2 titles at North Island Age Group Champs

Squash is certainly showing great support and strength in the north with 22 juniors heading down to Rotorua last weekend for the North Island Junior Age Group Championships.  This tournament drew the highest number of players for more than 5 years, over 190 players were participating from Under 19 to Under 11 age groups.

Six of these Northland juniors are in the top 20 of the North Island and 14 players are in the top 10 for their age groups.

Congratulations to Tyler Ranger,formerly from Rotorua and now playing for Northland, who was seeded 4th for the under 19 boys and took out the championship with a huge five setter semi final against top seed Matthew Lucente and then a straight 3 set win in the final against Mitchell Kempton from Southland.

Congratulations also to Freddie Jameson and Flynn Venmore who are fellow Manaia club members and also cousins.  They played off for the under 11 boys championship. Congratulations to Freddie who took out the championship with Flynn runner up.

Kamo’s Chelsea Trail did very well to place third in the under 11 girls Championship, Chelsea had a close 5 set battle in her semi final against Maia Smales from Auckland and went on to win her 3/4^th play off.

The other outstanding result for the weekend was Devlin Gurr who was seeded 18th for the under 15 boys and improved his seeding to 9th with some great battles against higher graded players.

Other top 10 finishes were:

Paddy Ferguson – 5^th Under 11 Boys

Hayden Turner – 10^th Under 11 Boys

Justin – 9^th Under 13 Boys

Maz  Saunders 10^th Under 13 Boys

Jacob Turner – 5th Under 13 Boys Div 1

Riley-Jack Vette-Blomquist – 8^th Under 15 Boys

Brad Moselen – 2^nd Under 17 Div 1

Shae Ferguson – 9^th Under 13 Girls

PippaSaunders – 2^nd Under 15 Girls Div 1

Annmarie Holst – 7^th Under 17 Girls

Mackenzie Johnson – 7^th Under 19 Girls

Sian Duggan – 8^th Under 19 Girls