CRICKET

Intermediate 2^nd XI cricket finished the season with a well-deserved win against Hereworth.

We made 100 runs with Ethan du Toit and Thomas Griffiths top scoring.

After 10 overs Hereworth were on 45 runs and the match was 'getting interesting'.  Tight fielding and regular wickets falling meant they were restricted to them to 65.  Everyone bowled really well, with the 'catch of the season' being taken by Navjot Thiara - a regulation gully catch which was moving quickly. A great positive season. With only one loss suffered.

The Colts A had their final game of the season on Saturday 27^th March completing a comfortable seven wicket win against Napier Boys' High School. Gordy Chatfield took 3 wickets in Napier's total of 83. Jack Sunckell made a fluent 35no and Oscar McDonald a brutal 32no to secure the win.

FUTSAL

During summer tournament week Futsal went down to play in Wellington.  This was the team’s first time down at NZSS FUTSAL champs at an amazing arena.  The boys came up against some very good opposition but did themselves and the school proud.

The boys have learnt a lot from this experience and this will serve well for the up coming football season as well as the term four futsal season.

The results were

Game 1

Lindisfarne won 3-0 vs St Pats Silverstream

Speers 3 goals

Game 2 

Lindisfarne lost 3-5 to St Bedes 

Koll 2 goals
D. Barker 1 goal

Games 3

Lindisfarne lost 3-7 vs Wellington College

Koll, Speers and Pike got 1 goal each

Game 4 

Lindisfarne drew 0-0 with St Thomas

Lindisfarne drew 2-2 vs Wellington High

Speers 2 goals

Lindisfarne won 2-1 vs John Paul

Huxford and Speers 1 goal each

GOLF

The golf team of Jared Lines, Lachie Christie, Harry Pike and James Ericksen played Napier BHS in a fixture to replace the usual Scots College match on Monday 29^th March.  The team won a close contest 2.5-1.5 with Lines and Christie having wins and Pike a half. Ericksen fought hard to come back from a large deficit to narrowly win. 

TENNIS

In the recent Derek Ward Tennis tournament, Hunter Every was awarded Top Senior Secondary School Tennis player in a HB School year 11, 12 or 13 receiving the Derek Ward trophy

VOLLEYABLL

Our Senior A Red team was a bit depleted this week due to production, but we beat Karamu 2-0 and lost to Napier Boys High 2-0 – first loss of the season but we should still be into the finals in top position next week to meet our goal of winning Division 2.

Senior white had their first win against Karamu on Wednesday!

BLOKARTING

9 teams entered the competition on Thursday 25^th and Friday 26^th.  Our team consisted of Beau and Carl Marshall and Flinn Balchin.  Lindisfarne placed 3^rd which is a really good achievement.

ATHLETICS

EAST COASH NORTH ISLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPS

Our Lindisfarne team performed outstandingly well at the recent ECNI Championships held in hot conditions at the Regional Sports Park.  A team of 14 athletes competed in a variety of events with 10 titles being won in total and resulted in 8 athletes gaining selection to represent the ECNI region at North Island Champs in Hamilton in April.  These titles were as follows:

Taylor Topp                      Senior 200m

Callum O’Keefe             Intermediate 800m

Charlie Roil                      Open 300m Hurdles

Tom Goodisson              Open 2000m Steeplechase

Jonty Roil                           Intermediate Discus

Matt McKendry             Junior 100m Hurdles

Kingstone Rabbitte     Junior Triple Jump

Senior Boys                      4x100m Relay

Open                                    4x400m Relay.

In addition to these results there were 17 additional placings making it a very successful day for the Lindisfarne athletes.

Athletes to gain NI Champs selection included:

Taylor Topp

Grayson Hesketh

Charlie Roil

Tom Goodisson

Tino Savea

Callum O’Keeffe

Jonty Roil

Hadley McDougall

SWIMMING

HAWKE'S BAY SECONDARY SCHOOL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021

The Lindisfarne retained their title as top swimming school in the region.  For the second consecutive year the Lindisfarne team was the top school overall by 370 points with Napier GHS second on 335 and Napier BHS third on 301.

Highlight of the event would have to be the dominance in the senior relays with the A team of Cole Searle, Marcus Sisam, Marshall Soanes and Jake Stephens evident in both the freestyle and medley relays.  The B team gained a third and a fourth placing in these.  In the juniors the A team were second in both the freestyle and medley relays with the B team third and fourth.

