eight rebounds in 16 productive minutes for the Dragons, who outscored the Pacers 55-31 across the second and third quarters and never looked back.

It was an impressive performance by Camberwell, which hit back to qualify for Youth League 1 Men play after opening its Qualification Series with a 66-58 loss to Pakenham at the same venue earlier in the day. Matthew Marcun with a team-high 10 points in that one for the Dragons.

Our Youth League Men will open their 2025 Big V regular season campaign next month.

• Click HERE for the box scores from Sunday’s games.

Photo: Craig Dingle, Melbourne Sports Photography.

Camberwell Dragons announced Ben Crowe will play for the club’s Championship Men’s team in the Big V again this season.

Entering his fourth season with the Dragons senior program, Crowe is coming off a Big V campaign in which he averaged 13 points a game and shot the ball 40 per cent from the three-point line. He ranks fourth all-time at Camberwell for career three-pointers made.

We’ll have more Big V roster updates here and on our social media platforms on the road to next month’s season openers for all four of our senior teams.

The Championship Men, coached by Shawn King, will open their campaign on the road at Bellarine on March 29 before hosting RMIT in their home opener at Boroondara Sports Complex on Saturday, April 5.

In other Dragons Big V news, our Youth League Men, led by head coach coach Fraser Kennedy, will play Pakenham in a Youth Qualification game at Altona tomorrow (Sunday, 12.30pm). We’ll have updates here over the weekend.

Photo: Craig Dingle, Melbourne Sports Photography.

Camberwell In Business (CIB) was launched in April 2024 as a community for businesses to network, collaborate and thrive, and we’re excited to say our community is growing fast.

If you’re new to Camberwell Dragons or the Community Basketball League and/or are unfamiliar with what we’re doing to help bring our business community together, here’s five facts you need to know about CIB:

1. Our 2025 program is designed to attract key decision makers and will include three first-class networking events, featuring high-profile speakers, industry experts and engaging, thought-provoking content.
   
2. Our next event is a three-course dinner (including beer, wine and soft drink) at Pincho Disco, Collingwood, on Wednesday, March 19, featuring guest speaker Michele Timms. Michele is an Australian basketball great, three-time Olympian and Naismith Hall of Fame inductee. (See more about what’s included at this event below).
   
3. Camberwell In Business members come from a wide range of sectors, including, but not limited to, Legal, Hospitality, Transport, Building, Banking, Sport and Leisure, Media and Travel. Business profiles for all CIB members can be viewed in our Information Pack/E-Booklet at: https://online.fliphtml5.com/ydocm/vtfl/
   
4. Our experienced program leads are dedicated to making things happen through facilitating high-quality networking opportunities and are available to our members at any time.
   
5. Our packages start from as little as $990 (GST inc.) and include a ticket to all three of our 2025 networking events, access to a Camberwell In Business program lead and additional networking opportunities. To find out more about what we have to offer, please view our Information Pack/E-Booklet.

• Please note a limited number of seats are available for non-Camberwell In Business members to our March 19 event at Pincho Disco (7pm-10pm). Tickets are $130 a head (GST inc.) and include: The opportunity to hear from Australian basketball legend Michele Timms, a three-course Latin American feast, beer, wine and soft drink. To secure your seat today, email Camberwell Basketball Communications Manager Andrew Johnstone at [email protected] or call 0425 791 610.

To find out more about Pincho Disco, click HERE.

To join Camberwell In Business, to find out more about this initiative and/or to register your interest in attending a CIB Information night, please contact Andrew (details above).

Camberwell Basketball is delighted to announce that Rohan Short, Head of Operations at South East Melbourne Phoenix (NBL), is locked in as the special guest for this free Outside the Lines session on Thursday, March 20.

Rohan has enjoyed a long and successful career in sports administration and coaching over the past 25-plus years, with his stops including Athletics Australia, Townsville Crocodiles, the Victorian Institute of Sport, Commonwealth Games Australia, the Australian College of Sport and now Phoenix – his professional home since 2018.

Rohan has a wealth of experience to share and will talk about his journey and his current, wide-ranging role with Phoenix, which will open its NBL playoff campaign this month.

For more information about Rohan and his career, the subject matter for this session and Camberwell Basketball’s Outside the Lines program, please contact Andrew Johnstone at [email protected]

This session will be held in the Camberwell Basketball boardroom, 606 High Street, Kew, from 7pm-8.30pm on Thursday, March 20, and is free for all Camberwell Basketball (and affiliated leagues and clubs) members.

To register for this session, email Andrew Johnstone at the email address above by close of business on March 6.

• Launched by Camberwell Basketball in 2024, Outside the Lines is a series of interactive and practical workshops and seminars for CDBA (and affiliated leagues and clubs) members aged 15 and above interested in pursuing a non-playing career in sports. For more information, click HERE