RATHKEALE SPORTS EXCHANGE

Our senior A tennis lost 5-7, Hunter Every, Tom Baines and Sam Lowry won their singles matches, and the pairings of Hunter/Jackson Lambert and Sam/Will Apatu won their doubles matches.  Our junior A won 12-0.

In the 3 day 1^st XI cricket match Finn Reid picked up 5/60 off 29 overs and Lindisfarne needed to score 272 in five hours their second innings to win the game. They succeeded in this in the second to last over of the day with Sam Bartram (89*) and Sam Cassidy (76) leading the way.

2^nd XI won by 3 wickets with some good bowling by Marcus Sisam 2/22 and James Ericksen 2/21 before the batting of Connor Kimble (48), Marcus Sisam (23) and Noah Schmidt (20)

and Colts A restricting Rathkeale to 125 with the wickets shared around before Nic Robertson (35), Tom Speers (30 not out) and Tom Cassidy (20) steered the team to an eight wicket win.

We won the overall exchange retaining the trophy.  Good work to those boys involved in the exchange.

CRICKET

In Saturday cricket the Second XI went down to Napier Tech, the First XI went down to Havelock North CC and Colts B, a loss, both enjoyed good games.

Lindisfarne Colts A had a comfortable win against St Johns colts scoring in excess of 200 with contributions by Reid, Speers and Chatfield.  The team bowled well to restrict St John’s to 130.

Our intermediate 1^st XI defeated Havelock North intermediate by 57 runs. Lindisfarne made 149 for 5 with Fergus Benefield 33 , Harry Reed 32 not out and Presley Krupa 18 batting well. Havelock North scored 92 all out with Patrick Ross 4 wickets and Jed Bruce 2 wickets the chief destroyers.

Our intermediate 2^nd XI played Napier Old Boys Marist who scored 110 runs compared to our 67.  Our top run scorer was Daniyal Sheikh.  The entire team were very positive and competitive against a very good side.

Last Friday the Colts A lost their Hawkes Bay final to Napier BHS who dominated the match. 

Over the last week Charlie Wenley for Colts B made 79 runs, Sam Bartram First XI 89 runs not out and Sam Cassidy First XI 76 runs

FUTSAL

Our senior Div 1 team won 4-2 against NBHS. Ben Barker was outstanding scoring all four goals.  Our senior Div 2 had a loss 6-1 against Taradale 

Our Junior year 10 team won against USH 4:2. Our junior year 9 team lost against Napier Boys 2:3 in a very tight and exciting match.

On Sunday our senior futsal team had some pre warm up games prior to nationals.  Game 1 Lindisfarne won 2-0 NBHS. Game 2 Lindisfarne narrowly lost 0-1 HBHS. Game 3 Lindisfarne lost 2-5 HNHS

TOUCH

In the first round of touch last Thursday.  The Junior B1 team had a Draw 5 -5 against NBHS Schinde Stags and

The junior B2 team lost to NBHS 2-4. The team performed pretty well given it was their first game.  Keegan Jenson and Will Baines scored 1 try each, Jack Duncan and Jock Lee all had strong games and Ben Grey shows some real promise. 

SAILING

Carl Marshall finished 8th at the yachting nationals last week in Wellington. He competed at the U17 level.

CANOE POLO

Well done to Jacob Porter (year 9) Thomas Griffiths (year 8) and Ashton Taylor (year 8) who were selected for the Hawkes Bay U16 Canoe Polo Grade D reps and finished second in the nationals over the weekend in Hastings.

TENNIS

Sam Harrison had a great weekend at the Inter-Regional tournament.  He played two singles games and three doubles games representing Tennis Eastern region for U11’s. He won all his games which were long hard battles.

Hunter Every won all three of his singles matches, and two of his three doubles matches in this competition.

Tom Haliburton also competed in this competition. 

TRIPLE PEAKS

Last Saturday Lindisfarne College had two teams participate in the 57km Triple Peaks marathon event which included our boys running Mt Erin, Mt Kahuranaki and Te Mata Peak.

Our senior team which consisted of Tom Goodisson, Matt Buckeridge and Harry Brenton-Rule finished as the fastest mens team, fastest school team (for the 6^th time) and 2nd fastest overall (not including mountain bikers), with only 3 minutes behind first place in a time of 5:03:35.86.

We also had a second junior under 15 team and first time these boys have competed in this race, were Tilo King, Josef Oosthuizen and Chris Proctor who were all year 9 students. They finished with a time of 8:44:59.70 which is still extremely impressive and put them in the top 20 fastest mens run teams. Well done boys!

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

Congratulations to Sam Alexander for achieving his Silver Award.

Article added: Friday 05 March 2021