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VOLLEYBALL Super 8 Champions 6 Years in a Row

The Super 8 competition was held in Tauranga over the last three days. In the pool play Tauranga Boys’ College beat Hastings Boys’ High, 3-1; and took all sets in the matches against Gisborne Boys’ High, 3-0; and Rotorua Boys’ High 3-0.
In the semi-final they played Hamilton Boys’ High School winning 3-0, then went onto to play Napier Boys’ High School in the final also beating them 3-0 to become the Super 8 Champs for the sixth year in a row.
Matthew Sargent-Clarke, Fergus McCool, Jeffrey Thwaites and Sonny Hirini all made the Tournament Team, and Sonny Hirini received the overall MVP. Don Thwaites has been team coach for the Super 8 for the last three years.

Results from 2nd March
TBC 1 75 Otumoetai Yr 9 36
Player of the day was Max Schroder for his awesome spikes.
TBC 2 80 TBC7 40
Player of the Day - Joseph Winstanley Good all round team performance.
TBC4 Vs MMC Boys 2 11 Vs 25 25 Vs 23 17 Vs 15
Player of the day was Thomas Reid.
TBC 6 Vs TBC 5 Score: 59 All (Draw) Player of the Day: Liam Kinzett
TBC 8 had a moral victory over Mt Maunganui 3 22-25 23-25 18-12

CANOE SLALOM

Canoe Slalom North Island Championships
Leading up to the New Zealand Secondary Schools and Open Nationals in the South Island later this term, Tauranga Boys’ College dominated this year’s North Island Canoe Slalom Championship event once again. The races were held on the Tarawera River, which runs through the Kawerau Township. This course has had some major site developments by the local council, so that spectators can view all the action along walkways and added excellent seating next to the best vantage points. One hour before the competition the course was set up by a French coach currently training our NZ elite paddlers, which includes Callum Gibb from Tauranga Boys’ College. Each paddler then has two runs in each category to record the fastest time. They must negotiate a mix of 18 upstream and down stream gates to complete the course. If they touch a gate they incur a two second penalty and if they miss the gate altogether they have 50 seconds added to their time.

This year’s course was difficult for our juniors compared to what they can expect at the Secondary Schools in Dunedin later this term and some took an untimely swim half way down the course and did not finish the race. However our more experienced paddlers reveled in the whitewater conditions to post some very quick times. With electronic timing set up, many places were settled with margins as small as 0.01 of a second and in other races the winner was well ahead of the next place getter. This was not the case with Andre Sperling, who at just 14 years old took out the hotly contested U16 K1 title by over 12 seconds and coming in just one second behind the fastest U18 K1 paddler Callum Gibb.
Dunstan High School (co-ed school from the South Island) possess the biggest threat this year at the NZ Secondary Schools Championships, with a large contingent of paddlers expected to compete in both boys and girls events. Thus it will take a huge effort for the Tauranga Boys’ College team to win the overall Top Kayaking School for a record 13th time in a row, as points are awarded for the top three places in each category for boys and girls and we only compete in the boys events.
Tauranga Boys College North Island Canoe Slalom Results
K1
U18 1st Callum Gibb 2nd Carl Whitehead
3rd Laurence Brown
U16 1st Andre Sperling 2nd Cole O’Connor Stratton
3rd Jake Cumming
U14 1st Callum Gilbert 3rd Berrick Fitzsimons
C1
U18 1st Haven Bellamy 2nd Laurence Brown
3rd Carl Whitehead
U16 1st Cole O’Connor Stratton 2nd Andre Sperling 3rd Brogan Gordon
C2
U23 U16
1st Callum Gibb/Ben Gibb (TBC old boy) 1st Andre Sperling/Cole O’Connor Stratton, 2nd Jake Cumming/Brogan Gordon
Titans Round up of Results-
Dated the week ending 8/03/10
Picture- Slalom Team Captain Haven Bellamy winning the U18 C1 category at the North Island Canoe Slalom Champs last weekend

