Lacey Lowdown: The largest crowd of the season was on hand to witness a couple of the Auckland Premier Grade heavy hitters go head to head on Friday night. It was packed to the rafters in the Westlake Sports Centre as local favourite James Moors scored the first points of the game although Mitch Dance and Kruz Perrott-Hunt opened up a slim 6-2 lead for the visitors. Perrott-Hunt was forced to the bench with a second early foul but Marvin Williams-Dunn twice hit threes to open a 12-4 lead for the…
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MAGS ‘Robbed’ in Overtime
Lacey Lowdown: There were four good games in the third round of the Auckland Secondary Schools Boys Premier grade but none could match the finish at St Kentigern College. Mt Albert Grammar were Robb-ed of victory against St Kent’s as Kyle Robb scored the last five points of the game to clinch an exciting 68-66 overtime victory. With St Kent’s trailing 66-63 Robb banked a triple then was fouled after garnering a steal with 8 seconds left to play. He then showed a cool head by making the resulting free-throws…
Read MoreHeart beats size in Harbour First XV action
NZ Herald: Takapuna Grammar have made a 2-0 winning start to the North Harbour 1A competition, and certainly turned heads on Saturday with their 27-22 home win over Massey. It was all the more meritorious because they had to draw on some deep reserves of defensive commitment to repel the considerably bigger Massey team, which scored four tries to two. Man of the match, Takapuna Grammar No 10 Oscar Koller, contributed no less than 22 points from six goals and a try. Koller’s try came from a scrum going left…
Read MoreRunning Against The Odds
College Sport Media: “My body was tight. My hamstring tore slightly and I had to take five weeks off,” James Guthrie-Croft laments of his experience at the National Secondary Schools Athletics Championships in December. In the semi-finals of the 100m Guthrie-Croft ran a quicker time than eventual champion Nick Smith, but was forced to withdraw from the decider. “It would have been an interesting race. Nick ran a great final so who knows if I would have won, but it was disappointing to miss out.” Guthrie-Croft admits. The misfortune of…
Read MoreSouthern Cross Campus 1st XIII off to a winning start
Manukau Courier: An Auckland College Rugby League premiership is the prize Rod Ratu wants ticketed off his bucket list. It’s the one piece of silverware Ratu and his Southern Cross Campus 1st XIII need to make them complete. They already have a national secondary school title in the bag, a premiership they won when they beat Kelston Boys’ High School 16-12 in last year’s grand final at Pulman Park, Papakura. But it’s the Auckland championship, which has been dominated by St Paul’s College and of late, Kelston, which is proving so elusive. Read more…
Read MoreMacleans win late plus W’s for Westlake, Rangi & Rosmini
Lacey Lowdown: Auckland Grammar School visited Westlake Boys High in arguably the game of the round in Auckland Premier Grade basketball on Friday night as two of the top four sides from last season went head to head. Despite a second straight thirty points haul from Tom Higgins a more balanced home side scoring effort prevailed to record an 85-78 win in front of a good sized crowd at Westlake. Campbell Green opened the scoring for Grammar but point guard Josh Hidalgo scored a couple of baskets worthy of a…
Read MoreAuckland Underwater Hockey Players selected for World Champs
The 2017 4th CMAS World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships will be held in Hobart, Tasmania in July this year. Athletes from 10 countries will take part in four grades: U19 Men; U19 Women; U23 Men; U23 Women. Underwater Hockey New Zealand are sending four teams of 12 players. Players who commenced playing in the College Sport Auckland Underwater Hockey competition feature strongly in the NZ squad traveling to Hobart. 26 of the 48 member squad are from the Auckland region. U23 Men Clark Samuel – Glendowie College Danyon Kemp…
Read MoreNetball Profile: Theresa Ngata (Aorere College)
College Sport Media: The Beko Netball League is the development competition running alongside the ANZ Premiership. The league consists of 31 games run over 13 weekends, culminating in a Grand Final in Auckland on 18 June. A number of secondary school netballers are involved in one of the six teams and College Sport Media is profiling some of these players. Theresa Ngata plays for the Northern Comets, who meet the table topping Central team in Otaki, just north of Wellington, this coming Saturday afternoon in round seven. Read more…
Read MoreTwo Rosehill College rugby players score breakfast with former All Blacks
Manukau Courier: June 23 can’t come soon enough for Rosehill College rugby players Utumalama Atonio and Vulangi Olosoni. That’s the day Atonio, the girls’ 1st XV centre and Olosoni, the boys’ 1st XV No. 8, get to experience what each couldn’t conjure up in their wildest dreams: share a leadership breakfast with former All Blacks and later in the afternoon be at the All Blacks captain’s run at Eden Park. It will be the eve of the first All Black v British Lions test match, so each will also get…
Read MoreSacred Heart and St Cuthbert’s annex NZSS Water Polo titles
College Sport Media: Both the Boys and Girls NZSS Water Polo trophies are winging their way to Auckland this evening after national title wins this afternoon to Sacred Heart College and St Cuthbert’s College respectively. In contrasting finals, Sacred Heart overwhelmed Bay of Plenty’s Aquinas College 8-2 in the Boys final and St Cuthbert’s edged Auckland rivals Diocesan School for Girls 9-8 in the Girls decider that followed at Wellington’s Kilbirnie Pool. In winning the national titles, both schools have won triple silverware in recent weeks, the North Island, Auckland…
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