LACEY LOWDOWN

With one round of the Auckland Secondary Schools Girls Premier Grade regular season to play, the top four placing’s are still not decided and neither is the wooden spoon.

Massey High and Rangitoto College will both go into the final game with their semi-final hopes still alive and Westlake Girls and Mt Albert Grammar will enter the last fixture with the runners-up place still to play for.

The one certainty is that Auckland Girls Grammar School, after recording win number thirteen, are one victory away from a regular season clean sweep. They proved far too good for Carmel College winning a one-sided game 99-14.

Mele Latu and Eliana Tuaiti were the main architects of the AGGS win. Latu (34 points) demonstrated her all-round ability with six threes to compliment her inside game and Tuaiti constantly found teammates in open space for easy baskets as well as scoring 27 points herself.

They will face a more serious examination when they play MAGS on Friday whilst Carmel will have to re-group for a bottom of the table clash against St Kentigern.

AGGS 99 – M Latu 34, E Tuaiti 27, H Blakey 19, L Tuaiti 10

Carmel 14 – E Broomfield 4

Shauna Povey scored a game high 21 points on her return from New Zealand U18 international duty but it wasn’t enough to prevent Massey High School going down 83-61 at home to Westlake Girls.

Westlake, with five players in double figures, chalked up their tenth win of the season ahead of the North Shore derby with Rangitoto College next Friday.

Emme Shearer helped Westlake to an 18-10 opening lead and threes from Tabitha Leyson and Jess Moors increased the advantage to a significant 38-20 at half-time.

Triples from Laticia Jost and Ramona Fuiavaa increased the Massey scoring rate but Westlake were in no mood to relinquish the initiative leading 59-38 with a quarter to play.

Povey and Maya Taingahue shared 18 points in the last period but Rosie Dil and Piper Manolas bettered that tally as they accumulated a collective 20 points to steer Westlake to victory.

Massey 61 – S Povey 21, M Taingahue 13, Y Tevao 8

Westlake 83 – E Shearer 16, R Dil 15, T Leyson 14, J Moors 14, P Manolas 12

Another player that had been with the New Zealand team at the U17 World Cup in Belarus was Sharne Pupuke-Robati and she scored 19 points to compliment a season high 21 points from Moanekah Va’ai as Mt Albert Grammar School beat St Mary’s College 74-58.

Half a dozen first quarter points from Zaaliyah Kailahi-Fulu and Leata Te Nana-Williams helped St Mary’s edge the opening ten minutes 17-15 but MAGS dominated the second period to lead 40-26 at half-time.

A triple from Va’ai and multiple scores from Tessa Talo-Tomokino and Pupuke-Robati established that advantage.

Riana Matiseni, Daneka Manese and Kailahi-Fulu reduced the MAGS lead in the third period – St Mary’s trailing 53-46 at three-quarter time.

MAGS re-established control in the fourth, a pair of late threes from Va’ai sealing a tenth win of the season ahead of the match up with rivals Auckland Girls Grammar next Friday.

MAGS 74 – M Va’ai 21, S Pupuke-Robati 19, T Talo-Tomokino 13, M Kelly 12

St Mary’s 58 –18, S Te Nana-Williams 9, L Te Nana-Williams 8, R Matiseni 8

Rangitoto College were well served by the trio of Bella Elgar, Gracie Hasler-Ewins and Hannah Wentworth as they beat St Kentigern College 62-53 to keep their top four aspirations alive.

St Kentigern’s Tash Leishman was to the fore early on but Elgar scored 11 first quarter points as Rangitoto built a 21-13 lead.

Wentworth continued the Rangitoto scoring momentum in the second period as the hosts led 33-20 at half-time.

St Kent’s reduced the deficit in the third period with Khanye-Lii Munro-Nonoa and Leishman cutting the lead to ten points (46-36).

Misaki Chen scored a triple to lift St Kent’s comeback chances but Rangitoto closed out their sixth win of the season with Wentworth making a couple of telling threes late in the fourth quarter to seal the deal.

Rangitoto 62 – H Wentworth 17, I Elgar 17, G Hasler-Ewins 9, M Spooner 6

St Kentigern 53 – N Leishman 16, M Chen 11, K Munro-Nonoa 8, R Flay 7,

Premier Standings

13-0 AGGS

10-3 MAGS, Westlake

6-7 Massey, Rangitoto

3-9 St Mary’s

2-11 Carmel

1-11 St Kentigern

The penultimate full round of the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier Grade regular season competition on Friday night saw wins for the two top sides Rosmini College and Mt Albert Grammar School.

