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Middlesbrough College are the current leaders of the Tees College League, the only team to have completed all ten fixtures and with a record of seven wins and three losses have 24pts, 4pts clear of Darlington College, although Darlington have two games in hand. Still in the title race are Queen Elizabeth who sit in fourth place despite being unbeaten, having played only six games. QE Coach; Chris Lyle now faces a frantic 15 days to organise and fulfil as many remaining fixtures as possible to climb the table.

Middlesbrough College enjoyed recent wins over Redcar Rhinos and Macmillan Academy with 103-71 & 74-32 score lines respectively. Matt Rudzik has been a huge part of the new college side with the Polish star pulling down the vast majority of rebounds in every game. Dexter Munzara is another player who has come of age this season and has been averaging 17+pts per game in the latter stages of the season. Munzara's recent form has earned plaudits from around the league and the Stockton lad is one of the contenders for the Most Improved Player award.

Stockton Slammers sit in fifth place, which is where they will hope to finish the season, unless Prior Pumas can leap ahead with pts form their remaining games.

Queen Elizabeth maintained pressure on the league leaders with an 84-58 win at Darlington College. The result all but ended Darlington's hopes of lifting the first Tees College League title, although if they win their remaining two fixtures, they will be in a better position than Middlesbrough and have to hope QE fail to fulfil theirs. Kyle Smith of Darlington was the games leading scorer when the two Darlington titans met and he had good support from Mark Williams on 21, but after this the next highest scorer was 4pts whereas QE had Dan Halford, Richard Summerbell and Sam Morgan on 25, 21 & 17pts respectively and the three main scorers proved too much for a deflated Darlington.

English Martyrs gained their first win of the season with a 42-41 victory over Macmillan Academy. The game had been played earlier in the season and will provide a boost to the Hartlepool side, who are still in development.