LACEY LOWDOWN

The lineup for next week’s Auckland Secondary Schools Boy’s Premier League semi-finals has been finalised following the completion of the final round of the regular season.

With Westlake Boys crushing St Kentigern College (94-55) and Auckland Grammar completing a comfortable win against Rosmini (93-60) there was a three-way tie for second spot on the ladder behind clear leaders Rangitoto College. 

Westlake, AGS and St Kent’s all finished with a 10-4 record but after the big loss on Friday night St Kent’s points differential took a hammering and they will now meet Rangi in one semi-final with Lake and AGS meeting in the other.

When St Kentigern coach Aaron Young took a timeout two minutes into the contest at Westlake you sensed it could be a long night for the East Auckland outfit. They managed just 6 points in the opening quarter as Westlake rattled up a 19 point lead.

Caleb Mattison and Kazlo Evans provided St Kent’s with the ideal start to the second quarter but hopes of a revival were quickly snuffed out by Christian Martin and Rocco Chang as the hosts surged to a 52-22 half-time lead.

St Kent’s agony was prolonged in the middle of the third by a fire alarm evacuation and things didn’t get any easier on the resumption as Boston Caldwell and Hamza Zahran added to St Kent’s woes.

Westlake 94 – C Martin 28, B Caldwell 20, H Zahran 19, R Chang 17

St Kentigern 55 – K Evans 20, M Rillstone 16, K Rangihaeata 6, F Groves 5

Auckland Grammar rode an outstanding first half display from Caleb Landon to set up the win against Rosmini College.

The rangy forward, relentless on the offensive boards, piled on 25 points and a succession of rebounds as Grammar eased to a 44-30 interval lead.

Tom Beattie scored 16 of his 27 points in the third but Toby Caldwell and Luka Vea kept Grammar in the ascendancy – the hosts ahead 68-48 at the last break.

The lead blew out in the third with Liam Ward, to the delight of the home supporters, nailing a couple of long threes to cap a commanding display from Lindsay Tait’s boys.

AGS 93 – C Landon 34, T Caldwell 24, L Vea 17, J Todd 8, L Ward 6
Rosmini 60 – T Beattie 27, C Dalton 9, P Maxwell-Topia 8, K Murphy 6

Rangitoto College, the regular season champions, didn’t find it easy going at Mt Albert Grammar but did eventually prevail 67-63.

MAGS led 14-12 at quarter time but were outscored 22-12 in the second period.

Rangi extended their advantage to 52-39 at three-quarter time before MAGS mounted a spirited comeback in the fourth.

Harri Coker-Grey began the revival, Phoenix Sorensen added a triple with Dante Matakatea adding further momentum.

Zach Riley and Zeke Priest steadied the ship for Rangi, the pair scoring 13 of their combined 40 points in the closing minutes.

Rangi were bolstered by the appearance of Tautoko Wynyard after a long absence through injury. Playing his first game in almost two years he got through almost 13 minutes of action scoring 6 points and snaring 8 rebounds in a welcome return to action.

MAGS 63 – D Matakatea 15, H Coker-Grey 14, A Luamanuvae-Sua 11, P Sorensen 7

Rangitoto 67 – Z Riley 23, Z Priest 17, T Wynyard 6, M Ropotini 5

The bottom of the table clash ended with St Peter’s College recording a 94-62 win over Liston College.

Jack Donnelly scored 38 points for St Peter’s supported by Scott Errey and Jacob Nola.

Rasheed Ieremia’s (22 points) topped the Liston effort with Dhon Lao chipping in with 10.

Shout out to coaches Mikey Graham and Benny Anthony Jnr, and their players, for competing throughout a challenging season for both teams.

St Peter’s 94 – J Donnelly 38, S Errey 20, J Nola 12, D Sula 9, O Leigh 6

Liston 62 – R Ieremia 22, D Lao 10, L Smith 7, T Chataira 7, P Ma’afu 6

Final Boys Premier League Standings 

13-1 Rangitoto

10-4 Westlake, AGS, St Kentigern

7-7 Rosmini

4-10 MAGS

2-12 St Peter’s

0-14 Liston

In the Girl’s Secondary Schools Senior A League, One Tree Hill College and Saint Kentigern College will play on Friday to decide the regular season title.

