{"id":693371,"date":"2026-05-25T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693371\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:12:12","slug":"nznbl-new-zealand-national-basketball-league-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/693371\/","title":{"rendered":"NZNBL: New Zealand National Basketball League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Website-Thumbnail-1-2.png\" class=\"img-responsive\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Posted on Monday, May 25th, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                        Game Recap: Saints vs Hawks<\/p>\n<p>Result: Mills Albert Wellington Saints (107) defeat Big Barrel Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks (79)<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Wellington Saints got off to a strong start behind the shooting of Elijah Pepper and the all-around playmaking of Carlin Davison, helping the Saints to a 24-12 lead at quarter time. Pepper finished with a game-high scoring performance, while Davison recorded a triple-double to lead the Saints on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawkes Bay Hawks would eventually cut the lead through the attacking play of Jackson Ball and Keanu Rasmussen, but Wellington responded with another big third-quarter run and sealed the 107-79 result on the back of Pepper\u2019s perimeter shooting and Davison\u2019s complete floor game.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLeading Players<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Saints: Carlin Davison (13p, 10r, 12a), Elijah Pepper (26p, 7r, 4a), Donte Ingram (12p, 7r, 1a)<\/p>\n<p>Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks: Jackson Ball (29p, 4r, 1a), Jeremy McLaughlin (14p, 9r, 5a), Chase Jeter (13p, 10r, 2a)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com\/u\/NZN\/2785440\/bs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sal\u2019s NBL Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MVP Votes:<\/p>\n<p>Carlin Davison (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Pepper (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Ball (Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks) &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>Akcech Aliir (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy McLaughlin (Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks) &#8211; 1<\/p>\n<p>Chase Jeter (Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks) &#8211; 1<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rapid League game:<\/p>\n<p>Result: Mills Albert Pathways Wellington Saints (47) defeat TotalEnergies Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks (40)<\/p>\n<p>The Wellington Saints held off the Hawke\u2019s Bay Hawks for a 47-40 Rapid League victory at TSB Arena. Hassan Munir and Aubrey Chunga made key plays late as the Saints controlled the fourth quarter defensively to seal the result. Jacob Murphy and Tommy Fergusson led the Hawks offensively in a tightly contested matchup that remained close throughout the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leading Players<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Saints: Aubrey Chunga (12p, 3r, 1a), Hassan Munir (11p, 4r, 4a), Arthur Pilcher (10p, 3r)<\/p>\n<p>Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks: Jacob Murphy (14p, 2r, 1a), Tommy Fergusson (10p, 2r, 1a), Ezrah Eagle (7p, 3a)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com\/u\/NZN\/2785567\/bs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rapid League Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rapid League MVP Votes:<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Chunga (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Munir (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Murphy (Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks) &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Pilcher (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Fergusson (Hawke&#8217;s Bay Hawks) &#8211; 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on Monday, May 25th, 2026 Game Recap: Saints vs Hawks Result: Mills Albert Wellington Saints (107) defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-693371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693371","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=693371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}