Western News: January 30, 2018

8 Tuesday January 30 2018
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Straight sets win
• By Andrew King
PAPANUI’S DIEGO Quispe-
Kim overcame Fendalton’s Liam
Barrett in straight sets to lift the
12 and under national title on
Thursday.
Played at Wilding Park, Linwood,
the tournament saw competitors
from all over the country
vie for singles and doubles titles.
Hillview Christian School’s
Duncan McCall beat Auckland’s
Jack Chapman in a play-off for
third, 6-1, 3-6, 8-10, meaning
Christchurch players took all
three spots on the podium.
Diego, who plays for the
Waimairi club, went through the
tournament without dropping a
set, showing great ability to get
past Liam, 6-3, 6-2, in the final.
He beat Wellington’s Tom Bevan,
6-2, 6-1, in the opening round
before sweeping past Auckland’s
Jamie MacKenzie, 6-4, 6-2.
Diego then met South
Brighton’s Ethan Cooke in the
quarter-final and cruised to victory,
6-2, 6-2.
He played Jack in the semifinal
beating him, 6-2, 6-0.
Te Kura Hagley Park club
head coach Hugo Nurse-Strang
trained Liam and said it was a
fantastic final, played between
two very good young players.
It was great to have Cantabrians
in the top three. I don’t think
that has happened before, we are
normally lucky to have one in
the final, so this is really great,”
he said.
CHAMPION: Papanui’s Diego
Quispe-Kim won the 12 and
under national tennis title.
Diego also played in the doubles
with Auckland’s Rion Suga,
but was beaten in the quarterfinal,
6-0, 6-0, by Nelson’s ​
Finn Burridge and Auckland’s
Dominik Wijntjes.
St Martins School’s Ruby
Young and Hutt Valley’s Rosearna
Stairmand were beaten by
Auckland’s Kristina Bogomazova
and Sasha Situe in straight sets,
6-0, 6-1, in the girls doubles final.
Jack Chapman and Nelson’s
Harry Pugh won the boys doubles
against Auckland’s Lev Gorb
and Jamie MacKenzie, 2-6, 6-3,
10-4.
Sasha beat Kristina in the girls
final, 6-0, 6-1.
• By Andrew King
RANGI RURU Girls’ School
had a successful outing at
the South Island rowing club
championships in Twizel at
the weekend, bringing home
six golds, a silver and a bronze
during the two-day event at
Lake Ruataniwha.
A number of golds were won
at the event with Christchurch
Boys’ High (5), Villa Maria (2),
Christchurch Girls’ High (1) and
St Thomas’ (1) all topping the
podium.
The results are a good platform
for crews to work on with
SPORTS
BIG WINNERS:
Rangi Ruru rowing
crews won the
most golds out of
the seven schools
competing at
the South Island
club rowing
championships
in Twizel at
the weekend.
PHOTO: © STEVE
MCARTHUR ​
Rangi’s golden rowing haul
the South Island secondary
school championships on March
3, and the biggest rowing event
on the secondary school calendar,
the Maadi Cup, on March
19.
Rangi was the pick of the
schools with golds in the open
eights, under-16 eights, novice
eights, intermediate eights, under-16
four and under-16 quad
scull.
It also picked up silver and
bronze in the under-19 four.
CBHS won the men’s club
coxed eight in a time of 6min
13.48sec, beating the Blenheim
Rowing Club, 6min 16.06sec,
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and Avon Rowing Club, 6min
20.99sec. CBHS also took home
gold in the men’s under-19 coxed
quadruple sculls, men’s under-19
coxed quadruple sculls, men’s
under-19 coxed four and men’s
novice double sculls.
It also got silver in the boys
under-16 coxed eights and men’s
intermediate coxed eights and
bronze in the men’s under-19
coxed four, men’s under-19
coxed quadruple sculls and
men’s open coxless four.
St Thomas’ won gold in the
boys under-16 single sculls and
bronze in the boys under-16
double sculls.
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