New basketball league scores big at Rosetown Harvest Festival

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New to the Rosetown & District Harvest Family Festival was the Harvest Festival Basketball League which went on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, Oct. 11-12, in what is called the Rosetown Basketball Park in the north half of the St. Andrews Park tennis courts.

This included informal games among children and youth plus more competitive three-on-three and five-on-five competition among youth and adult teams.

Young players take part in a shooting competition during the Harvest Festival Basketball League events as one of the organizers, Elmer Ragnio (back, L), watches. Photo by David McIver

Michael Jadraque (R) awaits the basketball during this competition, part of the Harvest Festival Basketball League action on Oct. 11. Photo by David McIver

Results weren’t available for the four-team grades 7-8 and two-team girls open categories, which were both played three on three, nor for the three-point shoot and half-court shot contest.

The team of Bentley Opfergelt, Finn Cannon, Zayne Choumont and Foster Hayes won the grades 5-6 category, which had four teams in three-on-three competition.

Two teams each in age 16-35 and 36-plus categories played off in five-on-five basketball and then the winners of each of those categories played each other. Winning was a 13-member squad that included Oliver “Jude” Khoo, the main organizer of the league; Elmer Ragnio, Junar Junio, Joney Davide, Jeff Candelario, Erwin Tolentino and Michael Jadraque.

Khoo plans to do the basketball event not just at the 2026 harvest festival but also at some time around Christmas.

He thought of it as “a good addition” to the festival as it gives an opportunity to give young people something physical to do and gets them away from phones and TV, said Khoo.