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from Brendon Egan of the Southland Times: The Auckland Pirates have illustrated why they are one of the favourites to win this year's National Basketball League title with an easy 106-87 victory over the Southland Sharks in Invercargill tonight. With New Zealand Breakers' championship winners Dillon Boucher and Alex Pledger rejoining the Pirates' ranks this week, they were expected to be far too classy for the Sharks and that is exactly what unfolded. Southland made a promising

The ZeroFees Southland Sharks have gone it two weeks in a row and been the giantkillers with an awesome come from behind win over the Wellington Saints at the Sharkodrome. Down 55-39 at halftime, the Sharks blitzed the Saints 26-14 in the third quarter and then won the final quarter 21-16 to win 86-85....but that makes it seem easy - it all hung on a three-point attempt from Dan 'The Man' Peck with 14 seconds to go.  Diagonally in line with

by Brendon Egan of the Southland Times The Southland Sharks have caused the boilover of the National Basketball League season, stunning the previously unbeaten Hawke's Bay Hawks 102-87 in Invercargill tonight. Hawke's Bay entered the game on a seven game winning streak, but met their match in the form of the Sharks, who shot a sizzling 52 per cent from the field. American point guard Kevin Braswell was superb for the Sharks, netting 36 points on

Another case of the third quarter blues as the ZeroFees Southland Sharks go down 74-85 to the Otago Nuggets at the Stadium Southland Velodrome.  The third quarter was a 20-8 spread for the Nuggets, which saw them through to the end.  The Sharks fought back well to reduce a 23  point deficit at the beginning of the final quarter, but it was to no avail, and the ILT Challenge Shield leaves Southland for the first time in two years.  Full

Get down to Stadium Southland and get your tickets early...meanwhile, here's the teaser from Brendon Egan of the Southland Times: Southland Sharks coach Richard Dickel has told the Otago Nuggets to bring it on if they want to employ a zone defence against his team at the velodrome tonight. When the southern neighbours clashed in Dunedin two weeks ago, the Nuggets stood in a zone all game long. In a zone defence, each player targets an

by Brendon Egan of the Southland Times: The Southland Sharks have breathed life into their National Basketball League campaign with a crucial 108-99 victory over the Harbour Heat in Auckland last night. With eight of their next nine games in Invercargill, Southland desperately needed to regain some confidence and get their season back on track and they were able to do just that against the Heat. American point guard and ex-Breaker Kevin Braswell had a huge game in front of many of

from Brendon Egan of the Southland Times: American point guard Kevin Braswell did all he could to lead the Southland Sharks to an upset National Basketball League victory over the Wellington Saints in the capital last night, but it proved in vain, in a 91-76 loss. After what he described as the worst performance of his career against Otago last Sunday, Braswell was superb for the Sharks last night, scoring a franchise record 33 points