Due to the school closure caused by inclement weather, games tonight will be rescheduled. 
 

Elite Stars Elgin could wrap up the Blair Clarke Memorial Trophy if they can win Wednesday night against Ambrose Plumbing. 

The Stars (12-5) cruised to their fourth straight win, scoring a whopping 105 points in their 31-point win over Talbot Trail Monday. 

The Stars got 17 first half points from Brian Apfelbeck and another 14 from Rob Wakefield as they opened up a 51-32 lead after 20 minutes. 

That lead extended to 31 after three quarters as they forced turnovers and ran the break at will.

Wakeifeld finished with a team high 26 points, with Apfelbeck scoring 24 and Mike Morrison 20 for the winners. 
Ryan Plfanzer had 39 in a losing cause including 10 triples for the Physiotherapists (10-8). 

                                

                          

 

The only team capable of catching the Stars is Ambrose Plumbing who went through the motions to crush and undermanned Mackie's squad 108-53. 

All six players for the Plumbers (8-8) scored in double figures including a game high 47 points from Jimmy Hendricksen. The big man had no one to contest him in the paint and he scored 21 field goals in the paint. 

Blair Umeri had 14 points with Andrew Lynch and Merrick Mount adding 13 each with Mitch Jones scoring 11 and Tyler Annett 10. The Plumbers have to win out and hope the Stars lose two of their final games in order to win the regular season title. 

Oliver Taylor had 20 points (filling in as a spare) for Mackie's (4-13) who once again played without their top two picks in the draft. 

 

                             

 

 

The other contest was the only close one of the night with Home Hardware (9-9) holding on for a 63-59 win over Cole-Munro Foods (9-9). 

The Home Owners jumped out to a 41-33 lead in the opening half against a Trout squad which only had three of their own players, needing to pick up a couple spares. 

However, the Trout slowly worked their way back into the game as Oliver Taylor knocked down three triples in the second half. They closed to as little as four late in the game, but could't get any closer. 

Kamal Aizimi had 16 points, Juan Carranza and Ben Girden had 12 each for the winners. Taylor scored 26 and Jacob Dugas had 18 in a losing cause. 

 

                             

Mackie's is back in the win column, snapping a seven-game losing streak.

The OrangeAde's made a late game comeback, and held off a last-second winning shot attempt to beat Talbot Trail Physiotherapy (TTP) 63-61 Wednesday. 

Trailing by four in the final minute, Brent Lale knocked down a three-pointer to cut the defecit to 61-60. On the ensuing posession he picked off an inbounds pass and found Doug Teetzel who went to the line after a foul. Teetzel tied the game on the first free throw, and after missing the second, Ian Thomson grabbed the rebound and found Lale who was fouled.  He knocked down two to give the OrangeAde's the lead on a 6-0 run with 14 seconds to go. 

TTP had a couple of shot attempts to tie and win it, but they fell short giving Mackie's (4-11) a rare victory and a broke their league high losing skid. 

Tai Montfort had a great game to lead the OrangeAde's with 21 points, while Lale had 14 and Nic Roberts-Neef 13. 

Ryan Pflanzer lead a short-handed TTP squad (10-7) with 31 points and Aaron Baker had 20. 

 

                              

 

The middle contest was a thriller which came down to a couple of huge shots in the final 11 seconds. 

Juan Carranza hit a game-winning three-pointer with just 5.1 seconds to go to give Home Hardware (8-9) a 59-56 win over Ambrose Plumbing. 
The shot came just 5.8 seconds after the Plumbers nearly send the game to OT.  With just 13 seconds to go, trailing by three Andrew Lynch banged a corner triple to tie it, but Carranza's big shot was the difference. 

Carranza had 26 points and Kamal Aizimi 21 for the Home Owners, with Jimmy Hendricksen scoring 24 in a losing cause for the Plumbers (7-8). 

 

                           

 

For the second straight day, Elite Stars Elgin turned their contest into a laugher in the opening quarter. The Stars opened the scoring 17-0 against Cole-Munro Foods, holding the Trout scoreless for mokre than seven minutes to open the game. 
It was never in doubt from that moment as they ran away in a blowout 97-49. 

Leading 21-8, 46-25 and 75-36 after each quarter, the fourth was just a formality. 

Rob Wakefield had 30 points and Josh Vigars 24 for the Stars (11-5) who got double figures from three others including Brian Apfelbeck (15) and Karsten Groen and Nick Lawrence adding 10 each. 

Jack Girden had 18 for the Trout (9-8) who struggled from the field but remain one game over . 500

 

                           

 

As we near the final quarter of the regular season, the race for the Blair Clarke Memorial Trophy is heating up. 

Talbot Trail Physiotherapy (10-6) on the backs of Ryan Pflanzer's 28 points beat Ambrose Plumbing (7-7) 82-58 to pull into a temporary tie for top spot Monday night. Geremey Deschutter had 19 points with Aaron Baker and Bradley Young adding 13 as TTP took advantage of an undermanned Plumbers squad. Steve Barton had 26 pts in a losing cause as the Plumbers fall back to .500. 

 

 

 

 

Less than an hour later, Elite Stars Elgin (10-5) regained top spot in the league by a 1/2 game with the most lopsided score in recent memory. They pummeled Home Hardware (7-9) 94-43 in a game which was over just minutes in. The Stars took a 30-11 lead after one, then were up 48-25 at the half. All seven players scored at least nine points for the Stars who were topped by Rob Wakefield with 21 and Josh Vigars with 20. Mark Cummings had a dozen for the Home Owners in a losing cause. 

 

 

 

In the finale, Cole-Munro Foods kept their regular season title hopes alive with a 74-60 win over Mackie's. The Trout got 16 first half points from Jack Girden and 11 from Oliver Taylor before the break as they lead comfortably 38-25 at the half.  Mackie's fought back late in the third and cut the defecit to as little as seven, but couldn't get a key stop. Girden had 28 points and Taylor 19 for the winners (9-7). 

Ian Thomson had 17 points for the OrangeAde's (3-12) who have dropped seven in a row, and played once again without their top two draft choices.