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Dec 10 2024
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The Week in Review: Kiwis in NCAA Division I – Shearer and Tait-Jones moving up the NZ all-time rankings

December 10

After her latest scoring exploits Emme Shearer is up to 7th on the all-time scoring list for New Zealand players in NCAA Division I Women’s hoops.

Shearer scored in double figures for the sixth successive game in compiling 19 points as Portland defeated Ivy League defending champions Princeton 74-55. Shearer was also one shy of her career best in steals as she snared six.

She then posted a career high 7 assists to go with 16 points as Portland won 83-67 against Texas at El Paso. That takes her career tally to 1,258 points passing Amiee Book (CSU Fullerton 2018-21, Fresno State 2021-23) who scored 1,249 points.

Lilly Parke landed 3 from 5 threes on her way to 15 points and 6 rebounds as Fairleigh Dickinson University held off Lafayette to win 69-62. After then mustering 11 points in a 62-54 win against Rider the 2024 Tall Ferns trialist has 399 career points at FDU.

In a game that had 10 ties and 15 lead changes Hawaii lost its Big West Conference opener 73-69 in overtime to Long Beach State. Ritorya Tamilo was a standout in the loss with 14 points, 9 rebounds and a new career mark of 6 blocks.

Helen Matthews joint top scored for Wofford with 13 points in a 71-63 win against Appalachian State

Maia Jones made a pair of threes in the final 60 seconds as St Mary’s staged a late recovery against San Jose State before going down 51-46. The sophomore guard finished with 12 points to go with 5 rebounds and a couple of steals.

Dani Bayes chipped in with 11 points and tied her career high with 6 assists as Boise State defeated San Diego 76-69.

Central Arkansas won a low scoring encounter against Little Rock 55-42 with Leah Mafua posting 11 points and 5 rebounds, plus a couple of blocks, in the win.

Izzy Pugh scored 9 points as Milwaukee lost a see-sawing battle with Robert Morris 56-55.

Waiata Jennings scored a season high 8 points as Baylor won a one sided contest against Texas Southern 101-29.

Men

Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones became the 17th New Zealand man to score over 600 NCAA Division I points as he led UC San Diego to an 84-76 win at UC Santa Barbara to open Big West Conference play. Tait-Jones finished with a game high 22 points to go with 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

Tafara Gapare scored a dozen points as Maryland moved to 8-1 with a resounding 83-59 win against Ohio State. Those 12 points carried the Wellingtonian past 300 NCAA Division I career points.

In front of a sell-out crowd of 18,000 a couple of heavyweight teams went head to head and it was #5 Marquette that prevailed 88-74 against #11 Wisconsin (where Kirk Penney is an assistant coach). Ben Gold had 9 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and a block in the win.

Finn Lally was close to his first Division I double-double as he posted 12 points, 9 rebounds and 4 blocks in the William & Mary 109-55 victory against Virginia Lynchburg.

Taine Murray scored 8 points on 4 from 5 shooting as Virginia were burnt by Florida 87-69.

Nic Book filled his stats line with 6 points (3/4FG), 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks and a steal as South Carolina Upstate thumped Brevard 91-60.

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Dec 03 2024
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Week in Review – Kiwis in NCAA Division I

December 3

This week the review covers career high’s from Mackenzie Chatfield, Olivia Williams, Ritorya Tamilo and Emme Shearer and in men’s action a season best from Tafara Gapare.

We start with Shearer who is quickly making every post a winner right now.

The former Westlake Girls High and Harbour wing was in rare scoring form at the weekend as Portland went 3-0 at the Nuggets Classic in Reno. Named West Coast Conference Player of the Week, Shearer scored 21 against Southern Utah, 18 against Central Michigan followed by a career best 26 against Nevada. Those 26 points carried her to 1,223 career points, up to 9th on the all-time list of Kiwi Women’s NCAA Division I scorers edging past Tegan Graham (Colgate Uni 2016-20, BYU 2020-22) and Micaela Cocks (University of Oregon Ducks, 2006-10).

Mackenzie Chatfield made career highs in points (20) and assists (8) as Western Kentucky extended its winning start to the season to six games with a 92-62 win against Tennessee State.

Olivia Williams also had a career best as UC Irvine lost 65-62 at New Mexico. Williams knocked down her fourth triple of the game to tie proceedings at 62-62 only for the Lobos to reply in kind on the buzzer.

The junior guard was 7 from 14 overall and 4 from 6 from deep in making 20 points.

Ritorya Tamilo maintained her strong start to her collegiate career at Hawaii. The freshman centre had a season high 17 points (7/11FG) to go with 7 rebounds and 3 blocks in the 50-47 come from behind win against Fresno State.

Ella Brow scored a season high 14 points to accompany 4 rebounds and 5 assists as Southern Methodist proved too strong for Arkansas – Pine Bluff winning 82-58. Brow nailed 4 from 7 threes in 23 minutes of action.

Dani Bayes scored 10 points as Boise State edged past Illinois State 79-76.

Cantabrian Kavanah Lene finally saw minutes for Montana and posted a nice line of 6 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal on debut in the 107-56 win against Evergreen State.

Also posting her first collegiate points was Rebecca Moors who converted both of her scoring attempts for 5 points in Hawaii’s 70-49 loss to UCLA.

NCAA Division I Men

Tafara Gapare scored in double figures for the eighth time in his college career, but for the first time with Maryland. Gapare scored 19 points as Maryland beat Bucknell 91-67 and followed that with 9 points and 8 rebounds in an easy 96-58 win against Alcorn.

Ben Gold filled the stats line in just 22 minutes of action as Marquette easily accounted for Western Carolina 94-62 to make it eight wins on the bounce to open the season. Gold finished with 12 points, 4 boards, 4 assists a block and a steal.

With 81 appearances at Marquette Gold is up to 24th on the all-time list of Men’s NCAA Division I appearances by a Kiwi moving past Tony Rampton (Iowa State University, 1995-99).

Aniwaniwa Tait Jones rounded out a productive first five weeks of the season in scoring 10 points as UC San Diego won a one sided contest against La Verne 109-33. Tait Jones has scored 136 points in 8 games (all starts) at 17.0ppg, he is now just 8 points shy of 600 career points for UCSD.

In his second start of the season freshman Nic Book came up with a double of 8 points and 8 rebounds plus a couple of blocks and a steal despite Southern Carolina Upstate being upstaged by Coastal Carolina going down 73-51.

Mason Whittaker scored a couple of points – his first of the season – as American University defeated Notre Dame of Maryland 97-52.

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