Hawke s Bay Hawks down Sharks for second NBL win
8 May, 2021 09:27 AM
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Derone Raukawa shoots for two in his game-high tally of 28 points in the Taylor Hawke s Bay Hawks win over Southland Sharks in Pettigrew Green Arena on Saturday night. Photo / Warren Buckland
Derone Raukawa shoots for two in his game-high tally of 28 points in the Taylor Hawke s Bay Hawks win over Southland Sharks in Pettigrew Green Arena on Saturday night. Photo / Warren Buckland
Doug Laing is a senior reporter for Hawke s Bay Todaydoug.laing@nzme.co.nzHawkesBayToday
The Taylor Bay Hawks have made it two-from-two in the 2021 Sal s National Basketball League with an 85-73 win over the Southland Sharks.
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Southland Sharks import Josh Cunningham and Nelson Giants centre Anzac Risetto during the NBL season opener at the Trafalgar Centre.
The Southland Sharks have delivered a hard-fought 84-65 win against the Mike Pero Nelson Giants to start their 2021 Sal s National Basketball League campaign. In a physical encounter, the travelling SIT Zero Fees Sharks used a 43-28 second half to take a season-opening victory, helped largely by a 47 per cent shooting clip compared with the Giants frustrating 31 per cent effort. Played in front of a packed crowd at Nelson’sTrafalgar Centre, the going was tough early as both teams tried to find their feet, leading to lots of opportunities and highlights and very little separating the pair.
The six-foot eight guard is delighted to be home and couldn’t be happier to make Invercargill his new basketball home. “With all that’s going on, coming home made sense and for any young guy who has the goal of cracking the Australian NBL, playing for Bevo (Sharks coach Rob Beveridge) and the Sharks ticked all the boxes,” he said. After playing his high School basketball for Rangitoto College, Inger was signed to play for US Division 1 College Mount St. Mary’s before a late change in coaching staff saw the State-side opportunity close and a new one open up in Western Australia.
Toby Gillooly playing for New Zealand at the under-19 World Cup in Egypt in 2017.
The SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks continues to build its 2021 National Basketball League playing roster with Canterbury’s Toby Gillooly the latest to put pen to paper. The 22-year-old six foot four guard joins Dom Kelman-Poto and Alonzo Burton as confirmed signings for next year’s Sal’s NBL and is yet another player attracted south by the chance to develop his game under the tutelage of Sharks’ coach Rob Beveridge. “When I talked to Bevo (Beveridge) and heard how he wanted to play, the winning culture that he is known for and how he wanted to develop me as a person and as a player, it just ticked all the boxes,” Gillooly said.