With their final  game of day three the Harbour A girls team were pitted against ACM1 in a show down of local rivals.

Tayla Dalton started the game in excellent fashion for Harbour as she opened the games scoring. With the full court pressure troubling the ACM guards, Dalton was able to get multiple steals and easy layups.

Isabella Elgar got the foul and the shot to drop as Harbour mounted huge pressure on ACM.

Parehuia Delamere made a three as the shot clock expired then next possession drew a foul and was headed to the line after ACM called a timeout to stop the bleeding.

The first quarter ended with Harbour dominating ACM 21-10.

Elgar started the second quarter well for Harbour drawing the charge. Some awesome passing led to buckets from Delamere and Dalton before ACM had to take another timeout as Harbour pushed ahead 26-12.

ACM came out of the timeout and was absolutely hammered by the full court Harbour defense first stepping out of bounds then a 8-second violation giving Harbour all the momentum.

Dalton finished the half with a steal and assist as Harbour extended their first quarter lead by one point to a 40-28 half time advantage.

The half time break gave ACM coach Angela Perrott-Hunt an extended period of time to sort out the mess her team was in and it worked as ACM made a strong run in the third bringing the game back.

Dalton got a messy bucket to fall and Jada Manase hit a jumper off a screen to keep the score ticketing over for the Harbour girls.

After a scrappy third quarter the A team found themselves only 7 points ahead, 58-51, heading into the final period with the winner heading to the Grand Final.

Mareta Davidson got the fourth off to a good start for Harbour with the opening bucket then Dalton once again stole the ball and found Jessica Moors for the layup.

ACM continued to play hard and got the lead down to 64-60 with seven minutes to play. Harbour coach Jody Cameron took a timeout to stop this ACM run and it worked with a score and stop in the resulting possessions.

Dalton saw Elgar running the lanes and threw a touchdown pass for her to catch. Elgar drew the foul and made one of two at the line. Fortunately for Harbour they rebounded the freethrow miss and got a putback two to go.

 Delamere then took the ball away from ACM and got the layup to go as Harbour began to extend the lead and take a hold of the game.

Eventually Elgar nailed the dagger as she absorbed the contact hitting a fastbreak layup and the foul which brought the bench to their feet.

Elgar calmly hit the freethrow and the Harbour A girls were into the final with a 89-72 win.

In the second semi-final the result was never in doubt. The championship favourite Waikato team dominated an outmatched Taranaki girls squad with the final score of 93-38 showing Waikato’s class.