There was also a first win of the season for Avondale College, with their defeat of Westlake Boys opening the door for St Kentigern College to move into fourth place on the Premier ladder.

It was an emotional night at Avondale College with Doe Williams back on the home floor to make a presentation on Senior Night.

He and the largest crowd of the year witnessed a standout individual performance from Jaga Mete in a fine team performance as Avondale came from behind in the dying seconds to clinch their first win of the season against Westlake Boys.

Mete scored a Premier Grade season best 46 points but it was his final three that mattered. Tom Cowie had sunk a couple of pressure free throws to give Westlake a 99-98 lead with thirteen seconds left on the clock. Mete proceeded to make a spinning lay-up and convert the ensuing additional free throw after being fouled and with little time left on the clock Westlake were unable to get off a game tying shot.

The tone was set for a high scoring affair in the opening period when Westlake ran up 34 points to lead by eight – Dallas Clayton leading the way with nine points.

Westlake were held to less than half of that number in the second period and with Mete making 14 points in the quarter Avondale closed the gap t 49-45 at half-time.

Armand Donaldson scored nine points for the hosts in the third period but Paora Winitana, on his way to a season high 22 points, scored ten of those in the third to give Westlake a 73-68 lead at three-quarter time.

The tension mounted in the final period but the scoring pace didn’t slacken.

Dylan Wylkie made three of his six triples in the fourth quarter and with Cowie and Josh Kooiman also landing from deep it appeared as if Westlake would hang on for the win.

However Mete and Avondale were not to be denied.

Mete made 18 points in the final ten minutes, Tavhir Toyer chipped in with seven and Avondale, after a run of ten straight defeats, finally had a victory to cherish.

Avondale 101 – J Mete 46, T Toyer 21, A Donaldson 21, K Eteru 6

Westlake 99 – P Winitana 22, D Wylkie 18, T Cowie 17, J Kooiman 14

After Westlake’s loss the door was ajar for St Kentigern College to move into fourth place on the Premier table.

St Kent’s didn’t just push the door open they kicked it down surging to an emphatic 96-62 away win on the back of a game high 26 points from Shalom Broughton and a Premier career best 23 points from Levic Kerr.

Logan McIntosh and Harry Payne scored early points for Rangitoto but Broughton scored eleven points to carry St Kent’s to an 18-15 lead.

The visitors ran away with the second period (24-10) with Kerr and Broughton sharing sixteen points.

Ethan Mandeno led a Rangitoto fight-back after half-time but the home side still trailed 58-44 at three-quarter time.

A further revival was quickly extinguished by St Kents – Max Shorter, Alex McNaught, Zac Chan, Gabriel Nolan and Tom Chester all made threes in a 38 points fourth quarter scoring blitz to carry the visitors to a sixth win of the season and a semi-final berth in sight.

Rangitoto 62 – E Mandeno 16, H Payne 13, L McIntosh 11, O Paea 11

St Kentigern 96 – S Broughton 26, L Kerr 23, M Shorter 13. Z Chan 9

They were teammates at the U17 World Cup in Argentina last month but Anzac Rissetto and Mitchell Dance had a battle royal at Auckland Grammar. Neither gave an inch as they battled away for supremacy in the paint. Rissetto ended with 26 points and Dance 30 points – both had their periods of ascendancy in an eye catching encounter but away from that match up Rosmini put on a dominant display winning 117-77

Ilaisa Tela made some nice inside baskets for Grammar but Rosmini, despite finding some early foul trouble, led 26-16 at quarter time with Dance, Marvin Williams-Dunn and Taine Murray consistently finding ways to the basket.

An 8-2 Rosmini run was broken by Tela but when Joseph Hylton stretched the visitors lead to 40-22 Grammar Head Coach Lindsay Tait needed a timeout.

Rissetto made a couple of inside baskets after the resumption but Rozza responded with back to back threes from Williams-Dunn and Dance.

The half ended with Connor Ngan and Kainoa Lepou exchanging athletic drives – 57-35 to Rosmini.

Ngan and Daniel Boyd made threes early in the third frame and when Rissetto went coast-to coast it was Rosmini’s turn to call a timeout with their lead trimmed to 61-45.

Another Williams-Dunn triple and three straight baskets from Taine Murray carried Rosmini to an 84-61 lead at three-quarter time.

