Southern View: April 02, 2019

12 Tuesday April 2 2019
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SOUTHERN VIEW
Shirley aces it at Nga Puna Wai
• By Gordon Findlater
SHIRLEY BOYS’ High School
broke in the new tennis facilities
at Nga Puna Wai by winning the
Boys Cup as part of the national
secondary schools teams finals.
The team of Reece Falck, Jordan
Edwards and Luca Landells
won the cup by defeating Fielding
High School 2-1 in the final
last week. The tournament was
the first national tennis tournament
played at the recently
opened Nga Puna Wai Sports
Hub.
The cup competition was
played in conjunction with the
national secondary school championships
- the country’s top
secondary school tournament -
being held at Wilding Park.
Through the five singles
matches Falck played during the
tournament he dropped just two
games.
In their first pool game Shirley
defeated Marlborough Boys’ College
3-0. Falck won his opening
match 6-0, 6-0, while Edwards
accounted was just as dominant
in a 6-0, 6-1 victory in the other
singles tie. SBHS then completed
the clean sweep when Falck
teamed up with Landells to win
the doubles tie 6-4, 6-4.
SBHS swept Auckland’s
Lynfield College in their second
pool game 3-0. Flack won again
without dropping a game and
Landells won the second singles
tie 6-3, 6-2. Falck and Edwards
WINNERS: Luca Landells, Reece Falck and Jordan Edwards
won the Boys Cup title as part of national secondary schools
teams finals.
then combined to comfortably
win the doubles tie 6-1, 6-1.
In their final pool match SBHS
came up against Fielding High
School. Falck again was perfect
6-0, 6-0. The team then dropped
their first point of the tournament
when Landells was defeated
2-6, 6-4, 7-10. However, SBHS
clinched the doubles and the tie
when Edwards and Falck won
6-1, 6-2.
The three victories saw SBHS
top their pool to set up a semifinal
against Hamilton’s St Pauls
Collegiate School.
Falck once again got his team
off to a perfect start with a 6-0,
6-0 win. Edwards then clinched
the tie with a gutsy 6-2, 1-6, 10-5
victory. With the tie already
decided the doubles wasn’t
played.
In the final Falck secured a
6-0, 6-2 over Connor Backhouse.
Edwards then sealed the title
with 6-1, 6-3 win against
Jonty Stewart. In the doubles
Backhouse and Stewart defeated
Edwards and Landells 2-6, 2-6.
DOMINANT: Reece Falck dropped just two games in his five
singles matches at the tournament.