Not content with this, Mohamed and the Hurricanez would plow through the Autumn 2007 season in Under 16 Division 2. Opening the season and the year with a career high 17pts, Mohamed would help drive the Hurricanez to back to back Grand Final appearances with a solid 132 point season in 21 games (average 6.32ppg). The Hurricanez would fall 9pts short to Iramoo with Mohamed scoring 7pts in the Grand Final in what would also prove to be his 50th career game.
Mohamed also played the final few games of the Autumn 2007 season with the Rimrockers in Under 18/20 Division 3. Mohamed scored 38 points from his 6 games with the Rimrockers, leading the team in scoring on 2 occasions.
2007 saw Mohamed become a genuine game-breaker. His selection to rep in October was a reward for his commitment to the game, and his commitment and attitude to continued improvement. 2007 was not only a true breakout year for Mohamed, but it was also a marathon one. 2007 saw Mohamed play 3 complete seasons, a part season with the Rimrockers as well as 2 tournaments with the Hurricanez.
He played in the 2007 Melbourne Tigers Tournament with the Hurricanez, finishing 3rd placed, but producing a tournament resume of 48 points in 5 games, including a career high 24pts against Craigieburn Eagles.
The Spring 2007 season would present a dual season. Playing both U16s with the Hurricanez and U18/20's with the same Hurricanez team, Mohamed continued to develop further. Through the U16 Hurricanez season, Mohamed played
18 games and scored a new career best 173 season points. In U18/20's, the Hurricanez overshot all expectations and made the finals, finishing an admirable 3rd place. In this season, Mohamed would play 13 games, and scoring 96 points.
In October 2007, Mohamed took part in the Great Western Tournament with the Hurricanez. In 5 tournament games, Mohamed scored 40pts. The team would make the Grand Final, losing by 6 points to the Port Fairy Pacers, 37-43.
Throughout 2007, Mohamed played a total of 68 games, scoring 527 points at an average of 7.75ppg.
Saturday December 15th 2007 - A Day For The Ages
A remarkable and unique day that shall never be repeated. The Under 16 Division 2 Grand Final between Corpus Christi Invaders and the Woodville Hurricanez would churn out a sequence of events the likes of which will not ever repeat. In their hat-trick Grand Final, the Hurricanez were down early, by as much as 12 at one point, yet this team just fights and fights and fights. Nearing the end of regulation time, they'd come right back to 1-2pts down, then Aaron fouls out. With just the 5 on the court to play with Ashwin is sent to the foul line. The Hurricanez are two points down, and 9 seconds are left. He makes the first, 1pt down, and then under the most extreme of pressure, swishes the second one. SCORES LEVEL and it's heading to overtime. 39-39. There was a distinct game shift. Hurricanez are confident, Corpus Christi had lost an opportunity, and the throat was perhaps tightening. Enter the first over-time, 5 minutes in duration, Ashwin then fouls out, so the Hurricanez are down to 4 players. Almost indescribably, this team of just supreme fighters not only kept level one player down, but got in front! Then, with less than a minute in the first overtime, Mohamed fouls out, so they are now down to three players. A MASSIVE, MASSIVE challenge now. Again, somehow, someway, totally inexplicable, with seconds left in the first overtime, the Hurricanez get the steal and tear to the basket, and Damian ices two foul shots. The 3 Hurricanez have tied it all up again, and go into a second Overtime, 49-49. This is with 3 players left on the court! Of the three left, Cameron was on 1 foul, Damian on 4, and Andrew on 4. Enter the second over time, and by this point, the game was running well late, and everyone had just converged on this court to watch this extraordinary team dare the impossible. The second overtime begins, and within a minute Andrew fouls out. The Hurricanez are now down to 2 players, and still equal at 49-49. By this stage, the result didnt matter. This was a display of courage, heart and total determination that no Premiership trophy could ever, ever symbolise. With Damian and Cameron on the court, and playing 2 on 5, A shot went up, Damian grabbed the defensive rebound and just ran at the Hurricanez basket. He burned the lot of them, put up a running lay-up with about 3 guys crashing on him, and he scored. With two players, the Hurricanez are up 51-49. With still 2:30 odd to play it was a long shot to pull out a win. Corpus Christi came down the court and scored, 51-51, and then Damian fouled. His 5th foul, and as basketball rules state you cant play with 1 player, the game ended there and then. The Hurricanez, in their record 6th Grand Final in 7 seasons, came Runner Up, but the scoreline will read 51-51 with an * next to it. Mohamed and the entire team were literally swamped by everyone, spectators, their team, their coaches, their supporters, total bystanders. Just everyone that had witnessed that wanted to get to that team and congratulate them.