CRICKET 1st XI

Vs Central Premiers
TBC A Carter S McCarthy R McBrydie
178 all out 45 not out 35 25
Central Premiers 98 all out C Thomas 5/8 B Hampton 2/31
Tauranga Boys’ College lost the toss and was sent into bat first. Once again, Shaun McCarthy proved he was more than capable at this level getting the innings off to a positive start. Unfortunately the middle order failed to fire and it was left up to the lower order to get the score through to a defendable total. Batting at number 8 Andrew Carter batted superbly well to top score with 45 not out.
In reply, some tight TBC bowling and fielding meant that Central could only muster 98 all out. Campbell Thomas was particularly impressive returning the figures of 5/8 off six overs. This was a pleasing result after the disappointing effort against Rotorua Boys’ High School the previous week.

2nd XI Vs Katikati College
A great result for the 2nds on Saturday upsetting competition leaders Katikati. The 2nds were missing eight regular players and were fighting an uphill battle just to field a side. However a very young team managed to bowl Katikati out for just 124. Myles Timoti and Gupreet Singh took three wickets each. We then chased down the runs with three wickets to spare.
In Sunday’s game which was a McNaughton Cup semi-final, the boys were rolled for a very modest 110. However the boys picked up their heads and in the end just lost to Central from Rotorua. Central finally won with only two wickets in hand. Shaun McCarthy took three wickets in one over to give the boys some hope.

1st XI Grade Cavaliers vs Bethlehem College
Edgbaston vs Otumoetai
TBC Edgbaston 209/7 L Yates 52 M Staite 43 M Jensen 38
Otumoetai 150/9 M Staite 3/19 M Jensen 3/18
Player of Day - Mitchell Staite
20/20 Grade
Blue vs Otumoetai
TBC Blue 143 Otumoetai 160
Black vs Bethlehem
TBC Black 39 Tony MacDonald 10 Bethlehem 160/4
Player of Day - Joe Hardy

ATHLETICS BOPSS Athletic Champs

Having qualified for the Bay of Plenty Athletics Champs by finishing in the top two in each grade of the school athletic champs thirty seven boys represented Tauranga Boys’ College at the Tauranga Domain on Wednesday 3rd March.
All boys were aiming to finish within the top three to qualify for the Waikato champs also to be held at the domain and earn the right as a school representative within athletics. Tauranga Boys’ College set the standard from the first event with Michael Sutton setting a new record for the 3000m and being backed up by Julian Oakley and Toby Cunliffe Steel to take out the first three places. This type of performance was repeated throughout the day including the Junior Boys 100m where Tauranga Boys’ College finished first, second, and third with sprinters Hamish Symes, Caleb Aperahama and
Bethlehem College TBC Cavaliers
Colts vs Reserves
TBC Colts B Pamment A Kelberg A Kumar
TBC Reserves G Bedford-Rolleston
221/8 47
183 31 24 19 lost to
185/9 77 not out
Player of Day - Grant Bedford-Rolleston
2nd XI Grade
Wanderers vs Aquinas
TBC Wanderers 190 C Fifita 51 P Carsons 41 J Langton 21
Aquinas 172 C Fifita 3/16
Player of Day - Connor Fifita
Burton McAdam. A number of boys claimed two titles including Julian Oakley, Ryan Sowry, Michael The boys played superbly with all games fiercely Sutton, Alex Colvin, Caleb Aperahama, and Burton contested. There was some excellent McAdam. The day concluded with victories in the sportsmanship displayed by the players on both junior and intermediate boys 4 x 100m relay and sides. runner up for the senior relay team.
Twenty eight boys performed well enough to qualify for the Waikato Champs to be held for the first time at the Tauranga Domain on Saturday 13th March.