Third placed is yet to be decided with both Northcote College and Mt Roskill Grammar having identical 7-6 records.

Results from Monday night:

Mt Roskill 56 – I Chanchui 24, T Jallow 16, P Chanchui 6, B Ioane 6

One Tree Hill 64 – S Cook 32, A Vahai 17, J Upo 5, J Tairea 5

St Kentigern 74 – A Tuumaialu 12, M Pavlenko 15, M Bennett 15, N Vavau 10, M Mealamu 8 

AGGS 41 – M Kohunui 20, L Patuwairua 14

Pakuranga 40 – J Koteka 13, P Fausia 11, E Vaka 6

Pukekohe 55 – M Williams 16, S Conroy 13, A Crane 9, M Talakai 8

Avondale 77

Northcote 59

Senior A Girl’s  Standings with one round remaining.

12-1 St Kentigern, One Tree Hill

7-6 Mt Roskill, Northcote

5-8 Avondale

4-9 Pukekohe, 

3-10 AGGS 

2-11 Pakuranga

In the Boy’s Secondary Schools Senior A League Sacred Heart College, Aorere College and Northcote College are still battling it out to decide the runners-up place behind Mt Roskill Grammar.

Results from Monday night:

Sacred Heart 86 – A Davies 21, J Stewart  19, L Suasua 11, J McKay 11

Massey 48 – J Fuimaono 17, S Viliamu 12, G Ryan 11, P Parker 8

Mt Roskill 91

Macleans 60

Aorere 85

Long Bay 79

Northcote 96

Avondale 89

Senior A Boy’s Standings 

12-1 Mt Roskill, 

10-3 Sacred Heart, Northcote

9-4 Aorere

4-9 Avondale

3-10 Macleans

2-11 Massey, Long Bay

The Auckland Secondary Schools Girl’s Premier League regular season title will be decided in the final round when Westlake entertain Baradene College on Saturday afternoon.

Baradene College dominated Massey High School to win 85-47. A 17-10 quarter time lead became 47-19 by the break.

Allyah Leusogi-Ape topped the Massey scoring with 17 points.

Ritorya Tamilo (21 points) led the Baradene scoring as her team warmed up nicely for the Westlake encounter on Saturday.

Massey will face Carmel College in the relegation game on Friday.

Baradene 85 – Tamilo 21, D Topia 15, L Parke 13, S Faleafa 12, P Cavanagh-Briggs 8

Massey  47 – Leusogi-Ape 17, Z Tilby-Woods 11, T Waikiki 9, C Schuster 6

Carmel College were defeated 95-48 by St Mary’s College in their penultimate game of the season.

Jemma Cammell was again outstanding scoring half of Carmel’s points but St Mary’s had too much firepower and didn’t look back after securing a 29-10 quarter time lead.

Kodee Sefu (27 points) and Alex Moore (20 points) led the way for St Mary’s that wrapped up third spot on the ladder with the victory.

Carmel 48 – Cammell 24, R Railton 6, I O’Rourke 6

St Mary’s 95 – Sefu 27, Moore 20, K Leslie 14, F Ualika 14, T Atiga 8

Epsom Girls, having already wrapped up the fourth semi-final berth were given a tough time at Mt Albert Grammar before prevailing 65-60.

Draun Forbes, on her way to a game high 23 points, scored a dozen in the opening spell as Epsom forged a 23-13 lead.

A couple of threes from Danae Tait plus buckets from Waimanu Clarken helped MAGS reverse the momentum to lead 33-30 at the half.

The third was a close battle with Forbes and Flo Dallow edging Epsom back into the lead, albeit by the narrowest of margins (46-45).

Tiger-Lily Cocker-Lemalie and Ana-Rachel Enari scored 5 points apiece for MAGS in the final period but that was bettered Sarah-Joy Aruwa’s 7 points and Dallow’s 6 as Epsom prevailed.