On Tuesday July 15th 2008, Mohamed was a part of the Hurricanez team that finished the Autumn 2008 regular season with a resounding 119-35 victory over St Peters Monarchs. This represents the highest ever score achieved by a Woodville team, with the 84pt margin the 3rd highest in club history. Mohamed scored 22pts in this game.
July 2008 - Mohamed took part with the Under 18 Hurricanez at the 2008 Melbourne Tigers Tournament. The Hurricanez were beaten Semi Finalists with Mohamed scoring 21pts in 4 games. This was Mohamed's first real test after returning from a 4 week lay-off due to a collarbone injury. The 1st Qualifying game of the tournament, a 34-35 loss to Morwell Magic was also Mohamed's 100th career game.In October 2008, Mohamed played with the Under 18 Hurricanez at the 2008 Great Western Tournament. The Hurricanez were again, beaten semi finalists, just losing by 4pts to Port Fairy Pacers (28-32) in a rematch of the 2007 Final. Mohamed gave his all, scoring 25pts throughout the 5 games he played.
Mohamed entered his final game of 2008 requiring 12 points to reach 1000. A match up against the top of the ladder Woodville Sonics would produce a 2pt loss for the Hurricanez, a 46-48 loss in which Mohamed would score the exact 12 he required to reach 1000. He achieved this in his 126th game on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008.
Mohamed began coaching in 2008. His Under 14 Jaguars advanced all the way to the Autumn 2008 Preliminary Final, falling 4pts (26-30) short of making the Grand Final, completing Mohamed's first season with a 3rd place finish. Mohamed and the Jaguars would also finish 3rd in the Summer 2008/09 season. In 2009, Mohamed is taking charge of the Under 16 Magic through the Summer 2009/10 season.
Mohamed reached his 150th career game on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009. In what was Round 8 of the Winter 2009 season, Mohamed scored 11pts as the Hurricanez defeated Heathdale Red 82-18. Mohamed would share the milestone honours on this night with his team-mate Ashwin Kumar, who played in his 250th career game as well. In the Winter 2009 season, Mohamed would win his 2nd Premiership as the Hurricanez pulled out a 17-1 season. Mohamed scored 14pts in the Grand Final as the Hurricanez opened with a 14-0 start before holding out for a 42-36 win over St Peters Sonic Boom in the Winter 2009 Under 18/20 Division 3 Grand Final. Mohamed won his 2nd Premiership in his 172nd game.
Mohamed's highest points total in a season has come in the Winter 2009 season, playing with the Hurricanez in Under 18/20 Division 3, Mohamed scored 303 points from 20 games at an 15.2 average. Over his career, Mohamed has registered 8 games of 20+ points, his career high being 34pts scored on May 12th, 2009, in Round 6 of the Winter 2009 season for the Under 18/20 Hurricanez. The Hurricanez recording a 79-24 win over Corpus Christi Stingers.
In 18 finals games Mohamed has scored 145 points. Mohamed has also scored 58 points in his 6 Grand Final appearances.
Mohamed represented the Woodville Hurricanez at the Inaugural 2009 Geelong Club Challenge Tournament, claiming the Team MVP by playing 4 games and scoring a team-leading 51 points.
In October 2009, Mohamed and the Under 18 Hurricanez played off in the 2009 Great Western Tournament out of Altona and Keilor. Through 6 games, the Hurricanez went 4-2 to go on and win the Tournament with a resounding 55-33 Grand Final win over Falcon Rebels.
Mohamed would be named the Grand Final MVP and finished the tournament with a team leading 66 points from 6 games.
Over Mohamed's career, which is still currently active with the Under 18/20 Hurricanez, a career now spanning 4 years, Mohamed has played for 2 WOODVILLE teams. He has played for the RIMROCKERS and HURRICANEZ, ranging in age groups from under 16's through to under 18/20's. Mohamed has played in six grand finals, those coming in Spring 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2007, Summer Altona 2008/09, Winter 2009 and Winter Altona 2009. Mohamed has played in 2 Premierships, coming firstly with a 34-18 win in Spring 2006 (Mohamed scoring 14pts) and in Winter 2009 with a 42-36 win for the Hurricanez in Under 18/20 Division 3 with Mohamed scoring 14pts. Mohamed has also played off in two Tournament Grand Finals for one Championship and one Runner Up. The Runner Up coming in the 2007 Great Western Tournament, the Hurricanez losing to the Port Fairy Pacers 37-43, with the Championship of 2009 at the Great Western Tournament in a 55-33 win over Falcon Rebels.
Now in his 10th season, Mohamed has scored more than 100 points in a season on 8 occasions, recording season scores of over 150 points on 4 occasions and a massive 300+ point season in Winter 2009.
A fantastic role-model for everything Woodville, it's an honour well deserved that Mohamed Hagi-Hashi is inducted into the Woodville Hall Of Fame in 2009.