SPORTS EXCHANGE KELSTON BOYS’ HIGH

Cricket
Wednesday - Win
40 Over Match TBC 203 Joe Carter 64 Tom Crawford 42 Campbell Thomas 3/25
Thursday – Win
20/20 match TBC 180 Kelston 114 Josh Dwight 76 Shaun McCarthy 50 Campbell Thomas 3/22
Tennis
Tauranga Boys’ won the exchange 13 games to three. Player of the tournament was Jakeb Scholes, an up and coming Year 10 student.
Lawn Bowls
Nine games were played on Wednesday with Tauranga Boys’ College winning 51⁄2 and Kelston Boys’ High School 31⁄2.
On Thursday, in Round One, Cameron Higgins and Alex Hume had a win, and Josh Taylor and Corey McLaughlan a loss. Taylor Duncan and Stefan McCartain scored a half. Kelston Boys’ won on the count back, 21 ends to 20.
Volleyball
Tauranga Boys’ College defeated Kelston 3-1 Kelston Boys’ High are currently undefeated in the Auckland Secondary Schools Competition.

TBC SWIMMING SPORTS

This year’s school swimming sports was the largest in recent history with over 850 boys competing and participating at Memorial Pool on Wednesday 24th February. The competitive swimmers kicked things off with the 200m open freestyle. Recognisable by the colour swim cap they were wearing, the poolside crowds were able to cheer on their house team mates.
The morning programme included both competitive and participation events. The marshalling area was a hive of activity as house leaders body marked each year 9 student as they got ready for their race. Ngata house looked like the team to beat as they were pumping through more swimmers than any other house. However, the competitive placings seemed to be mostly dominated by the familiar black and yellow caps of Halberg and Hillary. The boys finished the morning with a year 9 relay followed by a tasty BBQ before heading back to school for the afternoon.
The year 10’s arrived shortly after lunch with the house competition
still up in the air. As they worked their way through the 1 length freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke it again looked like a few of the houses had their troops revved up more than others. The day finished as it had started, with lots of energy and excitement around who would take out house honours.
A big thank you to all students and staff who participated in the running of the day. Congratulations to the winning house and individual swimming champions for 2010.
Competitive Swimmers Junior placing:
1st 2nd 3rd
Matthew Hyde Cameron Hayes Jared Skudder
Intermediate:
1st 2nd 3rd
Senior:
1st 2nd 3rd
Kabil Young Cameron Witney Hayden Halse
Blake Willamson Ryan Hayes Andrew Drummond
House Placings
1st Halberg 2nd Hillary 3rd Ngarimu 4th Ngata 5th Freyberg 6th Rutherford
403 points 345 points 322 points 317 points 283 points 243 points

ST KENT’S SUMMER SPORTS EXCHANGE

Bethlehem College 1st XI Scott White Player of the Day
2nd XI
TBC Wanderers Connor Fifita Gareth Wallace Jordi Langton
Bethlehem 2nd XI Player of the Day
20/20 Grade
TBC Blue Matthew Connor Tony
TBC Black Josh Michael Connor Player of the Day
TBC Gold Joel Little TGC Player of the Day
96/6 4/23 Sanjeev Mistry
214/4 51 54 36
195/5 Ryan Balsom
122 34 27 3/8
102 18 2 wkts 3 wkts Connor
156 36 87 Joel Little
Cricket
Sunday TBC
Monday St Kent’s

Tennis

117 St Kent’s 167 TBC
118 / 5
168 / 5 S Davey 54
Sunday provided an excellent day of tennis with several very close matches. Jacob Carey, Hamish Fox and Josh Newman picked up good wins for Tauranga Boys’ College. A tight doubles match saw St Kent’s narrowly ahead in matches after day one.
Monday continued in the same vein, with two close doubles matches. Nick Brown and Josh White combined well to take out the top doubles. In reverse singles the TBC team played with intensity, securing five of the six matches, with wins going to Brown, Carey, Fox, Newman and Sam Currie.
Overall a great result for the Tauranga squad, beating one of the countries top tennis schools nine matches to six.

