Day four at the 2018 Schick Secondary Schools National Championships produced some memorable games.
Manukura beat Ellesmere College 91-70 in the Girls ‘A’ Final and Stratford High School outlasted Te Aroha College, deprived of a couple of starters due to injury, 97-75 in the Boys ‘A’ Final.
The ‘AA’ semi-finalists have also been found with St Pat’s Kilbirnie, Rosmini College, St Kentigern College and St John’s Hamilton prevailing in the boys quarter-finals.
St Kent’s convincingly won the all-City of Sails encounter against Auckland Grammar 91-60 whilst Rosmini were equally dominant against hosts Palmerston North Boys (100-63). St Pat’s Kilbirnie beat Hamilton Boys on the show court 90-75 but Waikato prevailed in the other quarter as St John’s College beat Napier Boys 97-79.
The girls quarter-finals victors were Westlake Girls High School, Hutt Valley High, Queen Margaret College, Wellington and St Peter’s, Cambridge.
Westlake ousted Mt Albert Grammar on the buzzer 70-69 and Hutt Valley outlasted Hamilton Girls (76-69). Queen Margaret College and St Peter’s won one sided contests against St Andrew’s College (69-38) and Auckland Grammar (77-33) respectively.
LACEY LOWDOWN 
Thanks for the updates. Much appreciated. Loved your lists you posted yesterday with original seedlings vs actual final pool placings. Brilliant.
Even though there is a new format in place to overcome seeding issues it looked like the pools were poorly done with all those very strong teams ending up in pool A of the boys AA competition. And then some other pools that were clearly much easier. Would be interesting if you wrote an article on how those pools were out together. Just an idea!
Apologies for the late reply Lesley. Thanks for your positive feedback. Pools at Nationals are based on finishing places the previous years!!