Sports Results

A great game by a team of mostly new to netball girls! 3 of them playing in their first ever game! We had a lot of the ball at our end of the court and so the shooters got in lots of practice on the new 3m high goals. We definitely had a height advantage (yay!) and used that to great effect at both ends! It was a great confidence booster and wonderful to see smiles on their faces despite the atrocious weather! Well done girls! Wendy

Another good win for our boys against opposition which seem to be getting stronger.Jaimie gets player of the day for really getting involved,defensive hassling and when he gets the ball,making good passing decisions. We missed Tony's intercepting skills. A few too many fouls by us and a bit of wild shooting creeping in. Max nice and calm with the ball. All in all a good game by us. Go Giants!

Off to a scary start when our opposition scored quickly off the mark! Took us by surprise I think. Once underway again , the girls got into rhythm and fought back faster and furiously notching up our own quick 3 goals or so. The competition really was a bit stronger this week and tested us at times. Well done to the forwards for getting the ball up the field with plenty of other near goals. Also to the defence for their strong teamwork backing each other up as practiced at training! Great reading of the game by Grace Buxton earned her player of the day for some clever interceptions! A special mention also for Lauren Smyth who did some great passing and very strong defending as usual!

What an exciting game today, and the first win of the season for the Shooting Stars! The girls got off to a bit of a tentative start, having not had the benefit of a practise in their game positions due to bad weather on Tuesday. However, the ball was ‘whipped up’ on numerous occasions by our amazing GK, Ruby, and sent down court again. Brooklyn got herself in some great spaces to help launch the ball into the centre third, where Ava, Emily and Sophia were quick to assist bringing the ball down towards the our shooting circle. The opposition had a few attempts at shooting for goal in the first half, which were unsuccessful. Shylaa kicked off the second half with lots of energy and a renewed understanding of her Centre role. With great play by Shylaa and Sophia, the ball came down the court, giving Gabby her first opportunity to have a go at shooting. Although the first attempt was unsuccessful, she was very shortly rewarded for her hard practise sessions all week. The Shooting Stars were one goal up, and there was major excitement on the sideline – not to mention lots of cheering by the ‘blue and greens’ on court! Lorna had a very strong presence in the second half, working so well with ‘interceptor Ruby’ to bring the ball down the court, where Ava and Gabby combined beautifully to position themselves for another goal attempt. Another great goal followed for Gabby! Well done Shooting Stars, you were definitely little stars today!

A stunning effort from the girls, completely outplaying Murrays Bay across the court and scoring at nearly a goal a minute. Sophie made a geat effort to make practice on Friday even though she was unwell, she didn't attend school but fronted up on Saturday and played outstandingly. Her shooting was excellent making 17 goals, Danielle scored the other 9 goals and combining well to ensure the person in the best position took the shot. Another really strong game from Emily at WA who pounced on any loose ball and fed the shooting circle well. She was well supported by Lauren for her great mid court skillsThe defensive end had a relatively quiet game with Grace and Imogen keeping Murrays Bay scoreless and Tilly (WD) in particular pulling off a number of intercepts.

First win for the QT's - go girls, what a great effort by all of you!!! Winning goal scored by Ellie Phillips Most improved player Nieve Harrison

An excellent performance from the whole team, which had come back from their first loss the previous week. At practice we had spoken about improving passing, staying calm, and not taking wild shots and it was fantastic to see how the boys improved in all those areas. Tony for his intercepting skills and Arran for intelligent passing options get Player of the Day. Kieran and Max excellent passing and shooting at the right time, James great defending as usual and becoming very confident working the ball up.Jaimie and Solomon good supporting and passing. Go Giants

Coaches Award - Brianna Smith - for keeping her stick down! Well done girls. For so many of you it is your first season of Hockey and you are all working so hard to pick up the skills and techniques needed to be great Hockey players.

A tough game against an experienced team but the tornado's played very well considering it's only their second game in A grade, having moved up from the begginners grade at the start of this term.

Second grading game!! Another great win . Goals scored by a number of girls. Sophie finished of a couple of lovely goals. Well done Sophie

Greenhithe Angels played exceptionally well on Saturday. All the parents and myself are very proud of them. Our practices are paying off with the girls becoming more confident in their passing and learning the rules as we go. Tanusha was the only player out of both teams to score a goal in the second half and her tenacity paid off earning her player of the day. Look forward to next Saturday for another great game! Dawn Bethell Coach

A great start to our netball season with a solid win! Well done to all the team expecially since it was their first ever netball game. Well done to our player of the day, Frederieke who had an outstanding defensive game. Great shooting by Cushla Stanton and Izzy Olsen, who were well supported by Isla Senn and Gypsy Dil throughout the mid court. Good steady defending by Shayla Ashton and Choe Summerville and Nikita Rennie, who also made it hard for the opposition to score and keep the ball down their end of the court. Coaches and parents were all very proud of you. Well done.

Great first game out. Quite a strong team we played, so we were happy with the score line. Amazing defence by Sarah Mott.

What a great start to the season boys, especially since most of you have not played hockey before. Karl Wallace scored 3 of our goals with Trent Jones scoring the other. The team played really well together with some great passing and spreading out on the field. Keep up the good work boys.

