Nor'West News: October 10, 2017
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16 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
SPORTS<br />
NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Four north-west students<br />
in national ice hockey team<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
BURNSIDE HIGH’S<br />
Phoebe Thompson, Alyssa<br />
Murphy and Katelyn<br />
Heyrick and St Andrew’s<br />
Ellie Dugdale have been<br />
selected in the under-18<br />
women’s national ice<br />
hockey team.<br />
They are part of the squad<br />
that will travel to Kuala<br />
Lumpur in March to compete<br />
in the IIHF ice hockey<br />
women’s challenge cup Asia<br />
tournament.<br />
They will face Thailand,<br />
Singapore and a Chinese<br />
Taipei team.<br />
Year <strong>10</strong> student Ellie only<br />
started playing two years<br />
ago, but her selection in the<br />
team is fantastic a school<br />
spokeswoman said.<br />
The tournament gives<br />
Asian countries that are not<br />
in the World Championship<br />
programme, or that play in<br />
a lower division, a chance to<br />
compete.<br />
Other Canterbury players<br />
included in the side<br />
are Lincoln High’s Brooke<br />
Whitman, Marian College’s<br />
Millicent Smith and Shirley<br />
Boys’ High’s fill-in goalie<br />
Lilly Forbes.<br />
SELECTED: St Andrew’s<br />
Ellie Dugdale will travel<br />
with the under-18<br />
women national ice<br />
hockey team to Kuala<br />
Lumpur in March.<br />
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• By Andrew King<br />
ST ANDREW’S College,<br />
St Margaret’s College and<br />
Christchurch Girls’ High<br />
will compete at the New<br />
Zealand secondary schools<br />
netball championships<br />
starting today.<br />
They will face 16 teams<br />
from around the country,<br />
who qualified for the event<br />
at recent regional events,<br />
for the national title.<br />
St Margaret’s will want<br />
to improve on their 2014<br />
performance where they<br />
placed second at the tournament.<br />
Last year they were<br />
seventh and in 2015 they<br />
placed ninth.<br />
St Andrew’s have placed<br />
15th out of 16 teams for<br />
the past two years and are<br />
looking to put in a solid<br />
performance at the tournament<br />
after qualifying<br />
second at the secondary<br />
schools South Island netball<br />
championships behind<br />
Dunedin’s St Hilda’s Collegiate.<br />
They also won this year’s<br />
Canterbury Supernet competition.<br />
The last time CGHS were<br />
in the tournament they<br />
placed 16th in 2013.<br />
The tournament is held<br />
HOPEFUL:<br />
St Andrew’s<br />
have placed<br />
15th out of<br />
16 teams for<br />
the past two<br />
years and are<br />
looking to<br />
put in a solid<br />
performance<br />
at the<br />
tournament.<br />
Netballers head for school champs<br />
at the Energy Events Centre,<br />
Rotorua and runs until<br />
Friday.<br />
St Andrew’s start the<br />
tournament off against<br />
Hamilton’s St Paul’s Collegiate<br />
at <strong>10</strong>.40am and<br />
St Mary’s Wellington at<br />
3.20pm.<br />
CGHS plays Palmerston<br />
North Girls’ High at<br />
11.50am and Auckland’s<br />
St Kentigern College at<br />
4.30pm.<br />
St Margaret’s play<br />
Lower Hutt’s Sacred Heart<br />
College at 1pm and Palmerston<br />
North’s Manukura<br />
at 5.40pm.
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