Hylton and Sean Murphy fuelled another strong Rosmini run early in the fourth – late points from Rissetto and Teacum McCarthy doing little to stop Rosmini moving to 12-1 and their hopes of a Minor Premiership still alive.

AGS 77 – A Rissetto 26, I Tela 16, C Ngan 13, D Boyd 6, T McCarthy 6

Rosmini 117 – M Dance 30, M Williams-Dunn 26, T Murray 23, S Murphy 13, J Hylton 12

Sataan Tawera and Ryan Laumatia were quickly into their work at St Peter’s College helping Mt Albert Grammar to a 20-13 lead.

There were lean pickings for St Peter’s in the second quarter –Phoenix Leupolu landed a triple but his team could only muster nine points in the period. Manu Dorcil landed a three for Mt Albert and with scoring contributions across the board led 36-22 at half-time.

Whititera Parata led a St Peter’s recovery in the third frame – he had 11 points in the quarter. However Dorcil, Tawera and Laumatia kept MAGS in the ascendancy – ahead 56-38 at the last break.

Leupolu knocked down three straight baskets for St Peter’s but MAGS had little trouble in marching to their eleventh straight win ahead of the clash with traditional rivals Auckland Grammar next Friday.

St Peter’s 51 – W Parata17, P Leupolu 15, I Franklin 9, B Schuster 6

MAGS 73 – S Tawera 19, R Laumatia 15, M Dorcil 14, N Wilson 8

Premier Standings

12-1 Mt Albert, Rosmini

8-5 Auckland Grammar

6-5 St Kentigern

5-7 Westlake

3-10 St Peter’s

2-10 Rangitoto

1-10 Avondale

On Monday August 6^th Westlake Boys will entertain St Kentigern College in a fixture that may well determine the fourth semi-final place and Avondale College, with three games to play in five days, will visit Rangitoto College.

Division One of the Thomson Trophy Playoffs are now set

A three-way tie for fourth spot eventuated between Christchurch Boys’ High, Rangiora High, and St. Andrew’s College, after each of the teams won on Tuesday night. After using the FIBA classification procedures, Christchurch Boys’ finished in fourth place, Rangiora fifth, and St. Andrew’s in sixth.

Cashmere High finished their unbeaten regular season to finish first, and a guaranteed spot in the semi-finals (and will hold onto the Dowson Cup the rest of the year). Shirley Boys’ finished third after the game of the week battle with CBHS.

Middleton Grange finished second and used a gigantic 32-5 run in the third quarter to eliminate Christ’s College from the playoffs. Gators had five double-figure scorers (Ah Li Fenika 15; Jarred Burnett 14; Trey Te Awa 11; Jedidiah Rea 11; Harry Roth 10) with Christ’s College having similar scoring outputs, but only three players above ten points (Will De Geest 14; Mason Whittaker 13; Aiden Palmer 13).

Division Two of the Thomson Trophy Competition had a barnburner eventuate between Ellesmere High School and Lincoln with both teams battling to try to force their way into the playoffs.

The top three are all but assured (St. Thomas and Ashburton are both 7-1; Papanui 6-2).

Ellesmere looked to be cruising, up 57-45 at halftime. A 22-2 run in Lincoln’s favour turned the tide before the visitors managed a tough fight-back – snatching the lead late in the fourth quarter. Back to back three-point buckets for Lincoln’s Kyle Koster (25 points) saw them tie, and then take the lead, as they went on to win 98-96. Cody Wareham top scored with a huge 43-point game for Lincoln, but was outdone individually by Ellesmere’s Sean Lemon (57 points), who had support from Matthew Riches (20 points).

In the Whelan Trophy Competition, Avonside, Ellesmere and Lincoln are all tied for first equal in Division II at 7-1, with St. Margaret’s just behind in fourth place at 6-2. The Avonside Lady Eagles easily won against Papanui on Tuesday after a slow start, but finished off the game on a 36-2 run to win by the convincing score of 95-34. Molly Cockburn led the way with 23 points, and had four other double-figure scorers join her in the win (Bell Digby 19; Megan Shannon 18; Kyla Lynch-Brown 11; Cynthia Patea 10). Paige McIlraith top scored with 13 for Papanui and Izzy Orr had 12.

Lincoln High built a 28-10 first quarter lead against St. Margaret’s and despite being tested numerous times, never relinquished it as they hung on to win 60-54. Samantha McCrone scored 15, while both Mandy Herman and Sophie Withell had 10 each for Lincoln. Alex Cooper knocked in 24 points for St. Margaret’s with 24.