Coaches Award: Paige Stevensen for always getting to the ball and working hard on both attack and defence!

A tough game against tough competitors Mitchell our goalie also deserves a special mention as he really held them back saving an uncountable number of goals.

Devon - Many amazing intercepts, pulling in high ball that we all thought was lost. Jessica - Lovely offering as GS and GA and great shooting. Grace - Great passing as Centre and making yourself available when needed. Paige - Great popping forward as GS and always being available. Sarah - Great defence, intercepts off the tallest opposition! Bella - tips all over the court well done. Courtney - Brilliant defensive game and I thought your strongest position was shooting. Syliva - Always available and lots of lovely tips in the defensive circle and intercepts!!

Gemma Bell was awarded the Fair Play Award - Gemma worked hard the whole game and put into practice what we had been working on at training. I saw lots of tips of the ball and improved eye's up on the ball on defence, nice work! Combined Coaches award went to Jorgia Bult and Jeri Wilkinson for taking their feet to the ball which meant more and cleaner intercepts! Well done girls, great to watch. You all deserved the win tonight, the final hooter went just 1 minute too early!!!!

Fair Play went to Kayla Leslie for her determination in marking the kauri tree opponent. You were worried but you dominated and got lots of intercepts and forced them to make some error's - well done. Coaches award went to Jeri Wilkinson for dodging and driving without bunching. You created space and made yourself available within the confines of the goal circle really well.

Fair Play award went to Mia Rua for her improvement on watching the ball when defending - well done, you picked up a lot more intercepts! Coaches award for clearing out when bunching went to Tayla, I could see you physically looking around to see where the others where and clearing out when everyone was driving to the same space - Well done.

Special mention to Bella who worked hard and showed marked improvement in the goal circle as a shooter - fair play award, well done. Emilie was awarded coaches award for getting involved on defense and making it hard for the opposition to get free, lots of intercepts and winning loose balls, well done.

Fair Play was awarded to Mia Rua. Some great passing under the goal Mia, nice feeding in to our shooter. Jeri was awarded the coaches award for driving back on her player quickly and effectively to keep (him)/her out of the game and got up into the air on many occasions to some great intercepts. A shame the score didn't reflect the great defensive game you all had.

Well done Devon Thorpe for being awarded the Fair Play Award - you made it easy for the team to keep moving down the court with your fast confident drives to space and then realising some great passes. Nice work Courtney Charles making yourself available for passes by clearing out and away from the bunch!!! This made it easy to award you with the coaches award for the game.

A fantastic game - Mairangi Bay were coming joint top with Red Beach so I thought it was going to be a really tough game for the boys. But as the score shows - Greenhithe were all over them - they did not stand a chance from start to finish. Well Done boys - I am really proud of you.

Awesome Team Work!

Special mentions also to Kayla Leslie and Mia Rua who took home Fair Play and Coaches awards respectively. Kayla - a very nice defensive game, you picked up many intercepts down in the defensive circle even though you were marking a very tall shooter, well done on your persistance and perserverance. Mia - lovely to see you working so hard to put into practice what we learnt at training, well done on some very restrictive defensive marking.

Also special mentions to Fair Play recipient Jorgia Bult and Coaches Award recipient Gemma Bell. Well done girls!!!

Great second half game, we were still asleep in the first half. The team is coming along really well for first year hockey players. Keep up the good work guys and hopefully you are all enjoying it as well.

An awesome game where we worked well as a team to achieve a great win. Well done girls

Other special mentions: Jeri Wilkinson - fair play award - nice game Jeri. Maren Howarth - Coaches award for driving forward and pivoting quickly - even though you had players trying to catch a lift on your back you still drove hard got some really nice ball. Well done.

Great game I'n wet conditions . Both very even teams well done.

The girls were amazing. They looked for the spacing and drove the ball down court to our goal area. With the help of Zion (GA) providing fantastic ball feeding, Eden (GS) was able to net the ball with relative ease. At half time we were leading but the St John Dolphins pulled back as unfortunately we were not able to score any more goals. However the team managed the substitutions really well and remembered their areas of play on court. A well deserved draw for the whole team who gave 100% on the day.

Thank you again to Luke Buxton and Harry Amor for filling in for our team. You boys Rock !

A bad start... but the girls put their heads down and gave it everything they had to try climb back - Thats what its all about - Awesome !!!!!

A relatively easy first half for Tilly, our sweeper, and two great goals from Grace and another from Imogen. So at half time we decided to give Tilly a run around and Giselle was desperate to play as sweeper. My goodness, what an amazing display of goalkeeping by Giselle - our worthy player of the day!

Absolutely exceptional game by my girls. The score did not reflect the game as we had 14 atte,pts at goal and only got 1 in. Well done my Jewels!!!

Notable performances also from Sarah Taylor and Paige Stevenson. Sarah gave her all the whole game and never gave up, driving forward very well, well done Sarah. Paige, having taken a heavy fall in the first quarter, got back on during the quarter break and played a lovely game. The opposition were huge and intimidating however our - what looked like very small girls - gave their all and played some good netball.