If mock examinations are anything to go by it's safe to say Napier Boys' High School senior A team are on track to etch their name on the dux honours board of secondary schoolboys' basketball.
The Damion and Dwayne Davies-coached NBHS side beat Wellington champions Rongotai College 77-72 in the four-day, zone 3 premiership qualifying finals in Palmerston North yesterday.
It was yet another tick in the box for the Sky Blues' senior national secondary schoolboys' ambitions this year.
The Hawke's Bay champions beat Palmerston North Boys' High School 92-82 in the semifinals of the 20-team competition that offered the top six place getters a berth at the nationals to be staged at the same venue next month.
"We thought that if we could play our best we could compete against anyone," said co-coach Damion Davies, alluding to a Basketball New Zealand write up which pitted NBHS, PNBHS and Rongotai as the front runners for the title yesterday.