CRICKET

1st XI
TBC Colts Ben Pamment Braedan Taylor
Katikati 1st XI Braedan Taylor Manpreet Singh
Player of the Day
TBC Cavaliers Myles Timoti Ben Musgrave
170 54 47
Results for 26th–28th February KRI Junior Regatta
MU 15 4x + (Men’s U15 Coxed Quad Scull) Final 2 – 1st TBC1 MU18 4x+ (Men’s U18 Coxed Quad Scull) Final 1 – 6th TBC1
Mount Maunganui College 2nd XI 138
Myles Timoti
Player of the Day
TBC Reserves Sanjeev Mistry
4/30
Myles TImoti
95 46
116 4/22 3/23

ROWING

MU16 4x+ (Men’s U16 Coxed Quad Scull) Final 2 – 1st
TBC1, 5th TBC2, 7th TBC3 Braedan Taylor MU18 4+ (Men’s U18 Coxed Four) Final 1 – 5th TBC1
163/7 66 not out 36
MU16 4+ (Men’s U16 Coxed Four) Final 2 – 3rd TBC1, 5th TBC2 MU18 1x (Men’s U18 Single Skull) Final 1 – 2nd TBC1 (Toby Earp Cunliffe-Steel)
MU17 2x (Men’s U17 Double Skull) Final 2 – 1st TBC1 MU18 2x (Men’s U18 Double Skull) Final 2 – 2nd TBC1 MU15 4+ (Men’s U15 Coxed Four) Final 2 – 6th TBC1 MU17 1x (Men’s U17 Single Scull) Final 1 – 6th TBC1 MU15 2x (Men’s U15 Double Scull) Final 1 – 6th TBC1

VOLLEYBALL

Senior A
Thursday Night Competition
We played Otumoetai A and won 3-0. We had a slow start but picked it up as the game went on.
BOP Secondary School Competition
Saturday – In the first game we played Western Heights High School and had a convincing win over them 3-0, with one set keeping them under 10 points.
The second game was against Trident A, our toughest opponents in the tournament. At the end of the third set, we were up 2-1. We had a match point in the 4th set at 24-22, and ended up losing 26-24. We then unfortunately lost the 5th set, losing the game. A very disappointing result, as we were so close to winning but something which we can learn a lot from.
Sunday – we played Otumoetai A and Trident B, winning both 3-0, and finishing our first preliminary
tournament on a high. Tauranga Boys’ College 6
Tauranga Boys’ College 6 played against a mixed team of other Tauranga Boy’s College players, winning a set each with the final score 63-58 to TBC6. Not a bad game from our boys considering only three players have really played before (Liam Kinzett, Tyler Jones and Anthony Riley).
Player of the day was Tyler Jones
Tauranga Boys’ College 1
TBC 1 played Mount Maunganui College 1 in the Tuesday night competition last week. The boys started off a bit rusty but by the second set were playing well with good setting and spiking. The final score was 64-52 to us. The player of the day was Mac Christie as he spiked and chased the ball well.
Tauranga Boys’ College 2
Opponents were Tauranga Boys’ College 3. The result was a win to TBC2, 63 -56. Player of the Day went to Caleb Simmons.
Good serving by Burton McAdam and Joseph Winstanley and some good kills by Brad Fullerton and Caleb Simmons.