MAGS will entertain Rangitoto on Friday, with the winners claiming fifth spot on the League table.

MAGS 60 – Cocker-Lemalie 16, Clarken 15 Tait 13, A Enari 7

Epsom 65 – Forbes 23, Dallow 19, S Aruwa 18

In the other game Westlake were too strong for Rangitoto posting a 117-47 win ahead of the decider with Baradene College.

Rangitoto 47 – A Riley 32, Z Sain 7, C Devonshire 4

Westlake 117 – I Pugh 27, A Fotu 19, S Barnard 14, M Boucher 14, R Dil 11, R Moors 10, A Pateman 9

Girls Premier League Standings 

13-0 Westlake

12-1 Baradene

9-4 St Mary’s 

7-6 Epsom

4-9 MAGS, Rangitoto 

2-11 Massey

1-12 Carmel

In the penultimate round of the season Rangitoto College wrapped up the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier League regular season title with a 96-80 home win against Westlake Boys on Monday night.

A high scoring opening period saw Rangi establish a 29-21 lead before breaking the game open with a 27-15 second term to lead by 20 at the break.

The Z-attack of Zeke Priest and Zach Riley did most the damage accumulating a collective 57 points.

Riley is in a rich run of form at the moment, his 37 points in this game following on from 30 against Rosmini on Friday.

Boston Caldwell , Rocco Chang and Christian Martin were the leading scorers for Westlake on a night when they were second best.

Rangitoto 96 – Riley 37, Priest 20, L Payne 14, Z Sladoja 9, J Fotu 8

Westlake 80 – Caldwell 23, Martin 16, Chang 16, H Zahran 12, T Pang 6

St Kentigern College broke clear of the three-way tie for second spot with a hard fought 79-76 home win against Auckland Grammar.

If Zach Riley is in great scoring form for Rangitoto the same can be said for St Kentigern guard Kazlo Evans. Playing his final game on his home court the Year 13 guard scored 34 against Grammar after nailing 41 three days earlier against St Peter’s.

With Jamal Todd and Caleb Landon scoring freely Grammar opened up a 16 points lead and were still well placed at half-time with a 44-32 advantage.

That lead evaporated in the third as St Kent’s piled on 25 points – Kaea Rangihaeata scored 6 but it was Evans with 17 in the frame that inflicted most of the damage.

Ahead 57-55 with 10 minutes to play Toby Caldwell, Landon and Todd did their best to wrestle back the initiative for AGS.  However, in a tight final period, St Kent’s held firm with George Turner and Merrick Rillstone making some key plays. 

St Kent’s will travel to Westlake on Friday knowing a win will keep them in second spot on the Premier ladder.

St Kentigern 79 – Evans 34, Turner 13, Rillstone 11, C Mattison 10, K Rangihaeata 9

AGS 76 – Todd 23, Landon 21, Caldwell 16, W Shortt 9

Rosmini College, with 27 points from Tom Beattie, some high jinx from Matt Drury and first Premier League field goals from Julius Halaifonua saw off Liston College 95-59.

Liston were well served by the guard duo of Rasheed Ieremia (25 points) and Landon Smith (10 points).

Rosmini 95 – Beattie 27, Drury 14, Z Anderson 12, P Maxwell-Topia 11, K Murphy 9

Liston 59 – Ieremia 25, Smith 10, D Lao 8, T Chataira 8

In one of the highest individual scoring efforts in recent times St Peter’s College guard Jack Donnelly scored 51 points in a 97-89 loss to Mt Albert Grammar.

A balanced scoring effort led by Aki Luamanuvae-Sua and Morgan Aiono had MAGS ahead 58-46 at half-time. However Donnelly was relentless, his 18 third quarter points narrowed the deficit to 74-68 at the three-quarter mark.

It was end-to-end in the fourth but 6 points each from Will Leger and Phoenix Sorensen got MAGS home.

St Peter’s face Liston in the relegation game on Friday – having won the round 7 clash 102-64 they do have that +38 points differential to fall back on should they lose.

