CANNONS FIRE: The Coastal Homes Cannons netball team representing Mangonui came first in the Year 6 division at the New World Kerikeri Netball Tournament in Kerikeri on Sunday, June 19.
CANNONS FIRE: The Coastal Homes Cannons netball team representing Mangonui came first in the Year 6 division at the New World Kerikeri Netball Tournament in Kerikeri on Sunday, June 19.
The local netball sides finished strongly at the Kerikeri Netball Centre's second annual Barfoot & Thompson Kerikeri Representative Tournament on Sunday.
KNC president Wendy Cribb noted it was a great day with 23 representative teams from Mangonui, Bay of Islands, Kerikeri, Whangarei, Northern Wairoa and Hibiscus Coast playing over fourgrade levels.
Winners and runner up placings in each grade were: Year 7: Hibiscus Coast 1, Kerikeri 2, Year 8: Whangarei 1, Hibiscus Coast 2, Year 9: Whangarei 1, Kerikeri 2, U15/17 grade: Bay of Islands U17s 1 Kerikeri Under 15s 2. On behalf of the centre, she gave a big thank you to elite and various other sponsors of the event.
In other Kerikeri Netball Centre news, there was also a strong turnout for the annual long-running Kerikeri New World Junior Tournament the previous weekend, with Wendy Cribb noting all games were played in tremendous spirit and it proved another fun and successful day.
The winners and the runners up this event on Sunday, June 19, were, Year 5: Kawakawa Magic 1, Keith's Minis 2, Year 6: Coastal Homes Cannons 1, Mini Mystics 2, Year 7: Kawakawa Ferns 1, Kura Tuakana 2, Year 8: KKHS Doves 1, WIS Silver 2.