CANOE SLALOM

World Ranking and Oceania Championships Australia
Three of our students travelled to the Penrith Olympic course in Sydney over the last couple of weeks to compete against the worlds best kayakers. Callum Gibb was placed 49th and Carl Whitehead 67th in the Men’s Open K1 with Haven Bellamy 32nd in the Men’s Open C1.
As part of the competition the Oceania Championships had the best of the New Zealand and Australian Under 18 paddlers compete against each other. The NZ juniors showed their potential with Callum Gibb heading off all the Australian juniors to win the K1 with Carl Whitehead in 4th and Haven Bellamy winning the C1 event.
Bay of Plenty Canoe Slalom Champs
This took place on the Kaituna River where our College paddlers moved another step closer to the North Island and National events later this term. Tauranga Boys’ College paddlers were out in force once again showing how difficult it is for other schools to have paddlers with the ability to enter at this level. The dreaded “Shoot” rapid half way down the course was again the best place to watch the carnage as paddlers were thrown around like rag dolls in the current and unpredictable boils surging up without warning. Junior coach Paul Ferris and teacher-in- charge of kayaking at TBC Rob Sperling were busy all day as rescue boaters for those paddlers who could not handle the conditions.
The main Tauranga Boys’ College results were: points.
K1 U18 K1 U16 K1 U14 C1 U18 C1 U16 C2 U18
1st Carl Whitehead Other boys from the college have completed a 2nd Callum Gibb Mountain Safety Council Course in top-rope, abseil 3rd Laurence Brown and group safety. This will lead to trainings for the
Junior and Senior secondary schools teams being 1st Andre Sperling able to be held at the rock wall in Gym 2 this year.
(pictured page 3)
2nd Regan August
1st, Callum Gilbert 2nd Connor Jones 3rd Blake O’Loughlin
1st Haven Bellamy 2nd Carl Whitehead 3rd Jason Wood
1st Cole O’Conner 2nd Andre Sperling 3rd Jake Cumming
1st Carl Whitehead/Callum Gibb
2nd Haven Bellamy/Laurence Brown
3rd Andre Sperling/Cole O'Connor Stratton
We are looking forward to knocking Tauranga Girls’ College of the top of the podium this year, a position they have dominated for the last few years.

TRIATHLON

Our triathletes have been competing few weeks at the Bay Champs and the Waikato Champs. The Waikato’s are an opportunity for the boys to familiarise themselves with the course that is used for the upcoming Nationals at Lake Karipiro.
Results for Waikato Champs:
Under 19’s Patrick Burrows 2nd Hayden Moorhouse 3rd
Under 17’s Niklas Ansorge 4th

ROCK CLIMBING

The competition bouldering series has kicked off with an event held in Waitomo. For those of you who don’t know much about climbing ‘Bouldering’ refers to climbing relatively low climbs (

CRICKET 1st XI

Batting first Tauranga Boys’ College put together a formidable 321/5 from their 50 overs. A rapid opening stand of 59 from youngster Shaun McCarthy and Joe Carter got the innings off to a great start. Carter played a magnificent innings and recorded his first century for the 1st XI in scoring 102. Gareth Osmond (43), Nick Evemy (38) and Brett Hampton (33) all featured in healthy partnerships and the TBC innings maintained the early tempo set in the opening stand.

In reply Te Puke were struggling at 60/4 before a fruitful fifth wicket stand of 85 got them back on track. Brett Hampton ended with the figures of 3/47 from 10, Sean Davey 2/25 off 8 and man-of-the- match Joe Carter chimed in with 2/8 off 3 overs. Te Puke were never in the hunt and were dismissed for 178.

An excellent all-round performance from the TBC 1st XI.

1st XI Grade
Otumoetai Braedan Taylor
TBC Colts Braden Taylor Kamaldeep Singh
95 4/24 lost to
2nd XI Grade
TBC Special XI Aaron McNabb Anthony Jordan
Miles Blumson defeated TBC Edgbaston Joe Roberts
TBC Lords Oliver Hoare Caleb Aperahama
TBC Wanderers Paddy Carsons Gareth Wallace
217/6 50 30 50
135 36
136 61 not out 3/26 lost to
137/1 33 not out 47 not out

Results from the New Zealand Rowing Championships held at Karapiro last week:

U19 4+ 6th Simon Crane, Kallan Jones, Dirk
Driessen, Toby Cunliffe-Steele, cox Max Clout
MN8+ 8th Daniel Bridgwater, Tom Wright, Sheldon
Noyce, Jackson Pettit, Rob Wynyard, Cody Pettit, Josh Spargo, Max Clout, cox Simon Reid.

VOLLEYBALL Senior A

We had a convincing win over Matamata A 25-17, 25-16, 25-14. We all had a good game and played well as a team. Hiki Ngata was outstanding with his jump topspin serving and his first roof block on senior nets.

