24 July, 2023
Whilst Northcote College are sailing along with an unbeaten record at the top of the Auckland Secondary Schools Boy’s Senior A competition, the scrap for the other three top four spots is heating up with only Avondale College out of the running.
Dilworth School’s bid for one of those top four spots received a huge boost following their 79-74 win over Mt Roskill Grammar School.
15 first quarter points from George Hardie gave Dilworth a 23-19 lead and with Finlay Edwards chipping in with useful points the advantage was 38-31 at half-time.
Mitch Greenaway, on his way to a game high 26 points, had 14 points at the main break for Roskill.
The second half was extremely tight. Roskill won the third by a single point while Dilworth returned serve to win the fourth quarter by one – 8 points from Ikahui Mahe critical down the stretch.
Dilworth 79 – Hardie 24, Finlay Edwards 16, Mahe 14, Ezra Eagle 8, Soane Tavite 6
Mt Roskill 74 – M Greenaway 26, Ryan Aramoana 13, Haisem Osman 13, Josh Wadams 8
In the “Wrestle in the West” Liston College made no race of it against Kelston Boys High. On the back of 36 points from Dhon Lao and 25 points from Rasheed Ieremia Liston triumphed 110-59.
Liston set the tone early on with 28 opening quarter points – fifteen dropping the way of Lao.
Leading by 15 points at quarter time the margin ballooned to 37 points (60-23) by the main break as Lao and Giavanni Helu bossed proceedings.
Kelston produced a better showing in the third period as Rodman Fuaivaa and Real Wheaton found some scoring touch.
Ronnie Juan and Ieremia protected the Liston advantage – the win moving them to equal second on the league ladder.
Liston 110 – Lao 36, Ieremia 25, Helu 17, Ronnie Juan 14, Jeydin Ale 6, Tatenda Chataira 6
Kelston 59 – Fuaivaa 15, Wheaton 14, Alec Phillips 9, Sione Filimoehala 8, Exodus Tupai 6/16rebs
On the back of a stunning 46 points haul from Richard Campbell Manurewa High School outlasted Avondale College to win 91-77.
Avondale began the game in style opening up an 11-point advantage with Liam Takenaka-Wesley scoring 12 first quarter points.
Despite Tommi Lautaimi and Takenaka-Wesley continuing to trouble their defence Manurewa High did managed to claw a few points back to close the gap to 8 points at half-time (45-37).
Despite sitting out a large chunk of the third due to foul trouble Jarell Tuhega scored 8 points in the period as Manurewa rallied to tie proceedings at 56 points apiece.
From there Manurewa ran riot in the fourth quarter as they amassed 35 points – Richard Campbell with twenty of those and Gordon Campbell with eight.
Avondale 77 – Takenaka-Wesley 20, Deuel Lelaulu 12, Lautaimi 12, Akram Al Wakeel 9, Jaycob Holmes 8, AJ Tsukada 8
Manurewa 91 – R Campbell 46, Tuhega 14, Gordon Campbell 13, Joseph Helu 9
While all below them on the ladder are scrapping for semi-final berths Northcote College moved serenely to a tenth win on the bounce defeating Selwyn College 93-55.
Once again shooting guard Aaron Sievert did most of the damage amassing 39 points with 13 of those in the first quarter as Northcote opened up a 31-12 advantage.
Shunta Shinzaki (13 points) and Tane Cook (15 points) provided good support as ‘Cote rattled up 55 first half points.
Selwyn rallied in the third as James MacDonald, Archie Elliot and Jerry Hing scored a brace of baskets apiece but it wasn’t enough to trouble Aik Ho and his charges.
Northcote 93 – Sievert 39, Cook 15, Shinzaki 13, Tyler Aitchison 5, Rico MacPherson 5
Selwyn 55 – Elliot 12, Ashton Muraahi 10, Hing 6, Luca Vietri 6
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Boy’s Senior A Standings
10-0 Northcote
7-3 Mt Roskill, Liston
4-6 Kelston, Selwyn
4-5 Dilworth
3-7 Manurewa
0-9 Avondale
Unfortunately there is not a lot to report from the Senior A Girl’s competition as two of the three games had teams default.
Avondale College defaulted against Manurewa High School and Auckland Girls Grammar did the same against unbeaten Rangitoto College.
In the one game that was played Mt Roskill Grammar defeated One Tree Hill College 63-59 with Nelly Ioane scoring 20 points.
Ten of those points came in the opening quarter – one won 18-11 by Roskill.
The second quarter was split 18 points apiece by the two sides. Syriah Muipu, on her way to a game high 24 points had 6 points in the period and Melaia Tuisuva 7 points.
Emphasising the closeness of the game the third period was also tied – 15 points each. A triple from Havana Iaea preventing Roskill from losing the quarter.
OTH would go on to win the final stanza (15-12) meaning that slow start ended up being costly – one they couldn’t quite recover from.
OTH 59 – Muipu 24, Tuisuva 15, Harriate Heta 10
Mt Roskill 63 – N Ioane 20, Bileeana Koonwaiyoo 10, Bree Ioane 9, Annelliesse Folaumoetao 6
Carmel College had the bye.
Senior A Girls Standings
8-0 Rangitoto
7-2 Manurewa,
6-2 Carmel
5-5 Mt Roskill
3-5 AGGS
2-7 One Tree Hill
0-9 Avondale
*Massey High School have withdrawn from the competition
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