Aussie males go to 5-0 at Comm Games

The Australian Gangurrus outscored opponents 42-16 throughout two extra 3×3 video games on the Glasgow Commonwealth Games of their second day of motion to stay undefeated together with one other 16 factors from Sam McDaniel and 10 from Jonah Antonio.

The 4 gamers representing Australia in Glasgow 2026 have sturdy NBL hyperlinks with Jesse Wagstaff the video games document holder with the Perth Wildcats, McDaniel signed to the Brisbane Bullets nonetheless for NBL27, and Antonio having performed with the Cairns Taipans and Illawarra Hawks, and Jarred Bairstow on the Bullets, Wildcats and Tasmania JackJumpers.

They opened up the Commonwealth Games again on Friday beating New Zealand 21-15, Nigeria 21-15 and Scotland 21-14 earlier than backing up on Sunday with sturdy showings additionally to defeat Guyana 21-11 and Cayman Islands 21-5.

That has the Gangurrus by way of to the semi finals which is able to happen Wednesday in Scotland.

The first recreation for the Australian males’s workforce on Sunday night time noticed them tackle Guyana they usually did discover themselves down 6-3 early earlier than a few two-point bombs from Wagstaff had them again on high 8-6.

Antonio hit one other from the surface to stretch the result in 15-9 and ultimately he knocked down one other from downtown to safe the 21-11 win for Australia having outscored Guyana 18 factors to 5 after that early deficit.

Antonio high scored for the Gangurrus with eight factors with 4/10 two-point taking pictures whereas Wagstaff added seven factors and 6 rebounds, McDaniel 4 and Bairstow two to go together with 4 rebounds together with two offensive and two assists.

Next up for the boys’s Gangurrus was a conflict with Cayman Islands and the scores had been tied at 4-4 early earlier than Australia scored the subsequent eight factors together with pictures from the surface by McDaniel and Antonio to be up 12-4.

The Gangurrus then scored the final 9 factors with McDaniel sealing the win by getting them to 21 factors with a shot from past the arc to safe the 21-5 victory to enhance to the 5-0 document.

McDaniel had an enormous efficiency in opposition to Cayman Islands scoring 12 factors together with going 4/4 from the surface with Bairstow contributing 4 factors, Wagstaff three with 4 rebounds, and Antonio two.

The different Australian groups had been additionally in motion once more on Sunday night time together with the ladies who had two extra matches the place they saved their successful run going defeating Cayman Islands 21-3 and Uganda 21-9.

Emma Clarke didn’t play within the first recreation however Amy Atwell stepped for 11 factors within the win over Cayman Islands with Lara McSpadden including seven earlier than she additionally scored 11 in opposition to Uganda whereas Clarke did play and had three factors, 5 rebounds and two assists.

The males’s wheelchair workforce then scored their first win of the Commonwealth Games bouncing again from the loss to England by beating Kenya 21-5 with Tomas Klein scoring eight factors and Eithen Leard six whereas Tom O’Neill-Thorne had 4 factors, eight rebounds and 7 assists.

The girls’s wheelchair workforce additionally gained their first recreation of Glasgow 2026 after shedding first as much as England and beat South Africa 20-5. That included 10 factors, 12 rebounds and 5 assists from Georgia Munro-Cook.

Results

Australian males

Game 1: Australia 21 – New Zealand 15
‍Sam McDaniel: 8 factors, 6 rebounds, 2 key assists
Jonah Antonio: 8 factors, 1 rebound
Jesse Wagstaff: 4 factors, 2 rebounds
Jarred Bairstow: 1 level, 2 key assists

Game 2: Australia 21 – Nigeria 15
‍Jonah Antonio: 12 factors
Sam McDaniel: 4 factors, 5 rebounds, 1 key help
Jesse Wagstaff: 4 factors, 2 rebounds
Jarred Bairstow: 1 level, 4 rebounds

Game 3: Australia 21 – Scotland 14
‍Sam McDaniel: 10 factors, 4 rebounds, 2 key assists
Jonah Antonio: 4 factors, 4 rebounds
Jarred Bairstow: 4 factors, 2 rebounds, 1 key help
Jesse Wagstaff: 3 factors, 8 rebounds, 1 key help

Game 4: Australia 21 – Guyana 11
‍Jonah Antonio: 8 factors, 2 rebounds
Jesse Wagstaff: 7 factors, 6 rebounds, 2 key assists
Sam McDaniel: 4 factors, 2 drives
Jarred Bairstow: 2 factors, 4 rebounds, 2 key assists

Game 5: Australia 21 – Cayman Islands 5
‍Sam McDaniel: 12 factors, 1 rebound, 2 key assists, 1 drive
Jarred Bairstow: 4 factors
Jesse Wagstaff: 3 factors, 4 rebounds, 1 key help
Jonah Antonio: 2 factors

The schedule

All occasions AEST. All groups compete in Pool A.

Australia v New Zealand – Friday, July 24 – 7:00pm
Australia v Nigeria – Saturday, July 25 – 2:25am
Australia v Scotland – Saturday, July 25 – 5:40am
Australia v Guyana – Sunday, July 26 – 11:50pm
Australia v Cayman Islands – Monday, July 27 – 5:20am
Semi Final: Australia v TBC – Wednesday, July 29 – 9:00pm