Ashburton Guardian Thursday, May 14, 2015

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Allenton A junior netball teamThe Allenton A team were the Mid Canterbury Junior Netball Senior A winners going through the season unbeaten with 15 wins including the 33-14 win over Tinwald South A in the final. The team scored the most goals and conceded the least amount of goals across junior netball.

ADSC CubsThe under 11 little league team that could, they showed great competitive spirit over the course of the season collecting some memorable wins.

Ashburton College U16 boys’ relay teamThe Ashburton College relay team of Adam Phil-lips, Keegan Gentle, Gareth Hunt and Alin Onicas became South Island champions, taking out the under 16 4X100m relay by 0.47 seconds in Nelson, with a time of 45.41 seconds. Working with coach Trevor Cochrane, the team’s slick baton changes gave them the winning edge.

Ashburton College girls’ U16 doubleThe college combination of Veronica Wall and Grace Wilson won silver in the under 16 double scull at the Maadi Cup National Secondary Schools’ rowing regatta at Lake Karapiro. They had qualified for the A final at the South Island Secondary Schools’ regatta at Lake Ruataniwha but it was cancelled due to the weather.

Ashburton College girls’ 1st XVThe college girls were emphatic winners of a maiden Aoraki Second-ary Schools’ rugby title following an unbeaten season which culminated with a 17-12 win over Craighead. The team scored over 575 points and conceded just 97 in the 10 games. The same team then played as Mid Canterbury in a Hanan Shield match beating both North Otago 29-20 and South Canterbury 40-17. Chloe Te Moananui scored an incredible 30 tries and Nicole Pur-dom 26 with the pair two of nine players to be selected for the Hanan Shield team.

Ashburton College petanque teamFirst year players Shannon Crequer and Emily Hick-man formed the college’s first ever team and finished 13th out of 22 teams in the South Island Open Doubles Championships in Dunedin, but were the top secondary school pair. The pair joined coach Richard Browne for South Island triples and the trio came fifth. The girls added college’s Deon Biggs to form a trio for the na-tional triples, incorporating the youth championships - coming 15th overall and taking the youth title. Crequer then played for Canterbury in an inter-regional match.

Ashburton Junior Athletics teamThe Ashburton Juniors came up trumps at the South

Island Colgate Games in Dunedin. The team’s 13 7-9 year-olds received 20 pennants - consisting of seven gold, nine silver and four bronze - while the 20 10-14 year-olds won

18 medals - five gold, nine silver and four bronze. The haul had them bring home the Jeanette Vivian Memo-rial Tray as the most successful club with the best athletes-to-medals ratio. Ten of the athletes went on to represent Canterbury.

Jion DragonsThe karate team out of the Jion Ashburton Interna-tional Dojo competed in seven events, winning six gold medals and a bronze.The highlight for the Dragons was collecting gold at the New Zealand Open Championship in the 10-13 year old Kata team- which had Jessica Windhorst, Jenna Borthwick and Leanne Walsh perform a synchronised demonstration of form and technique. The Dragons also impressed in winning the Kyoso Cup in Wellington finishing first out of 17 teams - some that included adult instructors.

Outstanding junior team

Ashlee Strawbridge Strawbridge helped Mid Canterbury come second at the South Island’s premier-ships where she then made the Canterbury Country girls’ team and went on to win the National Under 13 Basketball Champion-ships. She was named into the tournament team. Strawbridge also played in the New Zealand Under 14 Koru team in the Austral-ian Country Junior Basketball Cup.

Veronica WallWall won gold in the under 16 single at the Maadi Cup New Zealand Secondary Schools’ rowing regatta at Lake Karapiro, and also won silver in the under 16 double with Grace Wilson. Wall had won gold at the South Island Secondary Schools’ regatta in the single adding to her Canterbury and Otago championship wins. The 15-year-old also won silver in the open women’s single at the New Zealand Rowing Champi-onships.

Jessica Windhorst Windhorst competed in eight karate tour-naments winning 16 medals and attended three national karate training camps. She won a gold and two silver at the New Zealand Open and a bronze in the national secondary school championships. In Janu-ary the 14-year-old black belt was selected to represent New Zealand in the Australian Open Championships in April.

Outstanding junior individual

Left - Former Warrior Logan Swann will be guest speaker at the sports awards.

More award finalists tomorrow