MAGS 97 – Morgan Aiono 22, A Luamanuvae-Sua 17, H Coker-Grey 16, W Leger 12, P Sorensen 11 D Matakatea 9

St Peter’s 89 – Donnelly 51, A Manio 10, S Errey 9, T Cox 6

Boys Premier League Standings with one regular season game remaining.

12-1 Rangitoto

10-3 St Kentigern 

9-4 Westlake, AGS

7-6 Rosmini

4-9 MAGS

1-12 St Peter’s

0-13 Liston

In Boy’s Secondary Schools Senior A League results Sacred Heart gained a valuable 59-45 home win against Aorere College. 

Northcote were convincing 108-61 winners against Massey High – Dontaye Sowman-Faaee and Aaron Sievert amassing 61 points between them.

The results mean Sacred Heart are in a two-way tussle with Northcote for the regular season runners-up spot.

At the other end of the table Macleans College moved out of the bottom two with a narrow 78-72 home win against Long Bay College.

Northcote 108 – D Sowman-Faaee 34 A Sievert 27, S Bronkhorst-Nalder 15, T Cook 8

Massey 61 – C Taulapiu 14, J Anderson 13, G Ryan 9, S Viliamu 8

Sacred Heart 59 – L Suasua 16, A Davies 15, M Ma’asi 6, J Tengblad 6, M Fautuaalii 6

Aorere 45 – F Ngata 11, D Danielson 11, F Gordon 8

Mt Roskill 79 Avondale 72

Macleans 78 Long Bay 72

Senior A Boy’s Standings 

11-1 Mt Roskill, 

8-3 Sacred Heart, Northcote

8-4 Aorere

4-8 Avondale

3-9 Macleans

2-10 Massey, Long Bay

In the Girl’s Secondary Schools Senior A League the only upset was Avondale College recording a 54-52 away win at Mt Roskill with Maraea Whiu (25 points) and Shiloh Caffery (17 points) doing most of the damage for Avondale.

Mt Roskill 52 – I Chanchui 16, M Sauaga 15, T Jallow 9, P Chanchui 6

Avondale 54 – Whiu 25, Caffery 17, M Lemisio 5

Northcote 74 – B Hadley 24, L May 21, L Shepherd 16, N Gear 12

AGGS 46 – M Kohunui 19, L Patuwairua 14, F Traill 5

St Kentigern 91 – A Tuumaialu 19, M Pavlenko 15, M Bennett 14, E Halliday 10, S Tapling 8, M Sanele 8

Pukekohe 18 – S Conroy 9, M Williams 5

Pakuranga 52 – J Koteka 26, N Obasuyi 6

One Tree Hill 78 – S Cook 35, A Vahai 15, Harriet 6, J Upo 6

Senior A Girl’s  Standings

11-1 St Kentigern, One Tree Hill

7-5 Mt Roskill, Northcote

4-8 Avondale

3-9 Pukekohe, AGGS 

2-10 Pakuranga

The Auckland Secondary Schools Girl’s Premier League regular season title looks as if it will be decided in the final round when Westlake will entertain Baradene College after both teams secured wins on Friday.

Mackenzie Chatfield (17 points) top scored as Westlake cruised to the win at Mt Albert Grammar, dominating proceedings throughout to record an 87-40 victory. 

MAGS 40 – D Tait 13, T Cocker-Lemalie 8
Westlake 87 – M Chatfield 17, I Pugh 13, M Boucher 12, S Moors 8

Baradene had a more challenging fixture but eventually proved too good for Epsom Girls Grammar winning 77-62.

Baradene were paced by a career high 31 points from forward Ritorya Tamilo and an equally important 25 points from Deyna Topia.

The pair scored all of Baradene’s first 22 points as they forged a 32-25 half-time lead.

Epsom responded well in the third courtesy of Flo Dallow and Sarah Joy Aruwa but facing a 51-42 three-quarter time deficit they were unable to exert further pressure on the home defence.

