COLLEGE SPORT: Bay pupils shine

TAURANGA BOYS'
The rowing season got off to a windy start at Rotorua's Blue Lake on Saturday. Wind right across the course made it a challenging event for both the novice and under-16 squads who attended.
The under-16 squad began with Daniel Bridgwater and Sheldon Noyce, who gained an incredible third. This was followed by Cody and Jackson Petit winning race two and enjoying the victory so much they failed to notice they had crossed the line and continued racing a further 400m.
The boys then swapped over and had some mid-table results in the open double but finished strongly with a powerful victory in the under-16 quad.
Tauranga Boys' College students made up the majority of a Tauranga City under-19 team that competed in soccer's prestigious national club championships in Napier. The team made it to the quarterfinals before losing to eventual runners-up Lower Hutt.
Tauranga Boys' junior A volleyball played Whakatane High School first up and had a comfortable win 2-0 in the Bay of Plenty junior qualifying.
They played Western Heights High School in the next game. From the previous weekend this looked like the team to beat. In a close encounter Tauranga went down 19-17 in the third set.
In the third game they played Kawerau High. After winning 25-8 in the first set they lost their way to lose the second set but bounced back to win 15-4 in the third.
Congratulations to Tom Crawford and Josh Taylor, who have been named as finalists in SPARC's 2010 Volunteer Coach Awards for the Bay of Plenty region. Tom Crawford, Dan Looker, Sean Richardson, Eugene Heerschap and Connor Irvine have all been selected to play in the Waikato FC soccer youth team. Thomas Probert and Dean Styles have been named in a New Zealand secondary schools under-15 squad and Andrew Carter is in the full national under-17 squad.
MOUNT COLLEGE

At the national tae kwon do championships held at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, we had three students who won gold in their respective weight divisions - Amy Stephenson (Year 12, under-52kg female 14-17 years), Omar Mohammed (Year 11, under-51 kg male 14-17 years) and Danielle Kawiti (Year 10 under-63kg female 14-17 years).
At the national judo champs held in Lower Hutt, two of our students won national titles - under-57kg cadet division Monique Dekkers and Chanelle Kavanagh (under-48kg cadet).
Our sports awards for 2010 were held last night at the Classic Flyers Museum with a record number of students receiving awards. Guest speaker John Adshead, former coach of the All Whites, gave an enlightening speech which was well received by over 350 guests and students.
Sports leaders, Sasha Greig and Brooklyn Reardon Nikara, supported by our student leaders, did a great job.
Outstanding sports achievement by a boy was won by JC Susan for his surfing prowess on the waves. He picked up the national title in the under-18 scholastic competition and led Bay of Plenty to victory.
JC was also in the national under-18 world ISA team and has again been selected in the 2011 team.
Outstanding achievement by a girl was awarded to the multi-talented Rebecca Parkes, who is currently in three national waterpolo teams - NZ youth, under-6 and secondary schoolgirls.
Deservedly, Rebecca also received the senior sportsgirl of the year trophy for captaining and taking her senior girls' waterpolo team to the North Island division two title and the national champs, as well as the team being un-defeated for 25 matches.
She is also the school's intermediate girls' swimming champ, and in athletics won the Bay secondary schools shotput champs. Bex is also a surf lifesaver and won a national teams title in Ohope and was a member of the winning Bay of Plenty secondary schools under-16 team.
Senior sportsboy of the year went to Danny Kayes, who represents New Zealand in the secondary schoolsboys' waterpolo team as well as playing in three Tauranga rep teams - senior men, under-18 and under-16.
As a surf lifesaver, Danny won three national titles, was awarded the Bay under-16 male competitor of the year and captained the gold medal-winning under-16 team at interdistricts.
He is a key player in the school's first XV rugby team and is the intermediate boys' swimming champ, breaking his own butterfly record this year.
Ben Cochrane won junior sportsboy for his first placing in the school's junior crosscountry and triathlon champs and winning the Bay Year 9 multisports champs. He is under-15 competitor of the year at the Bay surf lifesaving awards, having won the Bay champs for the third consecutive year.
Hannah Scown, who as a Year 10 student is in the top MMC netball team as well as the senior girls and junior volleyball teams, won junior sportsgirl.
Team of the year went to the girls' senior waterpolo team while contribution to sport in the school went to Paige Renwick for her netball umpiring.
Contribution to sport in the community had joint winners - Chad Wheeler and Nathan Smith for volunteer hours spent doing water safety in IRB boats for surf lifesaving events and community water events.
AQUINAS COLLEGE
There was great success for Aquinas College at the 2010 Special Olympics, with the school fielding a team of four for field and track events at Tauranga Domain.
The four - Year 8 students Spencer Kirk and Michael Hoonhout, Tara Cruickshank (Year 12) and Lauren Bruys (Year 10) - did well, gaining places in all their events.
TAURANGA GIRLS'
Bria Wollaston represented the junior women's inline hockey team for the Central North Island (BOP, Waikato, Taranaki) at a national competition in New Plymouth at Labour Weekend. They won gold for the fourth year in a row.
Several girls competed at the Bay of Plenty junior secondary schools tennis championships yesterday. In division one competitive grade, Sita Clarke was runner-up, Sophie Johnston winner of the plate, Simone Te Kani and Ashleigh Ross were winners of the competitive doubles and Poppy Thomason and Rebecca Barnard were runners-up in the competitive doubles. In division two, Isabella Kirk was runner-up in the singles and Bria Merritt and Danni Taylor won the doubles.
Kara Timmer has been selected for the international Taekwondo New Zealand team for the 2011 world champs in Wellington in March. She was been selected to compete in both the individual and team sparring, power and specialty events.
In cricket, Jacinta Coleman has been selected for the Northern Spirit development team. - Stephanie Prendiville.
OTUMOETAI COLLEGE

