HBSS Junior Doubles Tennis Championships

The Hawke’s Bay Secondary School Junior Doubles Tennis Championships took place on Monday 21st November and featured 46 players all vying to be Hawke’s Bay’s best tennis pair. The tournament was held at Havelock North High School and was a great indication of the tennis talent in our region.

In the Boys A Grade there were many strong contenders for the title with a lot of matches going to tie breaks. In the end the Central Hawke’s Bay College pair of Sam McConville and Mitchell Bray played some fantastic tennis to beat Havelock North High School in the semi final after being down 5 -1. They then beat the Napier Boys High School pair of Nic Meo and Robbie McIvor to win the final, in another hard fought victory. Central Hawke’s Bay College tennis coach James Fraser was delighted with the outcome that saw the boys hard work and talent rewarded.

The Girls A Grade was tightly contested with the Napier Girls High School pair of Harriet Roil and Emma Stevens eventually coming out on top. This pair beat Hastings Girls High School in the semi; and were too strong for Maia Leicester and Kate McLean of Havelock North High School in the final. This was a great result for the Napier Girls High School pair who dropped a match early in the day, but recovered to win the title.

In the Girls B Grade, Arna Wattie-Scott and Susy MacCallum dominated the final beating the Napier Girls High School pair of Rebecca Collier and Jessica Elliffe 6 – 0. This was a big win for the pair after narrowly beating their rival Havelock North High School pair of Bianca Buddo and Sara Baily in the semi final.

Junior Girls Cricket Tournament 2005

Four teams were entered in this year’s Junior Girls Cricket Tournament held at Havelock North High School on the 21st & 22nd November. Schools represented included Napier Girls High School, Central Hawkes Bay College, Havelock North High School and a Hawkes Bay U14 Representative Team. Some great cricket was played despite some cold weather conditions. The purpose of the tournament was to aid the development of girl’s cricket in the Hawkes Bay Region. Teams who performed well included the Hawkes Bay U14 Team and Havelock North High School. Final placing’s were as follows:
HBU14 1st
HNHS 2nd
NGHS 3rd
CHB College 4th

The Hawkes Bay U14 Representatives were using this tournament as a build up for their Central Zone Tournament to be held 27th – 30th November in Wairarapa.

HBSS Junior Touch Champions 2006!!

Hawke’s Bay’s top junior touch teams were found at Anderson Park last week at the finals of the five week competition. Over 20 Secondary Schools competed in the competition that reinforced the strong talent and skill in touch in our region.

In the Girls Grade Karamu High School were too strong going through the competition unbeaten to win the title. Karamu scrapped through a tough final beating Hastings Girls High School, 4 – 3, in the last minute of the game. Napier Girls High School beat Central Hawke’s Bay College to come in 3rd after winning this competition last year.

The Boys Grade also had an exciting final with St Johns College coming out on top. Hastings Boys High School were leading the final at half time, but a strong second half saw the talented St Johns College team win 4 – 3. Central Hawke’s Bay College were to strong for Te Aute College in the playoff for third and fourth winning 6 – 5.

The promising skill of these junior teams means the Senior Competition in 2006 will undoubtedly be tough. This competition will start in Term 1 next year and will also be the qualifying process for the regional qualifying tournament.


Final Placings:
Girls:
1st – Karamu HS/ 2nd – HGHS/ 3rd – NGHS/ 4th – CHBC/ 5th – HNHS/ 6th – Woodford Yr 10/ 7th – Wood Yr 9/ 8th – Iona Sky/ 9th – SHC/ 10th – Iona Blue/ 11th – Iona White

Boys:
1st – St Johns College/ 2nd – HBHS/ 3rd – CHBC/ 4th – Te Aute College/ 5th – HBHS B/ 6th – Te Aute College B/ 7th – Karamu HS/ 8th – CHBC B/ 9th – HNHS Yr 10/ 10th – HNHS Yr 9

Cory Hutchings Visits the Bay!

Former World Champions IronMan Cory Hutchings was in the Bay during November to speak at the HBSS Sports Awards and as part of the SPARC Sport Ambassador Programme. Cory shared his experiences of being a professional athlete with students from Hastings Boys High School and Napier Girls High Schools in two sessions. The programme is based on teaching athletes the values of goal setting, having dreams and understanding what it takes to be a world champion.

Look out next year as the Bay will hopefully have the likes of Steve Gurney, Gavin Larsen and Barbara Kendall here to promote and carry out the same programme.