Baradene 77– Ritorya Tamilo 31, Deyna Topia 25, Faleafa 11, Cavanagh-Briggs 8

Epsom 62 – Dallow 23, Aruwa 16, Fowler 8, Forbes 7 

Outscored 23-9 in the opening quarter Massey High more than held their own in the remaining 30 minutes but that initial deficit was too great to overcome against St Mary’s.

Allyah Leusogi-Ape scored a game high 26 points but a more balanced St Mary’s scoring unit led by Kodee Sefo’s 17 points. 

St Mary’s 65 – K Sefo 17, K Leslie 13, F Ualika 12, A Moore 12

Massey 57 – Leusogi-Ape 26, M Taingahue 17, Z Tilby-Woods 7, T Waikik 6

A decisive third quarter carried Rangitoto to a 68-47 home win against Carmel College.

Leading by six points at half-time (33-27), Rangitoto dominated the third period. 10 points from Aroha Riley, on her way to a team high 27, took the hosts out to an unassailable 54-35 advantage.

Carmel guard Jemma Cammell, with 28 points, was outstanding in a losing cause.

Rangitoto 68 – Riley 27, Tawhiao 11, Blythe 9, Devonshire 8

Carmel 47 – Cammell 28, Linstrom 8

Girls Premier League Standings 

12-0 Westlake

11-1 Baradene

8-4 St Mary’s 

6-6 Epsom

4-8 MAGS, Rangitoto 

2-10 Massey

1-11 Carmel

St Peter’s College looked as if they would cause a major upset when, coming from behind, Jack Donnelly tied proceedings at 82 points apiece with under two minutes to play against St Kentigern.

Donnelly (23 points) and Andrei Manio scored again for St Peter’s but Merrick Rillstone made a crucial bucket and Kazlo Evans held his nerve at the free throw line – St Kent’s escaping with a narrow 92-88 win.

Evans, on his way to a game winning 41 points, made six free throws down the stretch as Russo-Nance less St Kent’s breathed a collective sigh of relief.

St Peter’s 88 – Jack Donnelly 23, Errey 22, David 14, Manio 12

St Kentigern 92 – Evans 41, Rillstone 17, Turner 14, Groves 7

Rangitoto College all but wrapped up the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier League regular season title with a comfortable 97-77 home win against Rosmini College.

Rosmini’s defeat also confirms Westlake, Auckland Grammar and St Kentigern as the other semi-finalists in the upcoming Premier League play-offs.

An 8-0 opening burst from Rangitoto set the tone in a game where the hosts held a comfortable margin throughout.

Ethan Skelton (22 points) and Zach Riley (30 points) were the star turns as Rangi recorded win number 11.

Rosmini trailed 19-11 at quarter time but were undone by a Riley masterclass in the second.

The Sal’s NBL Young Player of the Year knocked down four triples on his way to 17 second quarter points. With Zoran Sladoja landing a corner three on the stroke of half-time Rangi were well placed at 55-30.

Tom Beattie and Matt Drury led the Rosmini resistance in the second half although a serious assault on the Rangi advantage never looked likely.

Rangitoto 97 – Riley 30, Skelton 22, Payne 11, Priest 10, Sladoja 10

Rosmini 77 – Beattie 26, Murphy 13, Drury 10, Anderson 9

A second quarter onslaught by Westlake Boys set up a decisive 94-70 victory at Mt Albert Grammar School, the visitors winning the period 30-15 after edging the first 20-18.

Boston Caldwell and Christian Martin were the chief destroyers for Lake. Caldwell scored 12 of his 27 points (5/9 3PG) in the second, with Martin making 15 of his 26 in the third.

MAGS made a bright start through Morgan Aiono and Aki Luamanuvae-Sua but struggled for parity thereafter.

Westlake travel to Rangitoto College on Monday hoping to avenge a narrow 98-92 loss suffered earlier in the season.

MAGS 70 – Luamanuvae-Sua 15, Coker-Grey 12, Aiono 11, Matakatea 11, Sorensen 8

Westlake 94 – Caldwell 27, Martin 26, Zahran 16, Chang 7, Puriri-Kaitapu

Kelvin Menjah and Rasheed Ieremia were both in double figures but Liston College were overpowered 120-51 by Auckland Grammar School.