Our cricket first XI scored 120 against Bethlehem, with Kieran McSweeney top scorer with 36. Bethlehem scored 172 securing the win.
The commencement of college 35-over cricket was greeted by early summer sunshine and an opportunity for first points for Otumoetai second XI and Katikati College. Katikati batted first on their home strip and were dismissed for 149, with Jack Tisch taking 4-19.
Otumoetai's reply was dominated by Nick Ball, who retired on 52 as the target was reached in the 28th over. Our girls' team had a win over Aquinas, with Anna Henson retiring on 75.
BETHLEHEM COLLEGE

The cricket season is under way and last Saturday our first XI took on Otumoetai College first XI. Batting first the team scored a useful total of 179 with significant contributions from Bede Murray and Shane Anderson. This was sufficient for victory especially with Mark Savage taking an impressive five wickets.
Highlight of the week was the annual senior sports prizegiving. We were able to acknowledge students who had gained New Zealand representative honours.
These were Molly Meech, who sailed in the world youth championships in Turkey, Sean Watts, who rowed in Europe, Rose Keddel, who played hockey in the bronze medal-winning team at the Youth Olympics in Singapore, Sally Davenport (captain) and Beniece Douche, who played volleyball in Australia. and Matt Tew, who represented New Zealand in the BMX championships.
The top award winners were Sean Watts (M.E.Bailey Cup for Sportsman of the Year), Rose Keddel (Almond Cup as Sportswomen of the Year), Karina Radley and Luke Davison (Whenuaroa Cups for all round sporting achievement), Gareth Burton (SBS Sportsmanship Cup) and rugby first XV (Team of the Year). - Gareth Burton, sports captain.
KATIKATI COLLEGE

Our first XI cricket team lost the toss against Aquinas and we were sent in to bat. Our top three were quickly out and we were 3 down for 19 after 6 overs before Scott Nicol and Nipen Patel came together, forming a 152 run partnership before Nipen was eventually caught on 42. Scott continued on to make a masterful 117. At the end of the 40 overs we had a very good 224 runs for the loss of seven wickets.
Louie, Braden Brewer and Dylan Shea all took two wickets each to eventually have Aquinas on 170 after 40 overs for a 54-run win. Scott's 117 was the standout, consisting of 18 fours and three sixes from 104 balls. The second XI had a good performance for the first game of the season, scoring a respectable 149 runs from 35 overs against Otumoetai College, the highlight Sean Goode's quickfire 34. Unfortunately Otumoetai College went about their chase in a safe and steady way to reach the total for the loss of five wickets.