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Late basketball win

Ross Freemantle, of New Zealand, works his way into the Finnish goal area in a basketball match in the World Games for the Deaf at Cowles Stadium yesterday. The New Zealand team led until the last two seconds, but lost, 78-79.

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Taonga source:
The Press
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1989-052
Bibliographic source:
The Press, 9 January 1989, p.22
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