In a straight forward victory all the Grammar players scored 6 points or more with Caleb Landon (29 points) and Luka Vea (21 points) leading the charge.

Liston 51– 10, Lao 8, O’Grady 7, Smith 7

AGS 120 – Landon 29, Vea 21, Faulds 17, Caldwell 13, Petzer 11

Boys Premier League Standings with 2 regular season games remaining.

11-1 Rangitoto

9-3 Westlake, AGS, St Kentigern

6-6 Rosmini

3-9 MAGS

1-11 St Peter’s

0-12 Liston

Both the Mt Roskill Girls and Boys teams secured important victories on Friday.

In Round 11 of the Auckland Secondary Schools Girl’s Senior A competition Mount Roskill Girls caused a surprise by beating previously unbeaten St Kentigern College 56-51

St Kent’s led 37-36 at three-quarter time but 7 points from Tikara Jallow, on her way to a game high 20 points, plus triples from Petra Chanchui and Melinda Sauaga tilted a tight game in favour of Mt Roskill.

Mt Roskill 56 – Jallow 20, Eden Ili 13, Indy Chanchui 10

St Kentigern 51 – Maia Bennett 11, Shar Tapling 10, Sophie Jones 7 Emma Halliday 6

Auckland Girls Grammar came away with both points after a 63-49 win at Pukekohe High School – 24 points from Leah Patuwairau the top score.

Pukekohe 57 – Abby Crane 12, Arizona Withers 14, Sylvie Conroy 8, Mo’unga Talakai 8

AGGS 53 – Leah Patuwairua 24, Grady Nikoia 15, Fuschia Traill 10, Mapuna Kohunui 8

Northcote College pushed One Tree Hill College all the way before eventually going down 76-65. One Tree Hill join St Kent’s at the top of the table While Northcote remain firmly in the Top-4 despite the loss.

Northcote 65 – Bri Hadley 22, Liz May 17, Lucy Shepherd 11, Jayd Graham 6

One Tree Hill 76 – Savannah Cook 31, Angelica Vahai 26, Jesse-Lee Upo 7, Jada Tairea 6

The Avondale College v Pakuranga scoresheet hadn’t been sent through at the time of publication.

Senior A Girl’s  Standings

10-1 One Tree Hill, St Kentigern

7-4 Mt Roskill

6-5 Northcote

3-8 Pukekohe, AGGS  

2-8 Pakuranga, Avondale

Boy’s Senior A Results

In the top of the table clash Mt Roskill Grammar took a giant step towards sealing the regular season title with a 64-53 win against nearest rivals Sacred Heart College.

After a tight first half it was a decisive third quarter that separated the teams with Sacred Heart outscored 26-11 in the period.

Race Greig and Kennedy Matenga, with a combined 36 points, secured the win for Roskill.

Mt Roskill 64 – Race Greig 19, Kennedy Matenga 17. John Gill 10, Ngawaka Rakete 5

Sacred Heart 53 – Adam Davies 16, Liston Suasua 9, Preston Tuaputa 8, Josh Tengblad 6, Cassius Reynolds 6 

On the back of 24 points from Slade Bronkhorst-Nalder and 21 from Aaron Sievert, with 7 made threes, Northcote comfortably defeated Macleans College 102-64. The win moves Northcote to equal second on the ladder alongside Sacred Heart.

Northcote 102 – Bronkhorst-Nalder 24, Sievert 21, Tom Bates 17, Tane Cook 11, Tayne Cook 11, Shayan Poorekhorsandi 8, Tzion Manoa 7 

Macleans 64 – Christiam Mutti 18, Benjosh Ananth 12, Justin Kempton 12, Levi Smyth 6

The results of the games between Avondale College and Long Bay College, plus the Aorere v Massey tie are unknown at this stage.

