Records are made to be broken and Napier Technical Old Boys have smashed one that stood for more than a century in Hawke's Bay.
"That was the fifth time we've won it in a row, something that was done 112 years ago," NTOB coach Dale Smidt said after the Big Barrel-sponsored team beat Ruahine Motors Central Hawke's Bay by seven wickets in round nine of the MJF Shrimpton Memorial Cup 50-over competition at Ongaonga on Saturday.
Smidt said the historic occasion wasn't lost on the Texans who had focused on it all summer, after claiming the T20 crown the previous weekend.
Also for the record, NTOB have clinched the Challenge Cup nine times in the past decade, only losing it in 2011.
In 1905 a team called United claimed that feat but little is known about whether they hailed from Hastings or Napier although their archrivals were Scinde, of Napier, which is synonymous with Napier Boys' High School as well as darts, soccer and hockey teams.