North Canterbury News: July 20, 2023

Afestival of sport
The Hazara Association of
Canterbury hosted an Afghan
multi­sports festival in
Rangiora over the Matariki
weekend.
Organiser Belal Haidari says
it was agreat turn out for the
first national sporting festival
for Afghans.
‘‘We hosted the first
tournament of mixed sports for
the Canterbury area last year,
but then decided to extend it to
all of New Zealand, to make it
more inclusive.’’
Atotal of 17 volleyball teams,
12 Futsal teams, six women's
netball teams and eight junior
Futsal teams spent the
weekend competing at
MainPower Stadium.
‘‘We had over 350 players,
supporters and coaches from
regional teams from all over
the country.
‘‘Normally these teams only
contest their regional titles,
but we wanted to bring them all
together because sport is the
only way for us all to get
together, to meet and enjoy
each others company and
renew friendships.’’
Mr Haidari says all were
close fought games with Etihad
FC (from Christchurch),
eventually beating Hazara FC
(Christchurch) 3­2 in the Futsal
final.Etihad FC was the back to
back champion.
Maiwand of Auckland beat
Wellington in the volleyball
final with the game going to the
fifth set to decide the winner.
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Nice move ... Hassan from
Christchurch twists mid­air as he
tries to keep out of the way of a
shot during his teams volleyball
match at the Afghan sports
festival.
PHOTO: JOHN COSGROVE
In the women’s netball
Dukhtaraye watan
(Christchurch) beat Wellington
girls in the final.
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Rangiora Golf Club
Nine­hole golf Jingles: Men:John Gardner30, 1; Cliff
Boddy 23, 2; Peter Van Hout 21, 3.
Women:Coleen White 18, 1; Sarah Rutherford16, 2; Pam
Holland 13 c/b, 3.
Stroke: Men: Stephen Bell 33, 1; Colin Bowman 36 c/b, 2;
3rd: Ron Reed 36 c/b. Women: 1st: Diane Sinclair 34; 2nd:
Jenni Brook 36; 3rd: AnnieCameron 37
RangioraBridge Club
Oxford Pairs:North/South: Heather Waldron/Beverley
Brain ,Craig Shannahan/Lynda Cameron 2, Margaret
Barson/Faye Priest 3. East/West: Lyn Edwards/Adrienne
Paine 1, Veronica Hall/DawnSimpson 2, GaynorHurford/
Lynda Grierson 3.
Winter Pairs: N/S: HeatherWaldron/Shirley Symns 1,
Penny Fisher/Ann Blackie 2, Adrienne Lamb/Anne
Anderson3.E/W: Norm Shipley/Lynette Tillman 1,Judy
Hayton/Janet Apperley2,Tom Rose/RonaMaslowski 3.
Junior Evening: N/S: Diane Graham/Trish Williams 1,
Denis Milne/Nevin Topp 2, Annette Caldwell/Gail Dunlop
3. E/W: MarilynEliet/Alison Howie1,Murray Davis/Sharyn
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PremierPairs: Barry Smart/LyndaCameron 1, Gaynor
Hurford/Dawn Simpson 2, Dave Tocker/Sue McIlroy 3.
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OhokavSaracens
After agood win against Oxfordlast
week, Ohoka was on the hunt for its
secondwin on the trot.
Saracens startedhot withatry out
wide in the firsttwo minutes, which
was unconverted.
But Ohoka struck backafter four
minutes with apenalty converted by
the everaccurate Scott Allin.
It was ahard fought battle for the
next 20 minutesbefore Ben Gold
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to score avery nice try under the
sticks, which was successfully
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Six minutesout from halftime
Patrick McCullum slippedthrough
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Saracens came out fired up after
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Saracens any chanceofmakinga
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The last points scored were by
way of alate penalty to Ohoka
kickedbyAllin. Players of mention
for Ohoka were captainRyan
McCullum, Ben Gold, Scott Allin,
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