10 Minute Sports

PB for Oakley
Julian Oakley (Tauranga Ramblers) won the 3000 metres at the Waikato Bay of Plenty Open meeting at Tauranga Domain in a personal best 8 minutes 33.05 seconds.
Oakley took the lead from Corey Whiting ( Hamilton Hawks) who had trailed pacemaker Gareth Hyett for six of the 7-lap event.
Hyett maintained a perfect pace of 69/70 second laps to set up personal bests for the young runners.
Whiting second in 8 minutes 39.76 seconds. Tim Stewart (Kapiti) 8 minutes 58.88 seconds held out a fast finishing Michael Sutton (Tauranga Ramblers) 8 minutes 59.98 seconds for third. Anna-Lisa Uttley ( Tauranga Ramblers) recorded 10.06.79.
Mariah Ririnui (Tauranga Ramblers) won the women's 100 metres in 12.54 seconds following up with a 5.10 metre long jump victory.
Ryan Howe (Lake City) 10.98 seconds shaded Nicholas Corban and Phil Sims, both of Hamilton Hawks, in the feature 100m sprint.
Livvie Duggan (Tauranga Ramblers) had busy afternoon with throwing events while Joseph Reynolds jumped 1.83 metres in the high jump.
This week secondary school athletes contest the Waikato Bay of Plenty Secondary School Championships at Porritt Stadium on Saturday where many titles are expected to be won by Tauranga athletes, including Oakley and Reynolds.
Tsunami effects
Light afternoon sea breezes and strange tsunami tidal effects made for two days of challenging racing at the North Island windsurfing championships at the weekend.
"We almost didn't have an event with the civil defence warnings to stay away from the water for most of Saturday," said event organiser Stuart Pedersen. "Our scheduled start time was 1pm and we talked to the local Coastguard twice in the morning before deciding to go ahead. Tsunami effects in the harbour were expected to be insignificant - we were certainly safe but the effects were quite noticeable.
"Twice we saw the tide reverse in quite a dramatic and unpredictable way, which made it very tricky to sail in - especially with light winds meaning board speeds were not high."
Organiser also had to wait for the wind to fill in, especially on Sunday, but they managed to get in the five races needed to constitute a series.
With most of the senior men overseas in their build ups to the major regattas, numbers were down slightly and most excitement was in the RS:X 8.5 fleet of women and youth and the junior Techno fleet.
Light conditions mean it was a battle of pumping fitness and tactics - a chance for the sailors to show off their mental and physical toughness.
In the RS:X, Justina Sellars from Takapuna missed the first race but dominated after that, beaten once by Sven Pedersen from Tauranga, by less than a board length over a 30min race.
Pedersen's starts were not always good, but he sailed consistently well to win the series and take out the North Island windsurfing championships trophy.
In the Techno fleet, Takapuna's national champion Hamish Dunning-Beck was challenged by up and coming Tauranga boardsailor Alex Hart and they ended the regatta on equal points, with Dunning-Beck winning on a countback.
Pedersen Snr said the Bay of Plenty Sailing Academy's windsurfing programme had started to provide a definite base in the sport locally.
"The potential is huge for young sportspeople to go far in this sport. The under-17 Techno sailors have the added excitement of the chance to go to the world champs in San Francisco later in the year, and they have been offered two sets of free equipment to use there."
The North Island champs were the penultimate regatta in the inaugural Techno Kendall Cup series, with the series ending at the Supercity regatta at Torbay in April.
Dunning-Beck is currently leading the under-17 boys division, while Steph Corkery leads the under-17 girls.
Pirates win shield
Dawson Insurance Eastern Pirates are the new holders of the iTCo Challenge Shield after beating Tauranga Boys' College, while Mount Maunganui cruised to a 10-wicket win over East Bay United to retain the lead in the BOPCA Cup.
Captain James MacMillan made 55 but Eastern Pirates innings only lasted 37 overs before they were dismissed by Tauranga Boys' for a modest 140.
In reply Tauranga Boys' lost an early wicket but at 36/1 held the upper hand, but Barry Hogan, Harry Pandya and Mike Wickett ripped through their batting as they lost nine wickets for 85.
Cameron Neal carried his bat for 61 but it was Pirates that carried the Challenge Shield home.
In what was the upset of the round, bottom of the table Rotorua Boys' hit the winning runs from the fourth ball of the last over to get up over Greerton.
Although Boys' High didn't help their cause by bowling 22 wides the Greerton batsmen found runs hard to come by on a slowish wicket with Cody Fell and James Porter bowling economically. Opener Craig Budd batted patiently for 52 from 40 overs and Brett Hampton showed his class to be 71no when the innings came to a sudden conclusion in the 48th over.