Senior A Boy’s Standings 

10-1 Mt Roskill, 

8-3 Sacred Heart, Northcote 

7-3 Aorere

4-6 Avondale

2-8 Massey

2-9 Macleans

1-9 Long Bay

Baradene College confirmed a semi-final berth in Round 11 of the Auckland Secondary Schools Girl’s Premier League on Friday with an 87-58 win at Rangitoto College.

A couple of baskets from Tamsin McAsey helped Rangitoto keep pace with the visitors in the first quarter.

The trio of Ritorya Tamilo, Lilly Parke and Harriet Burrell scored 6 points apiece in the second quarter as Baradene moved to a 48-29 half-time lead.

Aroha Riley and Kellie Tawhaio scored all of Rangitoto’s 17 points in the third quarter with all but one basket made from beyond the arc.

Baradene didn’t need to fire from three-point land – 10 points in the third from Tamilo extended the visitors lead to almost thirty and win number 10 was in the bag.

Rangitoto 58 – Riley 22, Tawhaio 18, Casey Devonshire 6, Nina Nguyen 6

Baradene 87 – Parke 21, Tamilo 20, Summer Faleafa 16, Poppy Cavanagh-Briggs 12, Harriett Burrell 8

Mt Albert Grammar put together a strong second half display to record a 79-51 road win at Carmel College.

It was 13 points each after the first period and still even at 22 apiece four minutes into the second.

Hannah Bellett gave Carmel the lead but it was extinguished just prior to the half-time break as captain Tiger-Lily Coker-Lemalie scored six points on the bounce to take MAGS to a 36-32 half-time lead.

Katie Linstrom and Jemma Cammell scored on the resumption before MAGS went on to dominate the remainder of the third. Waimanu Clarken scored some eye catching baskets, Zara Pitovao and Danae Tait pitched in with a couple of buckets apiece, and suddenly MAGS were 59-44 to the good.

Ruby Railton gave the home fans something to cheer in the fourth but Clarken worked her way to a game high 25 points to help seal the win.

Carmel  51 – Cammell 20, Railton 11, Linstrom 7, Imogen O’Rourke 5 

MAGS 79 – Clarken 25, Taya Lewis 14, Coker-Lemalie 14, Tait 12, Jersey Nukunuku 7

Four days earlier Epsom Girls had recorded an 11-point win but on Friday Massey High turned the tables to record a 99-94 away victory in a remarkably high scoring game.

Two players stood out as they amassed a collective 94 points!

Flo Dallow scored 45 points in a losing cause while Allyah Leusogi-Ape amassed 49 points for Massey. 

If spectators thought the first half was high scoring – Massey led 45-34 – carnage followed.

Maya Taingahue scored 14 points in the third period as Massey looked home and hosed with a 72-55 lead at three-quarter time.

The hosts mounted a massive rear-guard effort scoring 39 points in the final 10 minutes as Dallow, Sarah-Joy Aruwa, Maya Fowler and Draun Forbes piled in the points.

With 3:22 to play Epsom had almost erased the 17-point deficit trailing by just 4 points (88-84) and a massive comeback victory looked a possibility.

However Leusogi-Ape was proving almost unstoppable and with Erima Tuita making a couple of crucial scores Massey held on for an important win as they fight for Premier League survival.

Epsom will look to regroup in order to confirm a semi-final berth when the final three rounds of the regular season resume after the school holidays.

Epsom 94 – Dallow 45, Aruwa 25, Draun Forbes 15, Maya Fowler 6

Massey 99 – Leusogi-Ape 49, Maya Taingahue 24, Zhoey Tilby-Woods 12

Girls Premier League Standings

10-0 Westlake

10-1 Baradene

7-3 St Mary’s 

6-5 Epsom

4-7 MAGS 

3-8 Rangitoto

2-9 Massey

1-10 Carmel

The Westlake v St Mary’s fixture will be played after the July school holidays.

Rangitoto College returned to winning ways in Round 11 of the Auckland Secondary Schools Boy’s Premier League competition on Friday night. 

Zach Riley duplicated his recent outstanding NBL form with the Auckland Huskies as Rangitoto College put one hand on the Premier League regular season title with an 82-61 home win against St Kentigern College.