On August 15 the NZ Broadcasting School will be live-streaming two fantastic games from Cowles Stadium (free entry as well). A top four Whelan Matchup between Rangi Ruru and Christchurch Girls’ is scheduled to tip off at 6:30pm, with a boys’ Quarter-final matchup between the Shirley Boys’ High Spartans and Christchurch Boys’ following (scheduled to tip at 8:00pm) – we’ll have more details on this next week along with all of the other matchups.

From James Lissaman.

Macca’s Week Nine Results

Thomson Division One:

St. Andrew’s 80-63 Hillmorton

Christchurch Boys’ 87-76 Shirley

Rangiora 73-65 Burnside

Middleton Grange 98-52 Christ’s

Cashmere 121-65 St. Bede’s

Thomson Division Two:

St. Thomas 87-76 Papanui

Cathedral 77-53 Riccarton

Lincoln 98-96 Ellesmere

Kaiapoi 88-80 Linwood

Ashburton 74-45 Hornby

Whelan Division One:

Rangiora 62-56 Ashburton

St. Andrew’s 72-68 Christchurch Girls’

Middleton 92-50 Cashmere

Whelan Division Two:

Hillmorton 50-42 Villa Maria

Ellesmere 67-45 Burnside

Lincoln 60-54 St. Margaret’s

Avonside 95-34 Papanui

Marian 89-50 Te Pā

Keen to see more live music at Premier games

Auckland Girls Grammar School wrapped up the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier Grade regular season title with two rounds to spare on Monday. In addition Westlake Girls moved into second spot on the ladder and Rangitoto College rejuvenated their chances of a top four place. St Mary’s College proved too good for Carmel College in the fourth game played in Round 12.

Auckland Girls Grammar are on track for an unbeaten regular season campaign after easing past St Kentigern College 81-34.

Misaki Chen connected with an early three for St Kentigern but half a dozen points from Elianna Tuaiti helped AGGS to an early 21-13 lead.

A combination of defensive pressure and consistent buckets from Heeni Blakey and Tyla Tuala took Grammar further ahead – another triple from Chen helped the hosts but they trailed 42-21 at half-time.

Elianna Tuaiti continued her good work and Mele Latu chipped in with half a dozen points as the lead for the defending champions blew out to 64-25 at three-quarter time.

Courtney Griffiths scored a pair of baskets for St Kent’s in the fourth quarter but Tuala took her tally to a season best 20 points as AGGS took their record to 12-0 with two games to play in the regular season.

St Kentigern 34 – M Chen 8, C Griffiths 6, N Leishman 6

AGGS 81 – E Tuaiti 24, T Tuala 20, H Blakey 15, M Latu 8

A season best 16 points from Gracie Hasler-Ewins and 14 points apiece from Bella Elgar and Hannah Wentworth carried Rangitoto to an important win at Massy High.

The two teams tied the opening period (15 points apiece) before Rangitoto enjoyed the better of the second period to lead 34-26 at half-time.

Hasler- Ewins and Laticia Jost were the leading scorers for each team at the break with nine points apiece.

Alyesha Schuster and Ramona Fuiavaa knocked down threes for Massey in the third frame but the visitors remained ahead (46-35) at the end of the third quarter.

Rangitoto further extended their advantage in the closing minutes – triples from Wentworth and Ella Moore plus seven points from Elgar doing the trick.

Rangitoto are now just one win behind Massey with two rounds to play in the fight for fourth spot and a semi-final berth.

Massey 53 – A Schuster 13, L Jost 9, R Fuiavaa 7, T Aratangi 7

Rangitoto 69 – G Hasler-Ewins 16, H Wentworth 14, I Elgar 14,

Westlake Girls High beat Mt Albert Grammar 78-60 in a dress rehearsal for their upcoming semi-final. The two are locked in second spot on the ladder with 9-3 records and are certain to meet again later in the month when a place in the Premier Final will be at stake.

Piper Manolas got Westlake off to a fast start as they opened up an 18-12 lead in the first ten minutes.

Jess Moors, Emme Shearer and Rosalie Dil each knocked down triples in the second period as Westlake moved to a 40-23 advantage at the interval.

Jada Manase and Monica Kelly led the MAGS response after half-time but Westlake were still in control at three-quarter time with a 60-41 lead.

