apphires side that won bronze at the FIBA Under-17 Women’s World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\nJemyma Manyok blocked six shots. The Centre of Excellence blocked eight as a team. Attendance was 82.<\/p>\n
Central Coast came from 10 down with a quarter to play.<\/p>\n
The Crusaders trailed Manly Warringah 54-44 at the last change of the men’s semi-final on Sunday afternoon and won the quarter 29-17 to take it 73-71.<\/p>\n
They shot 32.3 per cent for the game and won anyway, because they went 23-from-28 from the free-throw line while Manly went 13-from-18.<\/p>\n
Dylan Tea scored 25 with nine from the line, Jamal Shoaib 15 on 4-from-6 from deep, and captain Luke Cassidy 11 points and seven assists. Garric Young had 10 rebounds and Matur Maker seven points, seven rebounds and three blocks.<\/p>\n
Quinn Slazinski top-scored for Manly with 16 on 5-from-21. Captain Stefan Valkovic added 14 and six offensive rebounds, and Isaiah Lee 12 points with nine assists.<\/p>\n
Manly out-rebounded them 50-45 and lost.<\/p>\n
Two hours earlier on the same floor, Manly’s women had won.<\/p>\n
The Sea Eagles beat the Newcastle Falcons 90-78, so the club took a win and a loss at Northern Beaches on the same afternoon.<\/p>\n
Jayda Jansen scored 25 on 8-from-14, Zoey Miller 22 with nine assists, Alex Delaney 15 on 4-from-6 from three, and Bree Delaney 14. Manly made 12 three-pointers to Newcastle’s five.<\/p>\n
Newcastle captain Nicole Munger had 24 points and six assists, and Mia Heide 22 points and 16 rebounds. W Draft pick Saffron Shiels did not dress.<\/p>\n
Sutherland put up a hundred.<\/p>\n
The Sharks beat the Maitland Mustangs 100-76 on Saturday night, leading 61-43 at half-time and never letting it close.<\/p>\n
Tyler Robertson scored 24 with seven assists and went 7-from-7 at the line, Adrian Cabrera 20 on 8-from-10, captain Lochlan Hutchison 13 with six assists, and Jason Spurgin 12.<\/p>\n
Luke Jamieson had the line of the round: six points, 16 rebounds, 10 of them offensive, and seven steals.<\/p>\n
Sutherland shot 52.2 per cent and made 22 of their 25 free throws. William Cranston-Lown top-scored for Maitland with 17.<\/p>\n
NBL1 EAST SEMI-FINALS<\/p>\n
\u200dWomen: BA Centre of Excellence 77 def. Albury-Wodonga Bandits 69 (Lytle 40; Crase 15)\u200dWomen: Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 90 def. Newcastle Falcons 78 (Jansen 25; Munger 24)\u200dMen: Sutherland Sharks 100 def. Maitland Mustangs 76 (Robertson 24; Cranston-Lown 17)\u200dMen: Central Coast Crusaders 73 def. Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 71 (Tea 25; Slazinski 16)<\/p>\n
All four NBL1 East preliminary finals, played on Saturday 8 August 2026. Winners advance to the Grand Final. In full: Norths Bears v Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and Bankstown Bruins v Centre of Excellence in the women\u2019s, Norths Bears v Central Coast Crusaders and Illawarra Hawks v Sutherland Sharks in the men\u2019s. The team listed first hosts. Norths Bears host a doubleheader at North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, women at 5:00 PM followed by the men at 7:00 PM. Every venue is in New South Wales, which is on AEST in August because daylight saving does not begin until 4 October, so these are venue-clock times and no conversion applies. Rows are in tip-off order and the headers are deliberately not sortable: the order a reader wants is the order the games are played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Lytle scored 40 of her team’s 69 points, and Central Coast came back from 10 down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-839820","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\/839820","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=839820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}