{"id":44493,"date":"2025-08-05T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44493\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:49:09","slug":"tofilau-the-hero-as-psalms-win-gisborne-open-club-basketball-clash-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44493\/","title":{"rendered":"Tofilau the hero as Psalms win Gisborne open club basketball clash in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Psalms and Waengapu Stallions fought out a thriller in Gisborne Basketball Association’s men’s open grade … Psalms winning 40-38 in golden point overtime.<\/p>\n

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Tamati Tofilau, take a bow.<\/p>\n

Although almost ridden down by the Waengapu Stallions defence, guard Tofilau\u2019s shot – 23 seconds into the first contest of the Gisborne Basketball Association club season to go into golden point overtime – gave the Psalms a 40-38 win.<\/p>\n

\n That one-handed \u201cfloater\u201d launched four metres
\n from the hoop decided the late game at Ilminster Intermediate School to complete an action-packed Friday night in the GBA men\u2019s open grade.\n <\/p>\n

Psalms\u2019 Josefo Avau Muliaga and Wayne Bartram, whose Raiders OG crew beat the Hustlers 49-28, both put up 20 points in week 2 of the competition, but it was ETB Wh\u0101nau\u2019s Shae Abbott-Raggett who led all scorers with a 35 point-haul.<\/p>\n

Stallions\u2019 Mason Nepe again played strongly. He and teammate Henry-Troy Kepa bore their posse\u2019s entire offensive burden in the first period of a game Psalms led throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gisborne Herald 5 Aug, 2025 04:27 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[10960,64,63,726,38851,22409,10970,38848,38324,4717,16804,38849,38847,85,10965,38850,320,38846,8935],"class_list":["post-44493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-as","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-bow","tag-clash","tag-club","tag-gisborne","tag-hero","tag-in","tag-open","tag-overtime","tag-psalms","tag-sports","tag-take","tag-tamati","tag-the","tag-tofilau","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}