Swimmers to win events included:

Marcus Sisam:                Boys 14,15 years 50m freestyle

Marshall Soanes:          Boys 16 years and over 50m freestyle

Zach Ebbett-Watt:      Boys 14,15 years 50m Backstroke

Jake Stephens:               Boys 16 and over 50m Butterfly.

Many placings by other swimmers were also gained in a variety of events

Young swimmers, Matt McKendry, Ben Gray, Liam Monteith, Charlie Sisam and Henry Bull all acquitted themselves very well and gained many placings in their events.

A very successful evenings swimming sees the Aquahawks Trophy remain in Lindisfarnes cabinet.

HAWKE'S BAY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021

It was a very proud but small team that represented Lindisfarne at the HB Intermediate Schools Swimming Champs, and with very impressive results.  The Year 7 boys finished second overall and the Year 8’s third but the fact that their were only 8 swimmers in total meant it was always going to be hard to compete overall with the bigger schools.

The relays whilst being the most exciting proved to be excellent for the Lindisfarne team with the Year 8 team of Beck Allen, Elliott Wickham, Will Worthington-Thin and Ashton Taylor winning both the medley and freestyle relays.  The year 7’s, comprising Sam Skidmore, Monte Douglas, Liam McEntee and Ollie Fritchley gained second in the medley and first in the freestyle relays.

The best individual results were:

Sam Skidmore:                       1^st 50m freestyle

                                                         1^st 50m backstroke

                                                         1^st 50m butterfly

                                                         2^nd 100m freestyle

Will Worthington-Thin:     1^st 100m Individual Medley

                                                          1^st 50m backstroke

                                                          2^nd 50m butterfly

                                                          3^rd 100m freestyle.

A very successful evening of swimming.

SCOTS EXCHANGE

TENNIS

For the first time in at least 15 years, Lindisfarne beat Scots College convincingly by 10 matches to 2 in the Tennis exchange.  Hunter Every, the captain and number 1 player, won his singles match, dropping just three games, but he and Jackson Lambert had a tough doubles match, finally winning 10-6 in the third set super tie break.  The match of the day must go to Kees Tomlinson, who came from back from a set down, and 4-2 down in the second set, to finally win 10-8 in the third set super tie break.

All the boys played very positive tennis in adverse weather conditions.

CRICKET

A vastly experienced Scots College First XI travelled to Lindisfarne College deep into March and the provincial heartland and home of the Hawke Cup. 

Scots won the toss and batted in determined fashion to 197/9 declared. Finn Reid bowled well to take three wickets in his 23 overs. Lindisfarne survived two nervous overs where the close in fieldsmen tried to cramp the batsman up. The second morning arrived and the first session was washed out. After lunch Lindisfarne failed to establish any rhythm in their innings and were dismissed for 85. Lindisfarne then fought back well through the heroics of their captain Lovepreet Padda.

Lovepreet bowled very quickly to see four Scots batsmen dismissed in as many deliveries - a double hatrick in cricket parlance. The fourth an emphatic ricking back of the off stump. Lindisfarne continued to frustrate the Scots innings into the next morning and dismissed the visitors for 120, with Lovepreet Padda taking 6/25 off eleven overs and Sam Cassidy three wickets. Again Lindisfarne failed to establish partnerships and floundered to 114, a loss by 121 runs.

RUGBY

After our trial on Wednesday, March 17 we named a 1^st XV squad of 22 to play PNBHS on March 27.  

1^st XV vs PNBHS we led at halftime 15-7 after two late first half tries to Tino Savea and Sean Lagikula.  Monte Timu kicked a conversion and a penalty in the first half. PNBHS went on the attack early in the second half, scoring 3 tries and had control of the game 15-28 before Lindisfarne finished with a late surge. We scored two further tries to Monte Timu and Lanson Randell. Final score 25-28. We had attacked well during the game but our set piece defence and kick chase let us down at times.

1^st XV vs GBHS we dominated the visitors from the start, scoring a good try to Grayson Hesketh in the opening play of the game. We again controlled the ball well on attack and were getting very good front foot ball from our forward runners. We scored two further tries before halftime (Kingshouse Tupuola and Tino Savea) to lead 27-0 at the break. Our defence was much better during this game. Tino scored two more tries in the second half to go with a fine team try, finished brilliantly by Tuawhio Porima. Final score 44-5.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

Congratulations to Dylan Barker for his achieving his Duke of Ed Silver Award.

Article added: Thursday 08 April 2021