Pegasus Post: July 16, 2019

10 Tuesday July 16 2019
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi
COMPETITIVE: The Avonside Girls’ High School combined year 9 and 10 netball team finished
fourth at the South Island tournament at Hagley Park last week. ​
Avonside claim fourth at
SI netball tournament
• By Jacob Page
AVONSIDE GIRLS’ High School
finished fourth in the combined
year 9 and 10 grade at the South
Island junior netball tournament
at Hagley Park last week.
Avonside went through pool
play unbeaten, taking down
Golden Bay High 36-20, South
Westland School 39-2 and
Cromwell College 34-19 to
comfortably top their group.
Their unbeaten run continued
in the round of 16 games, when
they beat Catholic Cathedral
College 46-16 and South Otago
High School 36-12 to again top
their group heading into the
quarter-finals.
Avonside prevailed in their
tightest contest yet to make the
semi-finals, thanks to a
27-21 win over Buller High
School. The final-four
match against Papanui High
proved a step too far for the
team and they were beaten
37-13 for their first loss of the
tournament.
The third and fourth play-off
was more competitive against
Gore High, but Gore eventually
prevailed 30-22.
It was the tournament’s 22nd
year at Hagley Park.
AVONSIDE GIRLS’ High
School cyclist Amelia Sykes
continued to show she is one to
watch in the future by winning
the under-16 individual time
trial at the South Island road
championships at Ruapuna
Raceway last week.
Sykes, who has won a silver
medal in the event at the national
level in March, won the event
with a time of 5min 12.67sec.
She was almost four seconds
clear of Amye Kellow from
Christchurch Girls’ High School
with Cashmere High School’s
Annabel Bligh a further 11sec
back in third.
Sykes has regularly competed
for Canterbury and has impressed
on both the road and
the track in recent seasons. She
has won national gold medals
on both surfaces.
More than 230 riders took
part in the South Island road
event, organised by Cycling
Canterbury Schools at Mike
Pero Motorsport Park. They
competed in individual time
trials, team time trials and road
race events.
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Sykes successful
in cycling
under-16 time trial
TALENT: Avonside Girls’ High
School cyclist Amelia Sykes
added a South Island road
title to her growing list of
accomplishments last week.
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