Our mens team of Hayden Tapp, Ricky Yeung, Ben Collins and Sean Hanson has won their grading match 4-0 against Waikato to get into the A grade. Results here…
Hayden bt. Matthew Hetherington
Ricky bt. Jon Jon Zhao
Ben bt. Mark Page
Hayden & Ricky won the doubles.
Congratulations and good luck with the rest of the tournament!
The full team lists and results are here: Primary-Intermediate Schools Tournament 2015 – Results.
Thanks for Bruce Northover and helpers for running this event.
Congratulations to the winning teams and all entrants and thanks also to the schools and students for supporting our event and for the excellent behaviour and sportsmanship during the tournament.
The winning teams…
Clyde Quay School 1
Liam Buckrell
Calvin Li
Max Sargentina
Wellesley College 2
Fynn Holmes
Ruaridh Ferguson
Oscar Hough
Clyde Quay School 3
Arlo Rea
Daniil Seyb
Jack Ansell-Jones
Clyde Quay School 4
Zak Rigby
Thomas Collison
Matthew McCarty
Hutt Intermediate School 7
Tobiah Datchler
Jacob Nixon
Devon Mather
Josh C
Hutt Intermediate School 1
Antonia Hamilton
Tegan Bennik
Emma Hanson
Raroa Intermediate 3
Sydnie NU
Ariana D
Maggie M
Malcolm Wong flew up to Tauranga Thursday afternoon (10 September) to run an umpiring Course that night. There were 5 attendees. Simon Gallear (Regional) and Max Henderson (Junior) were successful in qualifying as umpires. Two other juniors passed the written junior exam, of which one has passed the oral exam.
On Friday Malcolm umpired matches in the New Zealand Community Trust Aims Games, including the Girl’s Team Final and the Boy’s Doubles Final. In the weekend he was one of the Referees for the Bay of Plenty Open and Veterans Tournament. He won the D Grade Doubles with Xavier Lea.
– Malcolm Wong
Here is a report on the Series 2 finals night from Kevin Haines…
A good crowd turned up at Empire to watch the Winter Interclub Series Two finals on the 15th of September.
The final of the Premier grade was between Titan Terriers (Ben Collins, Ricky Yeung, Lindsay Ward) and Waterloo Wasps (Hayden Tapp, Sean Hanson, Vance Kelly, with John Gan in reserve).
Right from the first round of singles it was obvious that a win for either was not going to come easily. Titan edged ahead 2-1, but the first doubles quickly restored an even situation. The second group of singles again put the Terriers into a slender lead and a win in the second doubles gave a 5-3 lead in the race to 6 points.
Probably the match of the night given the situation came next and was between Ricky Yeung and Sean Hanson and this went to the wire with little between them over five close sets, Ricky finally coming out on top with an 11-9 fifth set victory. This made the score 6-3 to the Terriers and recipients of the Tommy Williams Cup once again.
In another tough final, Waterloo Wolves (Gareth Telfer, Craig Gear, Scott Higham) played Empire Elders (Tony Rutledge, Bob Leeming, Bruce Connolly) in the final of Division One.
Again there a number of early games which were close but the Wolves opened up an early 3-0 lead and at one stage led 5-1, with the Elders only win at that stage being the first doubles. Slowly though, the Elders fought their way back to only being 4-5 down with potentially two matches remaining. A good four set victory for Gareth Telfer over Tony Rutledge sealed the 6-4 win to the Wolves in a fixture which only saw one three straight match. The Wolves thus now hold the Chris Williams Trophy.
In Division Two, Waterloo Whales (Ellen Xiong, Martin Xiong, Chris Sutton) played Empire Egrets (Graham Sole, Darrell Brown, Simon Jung). This was a good tussle although the Whales confirmed their favouritism with a 7-4 victory. Martin maintained his 100% record for the season for the Whales, while Graham Sole fought hard, achieving two wins, both to advantage in the fifth sets.
In other matches on the programme, in Premier Empire Eveready beat Titan Trail Blazers 7-0 and Empire Energisers beat Waterloo-Titan Wanderers 7-4. In Division Two, The Combo beat Empire Eskimos 6-2 and Waterloo Walnuts beat Empire Echoes 7-4.
Premier
Titan Terriers beat Waterloo Wasps 6-3 (Final)
Empire Eveready beat Titan Trail Blazers 7-0
Empire Energisers beat Waterloo-Titan Wanderers 7-4
Division One
Waterloo Wolves beat Empire Elders 6-4 (Final)
Division Two
Waterloo Whales beat Empire Egrets 7-4 (Final)
The Combo beat Empire Eskimos 6-2
Waterloo Walnuts beat Empire Echoes 7-4
Congratulations to all teams, particularly the three grade winners.
-Kevin Haines
Titan Terriers v Waterloo Wasps
Waterloo Wolves v Empire Elders
Waterloo Whales v Empire Egrets
In addition there are two other playoff fixtures in both Premier and Division Two grades.
The stats are here: Premier & Divisions (please verify your and your team’s numbers).
Semi finals and coming up, division 2 has one last round robin with some crucial clashes taking place before a grand final on Sep 15 (Tuesday – also this is the Premier final).
The division 1 final will also be on that Tuesday so come along and watch!
For all the stats:
Premier
Divisions 1 & 2
Feedback from the Wellington City Council was that the SportsFest event for schools went off brilliantly and they got a lot of really positive feedback from the kids who played table tennis – so thanks to Bruce Northover, Rob Chung, Kevin Haines & Richard Lee for doing the hard yards on making this happen!
There are a pile of great photos from the event here:
Day 1 photos
&
Day 2 photos (go to page 6)