Manase and Tessa Talo-Tomokino made threes but Moors and Mareta Davidson ensured minimum damage was done to the Lake lead in the closing stages.

Westlake 78 – J Moors 17, E Shearer 15, P Manolas 12, M Davidson 8

MAGS 60 – M Kelly 14, J Manase 13, T Talo-Tomokino 12, R Fiatau 9

St Mary’s entertained Carmel with both teams having registered two wins apiece before the game. It was the hosts, perhaps spurred on by the school band playing at each interlude that made it a third win with a 74-43 victory.

St Mary’s shaded the opening quarter 17-14 with Safena Te Nana-Williams and Emily Broomfield prominent.

The hosts pulled away to lead 47-20 at half-time as Zaaliyah Kailahi-Fulu and Riana Matiseni posted points.

Estelle Davidson and Georgia Green made scores for Carmel in the third and a better defensive effort put the brakes on the St Mary’s scoring.

However Saints pulled away again in the last quarter with Taumaia Malolo and S Te Nana-Williams scoring a brace of baskets each.

More live bands at Premier games please!

St Mary’s 74 – Z Kailahi-Fulu 15, R Matiseni 12, S Te Nana-Williams 12, T Malolo 9

Carmel 43 – E Broomfield 11, E Davidson 8, I MacGregor 7, K Linstrom 6

Premier Standings

12-0 AGGS

9-3 MAGS, Westlake

6-6 Massey

5-7 Rangitoto

3-8 St Mary’s

2-10 Carmel

1-10 St Kentigern

Another 40 points (41 points to be precise) from Auckland Grammar centre Anzac Rissetto, his second in four days, accounted for St Kentigern College in Round 12 of the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier competition.

With two rounds of the regular season to play the result locked Grammar into third place on the competition ladder with an 8-4 record.

In the other games played on Monday wins for Mt Albert Grammar and Rosmini College (both have 11-1 records) assured those teams of the top two places with the final standing unlikely to be decided until the final round of games on August 10^th – MAGS currently hold top spot on points differential.

It was a two-point thriller when Auckland Grammar School and St Kentigern College met earlier in the season and it was another ding-dong battle at St Kent’s second time around with Rissetto proving the difference maker as the visitors won 80-76.

The consistent Max Shorter and Zac Chan shared a dozen points as St Kent’s shaded the opening frame 22-21.

Levic Kerr kept the St Kent’s score ticking over in the second quarter but a three from Connor Ngan and the increasing influence of Rissetto and Ilaisa Tela gave Grammar a 46-36 half-time advantage.

St Kent’s trimmed that lead by four points in the third quarter as Shorter, Shalom Broughton and Elliot Watson brought the hosts back into contention trailing 67-61 at the third break.

Defence dominated the closing minutes – Rissetto and Ngan doing just enough to subdue the St Kent’s challenge in a tight finish.

St Kentigern Head Coach Aaron Young was philosophical after the game.

“It was an exciting game and our boys did a great job fighting back in the second half, in the end it came down to a couple of plays.

“Anzac was a beast and had a huge impact on the game especially when Shalom Broughton got into early foul trouble.”

AGS 80 – A Rissetto 41, I Tela 16, C Ngan 7, T McCarthy 6, D Boyd 6

St Kentigern 76 – M Shorter 31, L Kerr 14, S Broughton 13, E Watson

Mt Albert Grammar kept hold of their top spot on the Premier ladder after a tight 63-55 victory at Westlake Boys.

MAGS were indebted to Sataan Tawera (22 points) and Ryan Laumatia (16 points) as the pair combined for 17 points in the final quarter to seal the win.

Josh Kooiman (18 points) continued his good form – a pair of threes taking Westlake to a narrow 12-10 opening quarter lead.

The two teams split 24 points in the second quarter – points from Dallas Clayton handy for Westlake as they retained a two-point lead (24-22) at the break.

Kooiman, Dylan Wilkie and Jackson Port all scored from beyond the arc for Lake in the third but it was MAGS that edged ahead (41-39) through a triple from Tawera and valuable points from Theo Hurdley at the back end of the period.

It remained a dog-fight in the closing minutes but Tawera and Laumatia saw MAGS home for a tenth straight win.

Westlake 55 – J Kooiman 18, C Atkinson 9, D Wilkie 8, J Port 7

MAGS 63 – S Tawera 22, R Laumatia 16, M Dorcil 9, C Aiono 6

Boston Schuster opened the scoring for St Peter’s College and with Jacob Errey and Whitihera Parata causing Rosmini some problems under the boards it was only a Taine Murray jump shot for Rosmini that separated the two teams at quarter time (19-17).

