13 June
Mt Albert Grammar School and Rosmini College will head into their Auckland Secondary Schools Premier Grade Round 7 clash on Friday with unbeaten records following decisive wins on Monday night.
In a game where defences largely held sway Rosmini College made it six straight wins with a 69-48 victory at Westlake Boys High School.
A couple of scores from Malachi Book gave Westlake a brief early lead before Rosmini unfurled a 17-5 run to close the first quarter with a 22-11 advantage – 7 points in the period for Noah Johns.
Troy Wentworth provided some impetus off the bench but another 11-2 surge from the visitors, with the Wyllie brothers Josh and Chris doing most the damage, meant the Rosmini lead was close to twenty points.
Troy Supple landed a triple as the first half came to a close – the Westlake deficit 40-25.
Noah Rasmussen was the first scorer on the resumption however the response was immediate from Rosmini. The Wyllie’s made three point plays before Jameer Reed got into the scoring action to push the lead out beyond 20 points.
A Harper Wilson three plus a Wentworth And-1 play trimmed the deficit but Westlake still had a mountain to climb at three-quarter time trailing 56-38.
The final period was a defensive grind with just 23 points tallied in total – triples from Book, Batty and Chris Wyllie worthy efforts of note.
Westlake 48 – Wentworth 12, Book 11, Noah Rasmussen 9, Supple 7, Wilson 5
Rosmini 69 – Johns 13, C Wyllie 13, J Wyllie 13, Reed 10, Batty 10, Anton Seuseu 6
Mt Albert Grammar School were also comfortable winners defeating St Peter’s College 88-66.
Six points apiece from Harri Coker-Grey and Louis Uri propelled the hosts to a 22-11 first quarter lead.
An improved second quarter showing saw St Peter’s reduce the half-time deficit by two points (43-34) as Milan Tolich, Bryan Curtis-Marsters and Gus Dallow provided some much needed scoring punch.
Triples from Mario Nola and Dallow kept the visitors in the hunt although another 8 points from Coker-Grey enabled MAGS to enter the final frame with a 67-53 advantage.
MAGS, with six players scoring 8 points or more, and Dante Matakatea posting an imposing stats line of 16 points, 15 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 steals had little trouble closing out a sixth straight win ahead of that trip to Rosmini.
MAGS 88 – Coker-Grey 19, Matakatea 16, Uri 16, Kade Cartwright 12, Romani Keith-Peraua 9, Dante Tapula’aia 8
St Peter’s 66 – Tolich 22, Dallow 18, Curtis-Marsters 12, Nola 5
At St Kentigern College, Auckland Grammar grabbed an important 96-91 road win to leapfrog St Kent’s into third place on the ladder.
Eight first quarter points from Josh Howes propelled Grammar to an 19-16 lead but it was all square by half-time at 46 points apiece. Merrick Rillstone, who led all scorers at the break with 20 points, was ably assisted by George Turner with a dozen. For Grammar Howes and Ryan Hunt were in double figures.
The scoring pace continued in the third as the two teams split 52 points to leave the game tied at 71-all with ten minutes to play.
Rillstone took his tally into the 40’s for the second successive game with 12 points in the fourth but that effort was trumped by George Milburn, Howes and Hunt – the trio combining for all but two of Grammar’s twenty-five fourth quarter points.
St Kent’s suffering their second nail biting finish in consecutive rounds having been pipped 89-87 by MAGS last Friday.
St Kent’s 91 – Rillstone 41, Turner 16, Hunter Te Ratana 13, Charlie Hughes 7, Max Johnson 6
AGS 96 – Hunt 31, Howes 29, Milburn 17, Roman Ma’afu-Moerua 13
At Sacred Heart College, in a points-fest, Joel Brown proved to be the difference maker in the fourth quarter as Rangitoto claimed a 100-90 win.
Heart trailed by just two points at three-quarter time (69-67) but with Tyrell Cocker (13 points) fouling out Brown was able to take advantage. The Rangi forward, headed to a season best 28 points, scored 15 of them in the final period and with Arnold Nam nailing a couple of triples the visitors were able to claim a second win of the season.
After the first half finished with Rangi 42-39 ahead Sam Snowdon and Preston Tuaputa set about rectifying the situation for Heart. Snowdon iced three triples and Tuaputa made a brace of three-point plays in a hotly contested quarter.
Earlier Michael Ropotini, Jimmy Kim and Elyas Taher had helped Rangi stay ahead in the high paced, high scoring encounter.
Sacred Heart 90 – Snowdon 25, Tuaputa 24, Cocker 13, Matt Schuler 10, Tyler Wilson-Voyce 6
Rangitoto 100 – Brown 28, Nam 21, Ropotini 18, Kim 12, Taher 12
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Standings
6-0 MAGS, Rosmini
4-2 AGS
3-3 St Kentigern
2-4 Westlake, Rangitoto
1-5 Sacred Heart
0-6 St Peter’s
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