Good response to school squash

Organiser Nicola Herrick was delighted with the response to the Wairarapa secondary schools squash tournament.

Herrick started as sports co-ordinator at Wairarapa College at the beginning of the year and more than 40 students showed an interest in representing the school in squash.

Herrick decided to organise a tournament, with Rathkeale College, Chanel College and Makoura College also entering teams.

With Shoe Clinic as the major sponsor, the open grades were played best-of-five-games and there were three players in each team while the division two and three boys' grades were run under a business house format.

Results: Boys open, Championship: Wairarapa College (Dean Gray, Mac McKenna and Roy van Barneveld) 1, Wairarapa College (Ryan Storey, Mac Hepburn, Jared Hourigan) 2. Plate: Chanel College (Ben Bailey, Andrew Miles, Matthew Hymers) 1.

Girls open, Championship: Wairarapa College (Jess Childs, Jess Stringer, Kim Flower) 1, Wairarapa College (Storm Mckenna, Deanna Forsyth, Alexia Wales) 2. Plate: Wairarapa College (Alicia Wilkinson, Rebecca Hourigan, Maddie Davis) 3.

Division two boys, Championship: Wairarapa College (Mike Udy, