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STA Stingers junior boys maintain first place in basketball standings

February 14, 2026   ·   0 Comments

By Brian Lockhart

The St. Thomas Aquinas Stingers junior boys’ basketball team is having a hot season, currently in first place in the CSASC standings.

The Stingers have a 5-2 record and ten points. The team has averaged just over 58 points per game this season.

St. Thomas hosted the St. Theresa’s Catholic High School Thunder in the gym at STA on Thursday, May 5.

It was a very competitive game with St. Theresa’s taking a 30-28 lead at the halfway mark.

The third quarter saw the Stingers really buckle down and put out a huge effort.

At the end of the quarter, the Stingers were leading 50-33.

STA kept up the pressure for the remainder of the game and left the court with a 65-53 win.

“I think we’re doing well, our team is very good,” said Stingers’ player Kingston McCaffrey after the game. “We just have to play as a team – as a unit… that’s were our success is. We work together as a team and do a lot of practice and help each other grow as a team.”

Teammate Zikorah Mbonu said the team re-grouped after the first half to put on a strong effort going into the third quarter.

“In today’s game, I think it was pretty good but we could have played better,” Zikorah said after Thursday’s game. “In the first quarter they (St. Theres’s) had a lead and we had to pick things up. We kept going and got the lead, and I think we did pretty good. We seem to be a second-half kind of team, it’s the third quarter when we usually start picking things up. I like how we started scoring and talking to each other and talking on defence. We had a chat in the locker room after the first half – we had to pick it up and play a better defence.”

The chat at half-time worked, and the team came out strong and steady for the remainder of the game.

It was the Stingers’ final regular-season game, and they will now get ready for the playoffs.

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