Local Sport

Sevens students off to nationals

Twenty-five high school sevens teams battled it out for a spot in the national final at the Waikato Secondary Schools Condor Sevens qualifying tournament at Memorial Park in Cambridge last week. The event on Wednesday…

Local rider toughest of the tough

Cambridge rider Dylan Yearbury has taken out the annual Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro, proving once again that he is the toughest of the tough in a back-to-back win of the gruelling event. The third annual…

Ross expects tight V8s battle

It will be a measured approach to the BNT V8s season for Nick Ross and his Total Lubricants Nissan Altima when the championship gets underway at Pukekohe today. It will be the Cambridge driver and…

Sports kit spring clean out urged

Poppy Wortman caught up with Hannah Newlands recently on a new initiative which helps to put sports items and active wear to good use… Hannah Newlands is calling for locals to donate their surplus sports kit…

Centenary celebrations for Cambridge Athletics Club

The Cambridge Athletics Club celebrated a special birthday recently, marking one hundred years since the club began on October 17, 1918. The evening on Wednesday last week also doubled as the first club night of the…

Speedsters among nation’s best

Cambridge Primary School now boasts four podium-finishing motocross riders including two national champions following the New Zealand Mini Motocross Championships. Over 200 riders from Whangarei to Invercargill travelled to the October 6 – 7 competition…

Waikato finish fifth in Roller Mills

St Peter’s School played host to 250 rugby players from around the North Island recently when the NRM Northern Roller Mills rugby tournament was held from October 6 – 13. The Waikato team, which included…

Massive medal haul from Nationals

A team of 27 swimmers from the St Peter’s Swim Club brought home fantastic results from the 2018 New Zealand Short Course Championships – so good that open division swimmers Paige Flynn and Vanessa Ouwerhand…

50 squash players battle for Calcutta Cup

Cambridge Racquets Club ran the second annual Calcutta Cup squash competition earlier this month. Ultimately it was Cambridge’s Gerard Whittaker who claimed the Calcutta Cup over Te Awamutu’s Wade Bell after a very a hard-fought…

Cyclists contest Oceania Champs

Five local cyclists competed in the Oceania Championships in Adelaide last week, with up-and-coming young cyclists Mya Anderson, Reuben Webster and Patrick Clancy joining Rushlee Buchanan and Ellesse Andrews on the 40-strong New Zealand squad….

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