2006 National MTB Series Race

Licence & Entry Forms (pdf) are now available to download from www.mtbnz.org.nz
Pre-entries are to be sent in by early/mid December (actual date has not yet been set).
DH#5 & XC#5 ~ UCI CatE2 ~ Fri 24-Sun 26, Feb 2006 ~ Hawkes Bay

Our event is shaping up to be a HUGE event, bigger than any mountain bike event ever seen in the Hawkes Bay before!!!Not only all of the top riders from Australia, but also top riders from South Africa (incl World Cup DH champion Greg Minaar), France (incl World DH Champion Fabien Barel), USA & some other countries outside of the Oceania catchment area have expressed high interest in attending the Oceania Champs in Rotorua (which is fast developing into a mini world champs) & therefore with the new UCI points system now starting from zero at the beginning of each year, plus the Commonwealth Games only a couple weeks later, we could very well see most of them attending our event as well !!! - & that includes our best ever kiwi XC rider Kashi Leuchs (from what I've been told)

Anyway, we desperately require a few marshalls, van drivers & assistants for the 3 days of racing to make this event happen.All marshalls, drivers & assistants will get a free lunch each day from the HBMTBC c/o Gala Catering & Java Joes Coffee!

Programme:
Friday 24 Feb: Downhill Rego & Practice 9am - 5pm
Saturday 25 Feb: Downhill Practice 8am -10am Downhill Racing 11am - 3pm
Sunday 26 Feb: Cross-Country racing (Expert 9.30am; Sport/Novice 12pm; Pro-elite 2pm)

Please contact Carl (06.877 1422-wk ~ 06.876 8570-hm ~ hawkesbaymtb@yahoo.co.nz ) if you can confirm your availability to help on any (or all) of these days.

2006 HBSS Surf Lifesaving Championships

A Twilight Event

When: Friday 24 February 2006 - 6pm

Where: Waimarama Beach

All events run in age and gender divisions except Taplin which will be and open age and gender event

Surf Race Beach Sprints Junior 14 years and under
Board Race Beach Flags Senior 15 years and over
Open Taplin Beach Relay

A requirement to enter water events (for safety) is that participants are verified as able to swim 400m (16 laps of 25m pool) in less than 9 minutes. Schools will be asked for registrations early in Term 1 2006.

Please contact Surf Life Saving Hawke’s Bay with any enquires.
p – 845 9333 e – slshb@sporthb.net.nz f – 845 3983

ECNISS Road Race Photos...
Senior Boys Winner D Wallis (NBH) 19:53 (Middle), 2nd R Woolley (HNH) 20:01 (Left) and 3rd S Smith (NBH) 21:01 (Right)

They're off!!! The start of the Junior Boys and Senior Girls Race.

East Coast Road Race
Hot temperatures, large entries and some top performances were features of the East Coast North Island secondary school road race championships held in Hastings on Wednesday 14th September.

Napier Boys' High School would be well pleased with their runners winning the individual titles in all three grades. Daniel Wallis continued his fine form this season by winning the senior title in 19:53 for the 6k course from the Hastings Christian School. Daniel won the East Coast cross country title in June and won the prize for fastest lap at the prestigious Round the Lake Relay in Wanganui just two days before his Hastings race. His only serious challenger on Wednesday was Havelock North's Ryan Woolley who put up a personal best 20m 1s in running second, eight seconds behind. Daniel and Ryan will team up this Saturday as their Napier Harriers team attempts to win the youth grade at Rotorua's Redwoods Forest Relay.
In Wednesday's senior race, Napier Boys' Steven Smith (21:01) was third, ahead of Aaron Kaijser (Havelock North), Ryan Smith (Napier Boys') and Glenn Barwick (Gisborne Boys') to give Napier the team title.

