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Senior A Zone 3 Premierships Tournament Report

The Senior A Basketball team performed very creditably at these championships in New Plymouth.
 
Day one saw two good victories recorded against Opunake (78-52) and Horowhenua College (62-48).  All team members contributed in these two games.  On day two an excellent team effort – well led by Ravi Mani and Matt Wilson resulted in a 73-67 victory over Wellington College.  Unfortunately this level of performance was not repeated later in the day against Tawa College and we were defeated 94-71.  This resulted in a three-way tie in the pool and only two teams could progress to the quarter-finals.  Hastings Boys’ High School missed out on point’s differential which was a great disappointment for all concerned.
 
To their credit, the team bounced back strongly and defeated Scott’s College (54-32) and Wanganui High School (74-57), finishing 9th out of 18 teams and losing only one game all week.
 
At this stage all players will be back next year which augurs well for the future of Basketball at Hastings Boys’ High School.  Special mention must be made of the outstanding contribution from the two Year 10 students Geoffrey Heather-Apatu and Harlan Solomon.