Pegasus Post: December 10, 2019

8 Tuesday December 10 2019
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Swainson, Tainui scoop
Woolston boxing awards
• By Jacob Page
THE WOOLSTON Boxing Club
capped a stellar year of growth
and achievement with their
annual awards.
Woolston now has the most
registered competitive boxers in
the South Island and had four
New Zealand representatives
and a national coach plus eight
Canterbury team members as
well as two boxers who are on the
Olympic prospect list for next
year.
Hamuera Tainui and Trevor
Swainson each won multiple
awards.
Tainui earned most wins
for the year with seven, most
scientific boxer and best at all
championships honours.
Head coach Holly Sullivan
said she was keen to find more
international fights for him after
he went to Australia three times
in the past 12 months.
“It would be good for him
to get used to travelling longer
distances and having to fight so
a possible trip to Ireland is something
I’m working on.
“Hams has really improved
his fitness this year, but he’s a
very scientific boxer and he’s a
southpaw so that helps him in
the ring,” she said.
Swainson was named most
improved boxer and also earned
ON THE UP: The Woolston Boxing Club has celebrated one of
its biggest years of growth with their annual awards. ​
the best performance of 2019.
“There’s never any issue with
Trev’s desire, fitness or work
ethic but the 91kg elite class is a
very competitive one,” Sullivan
said.
“He will target a national title
next year and he will work hard
to earn it.”
Crissy Reid was named female
boxer of the year after a standout
nationals campaign and also won
best international fighter.
Awards:
Most Wins - Hamuera Tainui
Best female - Chrissy Reid
Mini cadet of the year Bobby
Brown
Most improved cadet - Ryley
Sutherland and Azury Ormsby
Most improved junior - Te Atetangi
Paris
Most improved youth - Patrick
Liptrott
Most improved elite - Trevor
Swainson
Gamest tryer - Philippa White
Best challenge - Oliver Bristowe
Most scientific - Hamuera Tainui
Best performance - Trevor
Swainson
Best at all championships - Hamuera
Tainui
Best international - Chrissy Reid
• By Jacob Page
LUCIA GALE has impressed at
the New Zealand junior tennis
championships at the Scabro
Centre in Auckland.
The Cashmere club player
was competing in the 12s
age-group. Lucia and her
Auckland-based partner Jamie
MacKenzie won the mixed
doubles in convincing fashion.
The top-seeded duo dropped
just two games in their three
matches and won the final
4-0, 4-0 in 37min against No
2 seeds Max Richardson and
Chelsea Wijntjes.
She made it to the semi-finals
of the singles where she lost to
Mahinarangi Warren 4-6,-3-6
but she did bounce-back to win
the playoff for third by beating
Chelsea once again, 6-3, 6-0.
Lucia then teamed with
club-mate Ruby McPhail in
the doubles and lost a tough
semifinal against Chelsea and
her partner Xin Xin Zhu 6-3,
4-6, 7-10.
Her coach James Meredith
said he was thrilled with the
results and he hoped with another
year in the age-group in
2020, she would be able to push
SPORT
Lucia Gale impresses
at junior nationals
Lucia Gale ​
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for the title.
“She is quite slight, so some
of the older girls are able to
control the points by being
more physical and using more
spin,” he said.
“As she grows, we’ll keep
working on it and try to build
her serve up as well because
there are a few too many
double-faults for my liking but
that’s quite common at this
grade.”
Lucia will now compete
represent New Zealand at the
Tennis Australia nationals in
Melbourne which start today
which will be her fourth time
representing her country
overseas in 2019.
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