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PAGE 16 BAY HARBOUR<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>15</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
SPORTS<br />
International regattas<br />
for young sailors<br />
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
TWO TALENTED sailors will<br />
use their friendly competitions<br />
in Charteris <strong>Bay</strong> as training<br />
when they travel to international<br />
regattas next month.<br />
Will Hadfield qualified for<br />
the Optimist North American<br />
Championship in Antigua, and<br />
David Buchanan, who qualified<br />
for the International Optimist<br />
Dinghy Association World<br />
Championship in Portugal.<br />
The boys qualified for their<br />
respective international races<br />
in March through the Optimist<br />
Nationals, which were held in<br />
Auckland.<br />
Will’s mum Becky Hadfield<br />
said Will and David have always<br />
had a friendly rivalry when racing<br />
for their club.<br />
“It’s a great wee rivalry, and<br />
it’s always better when there are<br />
equal people to race against - it’s<br />
a healthy rivalry . . . it’s tight<br />
between them mostly. David has<br />
it this year, he’s slightly ahead<br />
because he’s going to the worlds,<br />
but Will’s still going to the North<br />
American regatta,” she said.<br />
Will, 13, will be representing<br />
New Zealand for the second<br />
time next month. His first competition<br />
was last year when Mrs<br />
Hadfield travelled with him to<br />
Doha, Qatar.<br />
AT SPEED: Will Hadfield,<br />
13, will travel to a North<br />
American yachting regatta<br />
next month.<br />
“Last year I went to Doha with<br />
him. But this year (his) dad is<br />
going with him, and I’ve missed<br />
out, but I’m not too worried, I<br />
think he’ll make it next year as<br />
well,” Mrs Hadfield said.<br />
She said both boys had trained<br />
hard for the past few months,<br />
and are both in the top 25 sailors<br />
aged under <strong>15</strong> in the country.<br />
“They’re both in the top 25<br />
sailors in the country. David’s<br />
currently sixth and Will’s 13th,”<br />
she said.<br />
Both Will and David are<br />
fundraising before they leave for<br />
their respective competitions,<br />
and have set up givealittle pages<br />
to help them get there.<br />
•If you would like to help, go to<br />
www.givealittle.co.nz and search<br />
for David Buchanan, and Will<br />
Hadfield.<br />
Big win caps milestone<br />
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
SUMNER celebrated Lawrence<br />
Babe’s milestone 100th match on<br />
Saturday with a 65-31 thrashing<br />
of Shirley at St Leonard’s Square.<br />
Babe has had a stellar season<br />
for Sumner. He has been<br />
awarded seven most valuable<br />
player awards, ninth equal with<br />
University’s Marty McKenzie<br />
for the most MVP awards in<br />
the Hawkins Division 1 Cup<br />
competition.<br />
Babe celebrated his milestone<br />
against Shirley with a try.<br />
“I’m pretty stoked to have<br />
made it to 100 games for the<br />
club, and it was pretty good to<br />
get the win as well,” Babe said.<br />
Another notable Sumner<br />
feat has seen first five-eighth<br />
Nik Cumming charge past the<br />
100-point mark for the season.<br />
Cumming chalked up his century<br />
against Christchurch two<br />
Saturdays ago, and on the weekend<br />
scored another 23 points to<br />
take his tally to 131.<br />
He scored two tries, kicked<br />
five conversions and a penalty<br />
goal against Shirley.<br />
He is now only 32 points<br />
behind points tally leader High<br />
School Old Boys’ first fiveeighth<br />
Jarred Percival’s total of<br />
163.<br />
Cumming said he was unaware<br />
of his personal points<br />
tally until only a few weeks ago.<br />
“I only found out in the last<br />
few weeks (that he was so close),<br />
so it was a bit of a shock really. I<br />
MILESTONE: Sumner celebrated Lawrence Babe’s 100th<br />
match for the club in style when they crushed Shirley 65-31. <br />
don’t focus on it, but it’s just the<br />
way we play, we try and build<br />
scores, and that can mean we<br />
kick for points often,” he said.<br />
But it’s not just penalties<br />
Cumming scores, he has also<br />
scored six tries, meaning he’s<br />
the Hawkins Division 1 Cup<br />
competition’s seventh equal top<br />
try scorer.<br />
Cumming will head back to<br />
the West Coast at the end of the<br />
season, to join back up with his<br />
team for the start of the Mitre<br />
10 Heartland Championship,<br />
which kicks off at the end of<br />
August.<br />
Sumner currently sit in ninth<br />
place on the competition ladder,<br />
with four wins from 11 games.<br />
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