Bay Harbour: April 12, 2017

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Wednesday April 12 2017
SPORTS
Senior rugby
side looking
for first win
SUMNER’S DIVISION 1 side
face a tough task on Saturday,
as they continue their bid to
get their first win of the rugby
season.
An away trip to play last year’s
grand-final winner, Lincoln
University, awaits Sumner, who
have opened their campaign
with two defeats.
On Saturday, they went
down 15-39 to Sydenham at St
Thomas of Canterbury College.
The game was originally set to
be played at Hospital Corner.
However, it was relocated due to
flooding.
Sumner’s standout performer
was once again No 8 Dylan
Nel who provided plenty of goforward
with the ball.
Lincoln University have
started their campaign with
two wins against New Brighton
and Marist Albion.
Sumner runs into the medals
CHAMPION: Jess Fahey raced
down the home straight to win
the under-19 girls 1500m race. ​
FOUR SUMNER Running
Club athletes won medals at
this month’s South Island
secondary school athletics
championships.
Jess Fahey’s performance in
the under-19 girls 1500m was
the highlight at the two-day
event in Dunedin. She won
gold by the slimmest of margins,
crossing the line less than
a second in front of Harriet
Bush. Fahey’s time of 4min
41.01sec was also four seconds
faster than her previous personal
best.
Beth Hunter also had an
outstanding weekend claiming
bronze in both the under-14
girls high jump and 400m –
both events were on at the same
time, making the accomplishment
even more impressive.
She broke her personal best
time in the 400m final, running
61.79sec. She also set a new
personal best in the high jump,
which now stands at 1.46m.
Victoria Wells had a successful
weekend claiming silver in
both the under-16 girls 80m
hurdles and under-19 4x100m
relay. She also teamed up with
fellow Sumner runner Abby
Theobald to win a bronze
TALENT: Beth Hunter won
bronze in both the under-14
girls 400m and high jump.
medal in the under-16 4x400m
relay.
Tim Ward finished his
season off with two excellent
sprints which saw him narrowly
miss out on a medal. He
ran close to his personal best in
the under-15 boys 100m final
to finish seventh. In the 200m
event, he set a new personal
best of 24.48sec and finished
fifth in the final.
TRIO: Victoria Wells won
three medals, including a
silver in the under-16 girls
80m hurdles.
FASTER: Tim Ward ran a
personal best in the under-15
boys 200m and narrowly
missed out on a medal.
Weather system likely to produce swells
Learn to Surf founder
and principal instructor
Aaron Lock writes about
the weather’s impact on
surfing in Sumner and the
recent competitions
With all this grey wet weather
lately, it’s hard to believe our
best days of summer were only a
month ago.
The water temperature peaked
early March at 20 deg C but it
quickly begun its gradual slide
and is now sitting at about 15 deg
C. Our tropical cyclone season
has come late this year.
The silver lining to the wet
weather has been some fantastic
waves on the local beaches. The
last system ex-Cyclone Debbie
brought big clean conditions to
Sumner and consistent offshore
Aaron's Surf Report
winds meant for some great
waves last week.
This week the swell is building
again with three ex-tropical lows
spinning around the country
and Cyclone Cook is forecast to
bring swells of 3m to 4m over
Easter. Keep an eye out for the
offshore change and be careful of
the strong currents at the peak of
the swell especially at the Breakwater
end of Scarborough Bay.
The contest season has been
hectic with multiple events all
over the country. Local surfers
have been achieving some great
results.
The Ray White Duke Festival
of Surfing attracted more than
250 entrants contesting 18 divisions.
Unfortunately, the waves and
weather were pretty average but
it was still a fantastic celebration
of surfing.
Local surfers still performed
well. Luke O’Neill won the men’s
logger event and was second
in the men’s longboard. Nina
Young won the women’s longboard.
Lucy Temoananui won the
women’s logger and the women’s
SUP event. Grant Cochrane
won the men’s over 40s. Donna
Henderson won the women’s
over 40s while daughter Ava
won both under-14 and under-12
girls.
Local boardriders club Point
Surf Team held their first PST
Club Trophy event for many
years. The club is under going
a revival at the moment mainly
driven by a new enthusiastic
bunch of grommets. The open
men’s event has been won in the
past by such names as Manu
Schafer, Ryan Mateer and Aaron
Stanley.
This year it was won by Luca
Brunotti. Angus Mossman
won the cadets, Jack Tyro
the under-12 boys and Ruby
Armstrong and Holly Campbell
shared the top under-12 girls
title.
Harrison Whiteside achieved
the best result of his surfing
career in February winning the
prestigious under-20 event at the
Billabong Grom Series presented
by Oceanbridge in Whangamata.
This event is the first part of the
NZ Grom series attracting top
junior surfers.
New Zealand’s Ricardo Christie,
of Mahia, had his best result
recently on the world qualifying
series winning the three-star
Martinique Surf Pro in France.
This will push him up the ratings
to hopefully be one step closer
re-qualifying for the top tier
world championship tour.
Easter weekend will see all
the South Island’s top surfers
heading for Dunedin for the
South Island Champs and with a
big north swell forecast the surf
could be pumping down there.
Good luck to all. Go PST.
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