ATHLETICS TBC School Athletics 2010

Junior Boys 1st Caleb Aperahama 2nd= Hamish Symes /Burton McAdam
Intermediate Boys
1st 2nd 3rd
Alex Colvin Michael Sutton Lewis Naylor
Senior Boys 1st Julian Oakley
2nd= Ryan Sowry / Jonathan Morton

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Beach Volleyball

Last weekend 30 boys boarded a bus bound for Gisborne and the NZSS Beach Volleyball champs. Saturday provided testing conditions with strong winds and dust blowing down the junior boys courts. At the end of pool play TBC had four teams in the quarter finals. Congratulations to Connor Bell /Justin Sargent-Clarke and Matthew Kilpatrick/ Burton McAdam who won their quarter finals to advance to the semis.
Connor and Justin played the Westlake Boys’ High School duo and in a tough fought match went down. Mat and Burt played the Otumoetai duo of Clague and Gilling and in a tight match came out the victors.
The final versus Westlake Boys’ High School was won by Burt and Mat in two sets. A fantastic result and their first NZ title.
In the senior event TBC managed to get three teams into the quarter finals. In one quarter final Matt Sargent-Clarke/Jeff Thwaites defeated George McAdam/Mitch Zandstra and in another quarter final Sonny Hirini/Jared Rona defeated Otumoetai.
In the semi finals Jeff and Matt lost a tight three setter to Orewa College and Sonny and Jared won a great three setter against the Trident team that contained two NZL players.
The final was a point for point battle and strong serving by Sonny and a great side-out game by Jared saw them finally dominate the 3rd set and take out the NZSS Senior Title. Needless to say the bus ride home was a great trip.

CRICKET 1st XI

Whakatane United batting first put together 193. R McBrydie 2/20 S Sievwright 3/23
In reply TBC could only muster 120. S Sievwright 33, R McBrydie 18.

2nd XI

The boys had two great wins in the weekend. Firstly on Saturday in a Baywide club match against Albion Samra, the boys batted first and made an average 170 runs all out. Most of the team chipped in with scores of twenty and thirty. They then managed to roll Albion for a poultry 36 runs. Some good swing bowling from Tommy Clout and Morgan Bidois had the opposition in trouble early. Nick Leggett then finished them off taking the last two wickets in his only over of the day. It was a fantastic effort with rain constantly threatening to take the game away from us.
Sunday saw us playing in our final pool match of the McNaughton trophy. With a comprehensive win over last years winners Cadets, the boys wanted to prove it was no fluke. Bowling Mount out for 120 was half the job done. Again wickets were shared around, however Nick Leggett was the pick of the bowlers finishing with figures of 4–14 off his max eight overs.
Shaun McCarthy and Gurpreet Singh then took control with the bat and chased down the meagre total with seven wickets to spare. McCarthy ended up with 64 not-out, while Singh had his second 31 not-out in as many weeks. The boys are now through to the semi-finals that will be played at the start of March.
The 2nd XI are unbeaten this year.
Titans Round up of Results- Dated the week ending 15/02/10

SURF LIFESAVING

Richard Murray, Dan Hooker, Blake Williamson and Sam Shergold made selection for the BOP U19 Representative Surf Lifesaving Team, (total of 10 athletes make up each team - five male and five female).
The 2010 Lion Foundation Championship was held at Mt Maunganui Main Beach on 13th and 14th February . This team showed extreme talent and won the championship over the other New Zealand districts during this two-day event - awesome!

ROWING

The results from the Head of Harbour Regatta 900m course held at Lake Pupuke recently were:
U18 4x U18 4+ Both U182xs U18 1x
4th
2nd
1st in their divisions 2nd

During 2010 Students will be able to use the Google set of apps to access their emails and documents

The benefits of this change are significant. It will allow students and staff to use the powerful and constantly improving tools that Google provides:

Communication and organisation will be significantly improved through Gmail and Google Calendar. It will facilitate better collaboration and access through the use of Google Docs. Google Sites will be available for Sports, Arts, Groups and Teams within the school to have their own website. Google Groups is the latest tool to be added to the Google Apps set of tools and it is expected that more services will be added in the future.