Michael Sullivan (Napier Boys') (13:42) out-stayed Lindisfarne's James Holden (13:54) to win the junior boys' 4k race. Taradale's Eric Speakman (14:08) was third and Karamu's Scott McDonald (14:12) fourth. Napier Boys' Cameron Poole-Smith (5th) and Bronson Meehan (6th) were next home to give the Napier junior boys the team title.
The year nine boys' 3k race went to Napier Boys' Jay Mason in 10m 16s from Havelock North's Neil Kotze who ran 10m 26s. This was a repeat of their one-two finish at the East Coast cross country. And at the national cross country in Wanganui in June, Jay finished fourth and Neil eighth, underlining the high standard of this pair. The group finishing behind Jay on Wednesday consisted of Neil, then Philip Ludwig (Gisborne Boys'), Brett Pulford (Hastings Boys') and Michal Muller (Havelock North), all breaking 10m 30s in an excellent race. Gareth Malan's eighth place gave Neil, Michal and Gareth the team title for Havelock North High. This trio, and Hamish Patrick (who was tenth on Wednesday) had won the year nine race at Virginia Lake two days before.
The girls' races featured a double by Taradale runners Ashley Aitken and Laura Nagel, both trained by Mick Cull. Ashley won the senior girls' 4k race in 15m 55s in an emphatic solo performance. She was always running comfortably, clear in the lead. Ashley was followed home by a group of four Havelock North High runners, Anouska van der Werff (16:14), Rachael Tolhopf (16:23), Leanne Harris (16:41) and Bianca Saathof (17:22) giving the Havelock North High girls the team title.
Laura Nagel won the year nine 3k race in 12:04 from Havelock North's Stacey Kennedy (12:22) reversing the result at the cross country in June. The much-improved Denise Tryon (Havelock North) was third. Victoria Tolhopf's seventh gave the Havelock North girls the team title.
In the absence of Hastings Girls' Laura Mohi and Dannevirke's Sheree McLean, the junior girls' 4k race was thrown more open. Laura's team-mate Katie Harris prevailed in an excellent race with just nine seconds covering the top four. Katie recorded 16:20 to win from Olivia Luxton (Havelock North) (16:25), Anieke Engels (Napier Girls') (16:26) and Catherine Brebner (Havelock North) (16:29). Courtney Denton-Giles (Gisborne Girls') was next from the Napier Girls' pair of Anna Paget and Lucy Cabot, giving Napier Girls' the team race. Fourteen colleges entered 153 runners at this year's road race.
Results
Year 9 Girls (3km):
L Nagel (THS) 12:04, 1; S Kennedy (HNH) 12:22, 2; D Tryon (HNH) 12:32, 3.
Junior Girls (4km):
K Harris (HGH) 16:20, 1; O Luxton (HNH) 16:25, 2; A Engels (NGH) 16:26, 3.
Senior Girls (4km):
A Aitken (THS) 15:55, 1; A van der Werff (HNH) 16:14, 2; R Tolhopf (HNH) 16:23, 3.
Year 9 Boys (3km):
J Mason (NBH) 10:16, 1; N Kotze (HNH) 10:26, 2; P Ludwig (GBH) 10:28, 3.
Junior Boys (4km):
M Sullivan (NBH) 13:42, 1; J Holden (LIN) 13:54, 2; E Speakman (THS) 14:08, 3.
Senior Boys (6km):
D Wallis (NBH) 19:53, 1; R Woolley (HNH) 20:01, 2; S Smith (NBH) 21:01, 3.

HBSS Junior High Performance Programme @ HBHS

Last week Hastings Boys High School junior students had the opportunity to learn what it would take to become the next Mahe Drysdale or Tana Umaga. As part of the Sport Hawke’s Bay elite athlete pathway, the Hawke’s Bay Junior High Performance Programme gives Year 9 and 10 students a snapshot of what it takes to be a professional, world class athlete. Talented local footballer Chris McIvor presented the session that covers goal setting, training methods, nutrition and sports psychology.

The aim behind this programme is to better educate our young athletes and to let them know that great things can be achieved through determination, hard work and passion. This junior programme is the first step of a pathway that also includes SPARC Sport Ambassador Visits and the Telecom HBSS High Performance Academy. With the fantastic results of Hawke’s Bay’s junior athletes such as Emma Twig and Westley Gough, Hawke’s Bay has been proven as a breeding ground for champions. Sport Hawke’s Bay hopes to continue this with this free programme that is available to all secondary schools.

Junior Basketball Champs Found!

The best junior basketball teams in Hawke’s Bay were found last night with the finals of the Hawke’s Bay Secondary School Junior Basketball Competition held at Centennial Hall, Napier. This year 21 boys teams and 11 girls teams took to the court in the revamped junior competition that saw teams from around the region competing against each other.

The boys final was an all St Johns affair with both their Junior A and Junior B teams qualifying for the final. However the Junior A side was too strong and they capped off an unbeaten season where they dominated each team they played. Under the guidance of teacher and coach Mr Leif Johansson the Junior A team have shown some great displays of basketball through the 10 weeks of competition.

The girls final was much closer as two talented teams came together for the first time. Woodford House who were undefeated in pool play took on Hastings Girls High School in a nail biting, epic of a final. Hastings Girls High School were too strong in the end and clinched a one point win with their excellent all round team play. This team’s achievement is a credit to the depth in basketball at the school, that teacher and coach Leanne Wilson has built up and established.

The Hawke’s Bay Secondary School Senior Basketball Competition Finals will take place on Friday at Centennial Hall and will see Napier Boys High School and Hastings Boys High School battle it out in the Boys Division 1 final for one last time this season. Also a rejuvenated Napier Girls High School team with take on the strong Taradale High School side in the Girls Division 1 final.