Hampton had taken 20 runs off the eighth David Cheater over but he had the last say when he finished Greerton's innings with a hat-trick. In reply, James Porter batted with aggression in making 40, to give Boys' High a good start and Chanse Perham, Koha Newton and Jarrod Stanley all made 30. But it all came down to the last over and the last wicket before Boys' High could celebrate their win.
At the Te Puke Domain, Matt McLaughlin 44, Reece Uerata 31, and Dave Hunt 28 were the main contributors in iTCo Central's innings of 192.
It was a target that Te Puke would have been confident of achieving but Ben Watkinson 1/12 off 10 overs, Andrew Gibbs 1/13 off eight and left arm spinner Jason Trembath who bowled nine overs, three maidens and took 6/18 demolished their hopes.
Rotorua Indians did well to get to 202 when they batted first against Otumoetai Cadets but it was not enough and Cadets reached their target with six wickets in hand.
It was a stroll in the park for Mount Maunganui who dismissed East Bay United for 78 and with a half century from Mark Divehall they reached the objective in the 15th over.
Scoreboards:
Greerton 213 (B Hampton 71 no. C Budd 52, K McCarthy 21, D Cheater 5/48, including hat-trick, J Porter 2/27) lost to Rotorua Boys' High School 214/9 (J Porter 40, J Stanley 30, M Perham 30, K Newton 30, A Baylock 27no. B Hampton 2/46, J Bercial 2/42.)
East Bay United 78 (R Nillsen 28, D Hill 5/25, D Swan 4/12.) lost to Mount Maunganui 79/0 (M Divehall 51, P Drysdale 21.)
Eastern Pirates 140 (J MacMillan 55 S Davey 3/26, M Orchard 3/18, J Boyd 2/19) defeated Tauranga Boys' College 119 (C Neal 61no. J Dwight 21, B Hogan 3/23, M Wickett 2/21, H Pandya 3/14.)
Rotorua Indians 202 (C Chhagan 42 P Dhanjee 39, U Morarji 28, C Wilson 4/34, J Christensen 3/46.) lost to Otumoetai Cadets 204/4 (J Carter 54, B Christensen 77, R Rice 30no. B Das 3/55.)
Central 192 ( M McLaughlin 44, R Uerata 31, A MacKay 2/32, R Erikson 2/55, S Rae 2/38, M McCann 3/27.) defeated Te Puke 83 (M McCann 47no. J Trembath 6/18.)
Braves battered
Ngati Kahu Braves were thumped 11-0 by Waikato's Marlinz in the final of the Kotahitanga Fastpitch softball series in Hamilton on Saturday.
Ngati Kahu earlier fought their way to a 5-4 victory over Fairfield OU in the semifinal, which needed 10 innings to find a winner. Marlinz beat Manurewa Mets 8-5 in the other semifinal.
In the women's competition, Papakura Royals beat Marlinz 5-1, having beaten Melville 1-0 in the semifinals. In the other semi, Marlinz easily beat Manurewa Mets 10-0.
Tauranga players featured in the competition's season awards, however, with Andy Lee (Tauranga City Stealers) named top pitcher and Ngati Kahu's Tiaki Te Whereo runner-up. Lee was also in the top four batters, while Lee, teammate Tai Manukau and Ngati Kahu trio Te Whereo, Cody Brown and Mike Setefano were all named in the tournament team.
The Western Bay senior competition reached semifinal matches on Saturday with finals to be held this week.
BoP Women win

Bay of Plenty Women defeated Hamilton to claim the Women's District Association Championship Cup for the first time in their history in the final of the ND Women's cricket tournament on Sunday at Jansen Park, Hamilton.
Hamilton won the toss and chose to bat. The early run out of Heidi Arndt by Sarah Steenson saw the start of a mini collapse for Hamilton losing three wickets for just 14 runs. This brought Felicity Leydon-Davis to the middle with opener Natalie Dodd (who top-scored for Hamilton with 47) where the pair put on a partnership of 58, before they both lost their wickets in quick succession.
Bay of Plenty's tight bowling and exemplary fielding kept Hamilton to a score of 120.
BoP lost their first wicket in the 10th over with Felicity Leydon-Davis bowling Anna Peterson for 12, leaving Megan Murphy to come in at No3.
Jacinta Coleman and Murphy went on to produce a partnership of 65 before Leydon-Davis struck again taking the wicket of Coleman (28).
BoP also suffered a mini collapse losing three wickets for just 20 runs, but with four wickets in hand and only eight runs required BOP strolled to 121 in the 36th over.
Hamilton 120 all out (N.Dodd 48, K Jens 4/25 off 8. M.Murphy 2/14 off 5)
Bay of Plenty 121/6 (M. Murphy 49 no. J Coleman 28. F. Leydon-Davis 2/16 off 8)