July 31, 2023
In the Auckland Secondary Schools Girl’s Senior A competition Rangitoto College made it nine consecutive victories with an 85-61 win at Carmel College in the North Harbour derby.
In an even first half Rangi led 21-17 at quarter time helped by a couple of threes from Mela Andrews.
Andrews was up to 13 points by half-time with Eva Veale on 10. Leighton Esera scored 9 points for Carmel who were just five points adrift at the interval (37-32).
Ella Drake scored 6 points after the resumption but that was matched by Sienna Maurice as Rangi moved ahead 62-48 with ten minutes to play.
Zahara Tibbotts took her contribution into double figures but Rangi were able to stretch their advantage further in the final stanza as Maia Pirie and McAsey added to their tallies.
Carmel 61 – Drake 16, Zahara Tibbotts 13, Esera 11, Imogen O’Rourke 8, Annie Gaylard 8
Rangitoto 85 – Andrews 17, McAsey 17, Pirie 14, Veale 11, Madison Skelton 9, Maurice 8, Esther Roberts 7
Auckland Girls Grammar kept their top four hopes alive with a 66-42 home win against Avondale College.
The opening quarter went the way of Grammar 23-19 while in stark contrast Avondale won the second period 19-7. Avondale’s Hayley Abbott led all scorers at half-time with 13 points.
Ryn Nikoia scored the first 6 points after the interval and with Faith Hurt also scoring half a dozen the Grammar lead ballooned to 48-32 at three-quarter time.
From there it was plain sailing for the hosts.
AGGS 67 – F Hurt 20, R Nikoia 14, Harmony Hurt 10, Grady Nikoia 10, Zara Avaulii 6,
Avondale 42 – Abbott 14, Shiloh Caffery 13, Zion Mann 5
A strong first half performance laid the platform for Manurewa High School’s 83-61 home win against One Tree Hill College.
Shirley Tuilimu scored 10 points in the opening quarter as Manurewa built a 22-12 lead. With Beautiful Campbell doing the same in quarter two the Manurewa advantage was 47-26 at half-time.
One Tree Hill fought back strongly in the third quarter winning the period 20-13 with Harriate Heta and Kizyra Thompson in good scoring form.
Six points apiece in the fourth quarter from Alyssa Uluheua and Tuilimu closed out the Manurewa victory.
Manurewa 83 – Tuilimu 20, Campbell 19, Emily Tanira 15, Astrid Henricks 12, Wai Hetaraka-Brown 7
OTH 61 – Heta 18, Thompson 17, Syriah Muipu 14
Mt Roskill had the bye.
Senior A Girls Standings
9-0 Rangitoto
8-2 Manurewa,
6-3 Carmel
5-5 Mt Roskill
4-5 AGGS
2-8 One Tree Hill
0-10 Avondale
*Massey High School have withdrawn from the competition
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