Pegasus Post: February 27, 2018

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Tuesday February 27 2018 13
Burwood archers eye up titles
Mother and
daughter make
NZ teams
• By Andrew King
BURWOOD archers Maria
Tucker and her daughter Lauren
have both been named in New
Zealand teams to compete
overseas.
Lauren, along with Canterbury
University’s Julia Harrison,​
have made the Archery New
Zealand transtasman team.
They will join the 24-strong
team to compete against
an Australian side ​in
Morwell, Victoria, from April
19-23.
Lauren, a year 12 student at
Christchurch Girls’ High, will
compete in the cadet women’s
compound section, while Harrison
will take part in the junior
women’s recurve.
Lauren’s mother has made the
Archery New Zealand team to
compete at the World Cup in
Shanghai, China, from April
23-29. She will take part in the
senior women’s recurve.
All three are members of
the Grey Goose Wing Archery
Society on Ferry Rd. Tucker,
54, is coached by her husband
Colin, who also coaches
daughter Lauren and is the
• By Andrew King
NEW BRIGHTON is on the
hunt for front rowers to join their
ranks and help push for another
title this year.
After beating Sumner 19-16
in the division one plate final in
July, the team wants to keep its
winning ways.
Division one coach Scott
Pawson said their No 1 prop
Carisbrook To’omalatai’s visa has
expired so he has headed back to
Samoa and Connor Pokoati has
gone to Europe to work. Hooker
Feleti Katitu’u has signed with
the Western Force in the new Indo-Pacific
Rugby Championship
which billionaire mining magnate
Andrew Forrest is trying to
set up after the Perth-based club
SHARP-SHOOTERS: Burwood’s Maria and Lauren Tucker and Canterbury University student
Julia Harrison have been selected in two New Zealand archery teams to compete overseas.
society’s president.
It is the first time Tucker has
qualified for the World Cup. She
made the cut at a tournament in
Rotorua earlier this month.
WANTED: Former New
Brighton captain Mitch Alcock
with the Hawkins Trophy
after their victory in 2013. The
division one side is trying to
recruit front rowers to have a
crack at the title this year.
“It is pretty awesome. Always
wanted to do it, I’m really quite
stoked about it,” she said.
She has also qualified for the
Oceania championships in New
Caledonia from July 9-13.
North Canterbury’s Rebecca
Jones and Ellesmere’s Ryley
Griffiths have also been named
in the transtasman team.
was dropped from Super Rugby.
“Oli Jager is also in the Crusaders
environment as well, so we have
a couple left but we need more as
it is quite a specialised position,”
Pawson said.
Rugby development officer
Roddy Butt said it is quite easy to
find loose forwards and backs but
the front row is a bit of a struggle.
“We have a couple at the moment
but we want to boost our
stocks across all the grades . . .
they [props] seem to be the hardest
to find,” he said.
New Brighton is not looking
for the next Joe Moody, although
SPORTS
In Brief
CANTY CYCLING TEAM
Shirley Boys’ High’s Ezra
Williams-Gillies has been selected
in the under-17 boys Canterbury
Track Cycling team, while
Avonside Girls’ Amelia Sykes has
made the under-15 girls team.
Both will compete at the New
Zealand age group track cycling
championships in Invercargill
from March 8-11.
MCCULLUMS WIN IN POOL
Members of the Aqua Gym Swim
Club in Linwood, Luke and
Thomas McCallum, won medals
at the New Zealand junior festival
in Dunedin. Luke won the boys
under-10 50m, 100m and 200m
breaststroke and Thomas took
out the boys under-12 200m
breaststroke.
TRIATHLON PODIUM
Shirley Boys’ High’s Jaxon Taylor
finished third in the Challenge
Wanaka secondary schools
triathlon. Jaxon, finished the senior
boys section in 44min 30sec, 21sec
behind winner Saxon Morgan
(44min 9sec), of St Andrew’s
College, and second-placed Gregor
Findlay (44min 14sec), of Wanaka’s
Mount Aspiring College. The event
consisted of a 300m swim, 14km
cycle and 3.5km run.​
Recruitment drive to solve New Brighton front row shortage
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that would be nice, Butt said.
“Someone that can hold up a
corner will do,” he said. The club
has put the call out in a Facebook
post: “Championship titles and
good props go hand-in-hand and
we are after both.”
They have a few hookers in the
grades, but more would be handy,
Butt said.
New Brighton is also entering
under-16 and under-19 teams.
The latter will join a new competition
started by the Canterbury
Rugby Football Union to give
school leavers an extra option
rather than just colts rugby.
•If you are keen to join the
New Brighton club or know
someone who is, give Roddy
Butt a call on 021 656 695.