From there it was all downhill for the hosts with transition buckets from Joseph Hylton and Sean Murphy plus inside baskets from Mitch Dance suddenly separating the two sides (44-25).

Schuster broke the Rosmini scoring monopoly but Murray replied with the first three of the game on the stroke of half time – Rosmini ahead 55-27

Sam Glover scored the opening basket of the second half but buckets from Jason Mittef and Reimar Cruz ignited the Rosmini bench.

Point guard Jack Donnelly sparked the St Peter’s offence with a couple of scores but the Rozza lead had ballooned out to 84-40 at three-quarter time.

A Thomas Morgan shooting display – he made five triples – was the highlight of the fourth quarter.

Errey was outstanding in a losing cause but his points and those of his teammates had become a scarce commodity as Rosmini eased to the win that cemented them a top two spot on the table.

St Peters 54 – J Errey 18, I Franklin 14. W Parata 6, B Schuster 6

Rosmini 118 – T Murray 24, T Morgan 17, M Dance 14, M Williams-Dunn 12, J Hylton 10

The Rangitoto College versus Avondale College fixture was postponed to August 6^th.

Premier Standings

11-1 Mt Albert, Rosmini

8-4 Auckland Grammar

5-6 Westlake

5-5 St Kentigern

3-9 St Peter’s

2-9 Rangitoto

0-10 Avondale

There were just two games played when the Auckland Secondary Schools Girls Premier competition resumed on Friday.

In a top four match up Mt Albert Grammar needed a fourth quarter fight back to overcome Massey High before winning 74-68.

The two teams were shorn of a Shauna and a Sharne with both on New Zealand international duty at the U17 World Cup in Belarus.

Mt Albert, without Sharne Pupuke-Robati, made the better start ending the first quarter 17-13 ahead thanks to a brace of baskets apiece from Jada Manase and Moanekah Va’ai.

Massey edged a little closer in a free flowing second period as Ramona Fuiavaa, Terina Aratangi and Alyesha Schuster kept the score ticking over. Tessa Talo-Tomokino and Raykesha Fiatau were doing the same for MAGS – they led 38-36 at the interval.

Massey appeared not to be missing Shauna Povey as they outscored their visitors 20-10 in the third frame. Aratangi knocked down three triples in the period and Laticia Jost added a fourth as the hosts carried a 56-48 lead into the three-quarter break.

Fuiavaa scored 8 points for Massey in the final period but their scoring dried up from other sources. In contrast MAGS found scoring a good deal easier – with Manase scoring ten points and Talo-Tomokino six – Massey were outscored 26-12 in the final ten minutes.

The loss leaves Massey two wins behind third placed Westlake but two clear of fifth placed Rangitoto, the only other team with a realistic chance of claiming a semi-final spot. MAGS remain second, one win ahead of Westlake.

Massey 68 – R Fuiavaa 24, T Aratangi 14, L Jost 11, A Schuster 11

MAGS 74 – J Manase 22, R Fiatau 18, T Talo-Tomokino 17, M Kelly 8

Also in action at the U17 World Cup is Tayla Dalton and her presence was sorely missed by Carmel College who were well beaten by close neighbours Westlake 105-28.

The writing was on the wall early on as Westlake charged to a 24-9 opening quarter lead extended to 41-11 at half-time.

Emily Broomfield and Georgia Green scored all the Carmel points in the third stanza but they trailed 71-20 at the end of the period.

Westlake, led by 26 points from Emme Shearer, also had Makenzee Boucher, Jess Moors, Rosie Dil and Simone Barnard in double figures as they cruised to an eighth win of the season with only one game dropped in their last nine outings.

Carmel 28 – E Broomfield 10, G Green 9

Westlake 105 – E Shearer 26, M Boucher 14, J Moors 12, R Dil 12, S Barnard 10, S Woolford 10

The Rangitoto College versus Auckland Girls Grammar fixture was played before the school holiday break with AGGS winning 88-52.

The St Kentigern College against St Mary’s game was postponed until a later date.

Premier Standings

11-0 AGGS

9-2 MAGS

8-3 Westlake

6-5 Massey

4-7 Rangitoto

2-8 St Mary’s

2-9 Carmel

1-9 St Kentigern