Riley finished with 26 points as Rangi erased the memories of last week’s loss at Auckland Grammar.

After a tight first half, that had the scores level (29-29) at the main break, Rangi broke the game open with a dominant third period.

Riley, Zeke Priest, Zoran Sladoja and Lucas Payne all converted from the land of plenty as Rangi scored plenty – thirty in fact to the visitors 16.

Rangitoto continued to pull away in the fourth despite a late scoring flourish from Kaea Rangihaeta.

Dontae Russo-Nance (24 points) top scored for Str Kent’s against his former school, with George Turner lending good support. However Rangi, with the trio of Riley, Payne and Priest in good form, were too good on the night.

The result means there is a three-way tie in second place on the league table with St Kent’s, Westlake and Auckland Grammar each having an 8-3 record with 3 rounds to play.

Rangitoto 82 – Riley 26, Payne 22, Priest 19, Zoran Sladoja 8

St Kentigern 61 – Russo-Nance 24, Turner 16, Kaea Rangihaeta 12

Rosmini College kept their top-four hopes alive with a solid 92-67 home win against Mt Albert Grammar School

However when Phoenix Sorensen converted a pair of free-throws early in the third quarter to give MAGS a 36-35 lead things were looking promising for the visitors.

Unfortunately for MAGS they found themselves outscored 30-10 in the remaining seven minutes of the third to trail 65-46 at the last break.

Tom Beattie was the chief destroyer, the Rozza guard scoring 18 of his game high 36 points in that third period and with Pita Maxwell-Topia and Jett Marshall joining in the scoring frenzy  the hosts were on a roll.

Victor Keil did his best to change the momentum with 6 quick points at the start of the fourth but triples from Lucas Schnuriger, Kane Murphy, Marshall and Beattie kept MAGS at bay.

Early on Morgan Aiono, Sorensen and Keil were causing Rosmini a few problems in a first half the home side edged 33-27.

Ben Skelton, Kuresa Tapula’aia and Keil combined to give MAGS the lead just after half-time but it was short lived as Beattie and Co bossed proceedings from then on. 

Rosmini 92 – Beattie 36, Maxwell-Topia 14, Marshall 12, Drury 11, Kane Murphy 9

MAGS 67 – Sorensen 14, Keil 14, Aiono 9, Aki Luamanuvae-Su’a 7

Westlake Boys rattled up 38 first quarter points to take control of the home tie with Liston College, eventually winning 124-49.

Eight different scorers contributed to those 38 points – 7 to Boston Caldwell who went on to score a massive 43 points.

Christian Martin helped himself to 8 points in the second spell as Westlake hit the 70 mark by the interval.

Taonaishe Chataira and Rasheed Tahiru each made double figures for Liston on a night when points were hard to come by for the visitors.

Westlake 124 – Caldwell 43, Martin 20, Hamza Zahran 15, Tawhiao Kaitapu 10, Rocco Chang 8, Hadi Alshami 8

Liston 49 – Taonaishe Chataira 15, Rasheed Tahiru 12, Deon Helu 7, Dominic O’Grady 6

In form Auckland Grammar School, with skipper Luka Vea posting 30 points, dominated St Peter’s from the outset to win 112-61.

Vea had 9 points in the opening 25-10 salvo and it was 54-23 by half-time as Josh  Muggleston, Caleb Landon and Cody Brown took over the scoring mantle.

Scott Errey, Jack Donnelly and Dorian Sula made valuable contributions as St Peter’s found scoring a touch easier after the break but the result was never in doubt after the captain’s opening knock.

St Peter’s 61 – Scott Errey 23, Jack Donnelly 16, Dorian Sula 9, Andrei Manio 6

AGS 113 – Vea 30, Muggleston 24, Landon 19, Brown 14, Toby Caldwell 9

Boys Premier League Standings 

10-1 Rangitoto

8-3 Westlake, AGS, St Kentigern

6-5 Rosmini

3-8 MAGS

1-10 St Peter’s

0-11 Liston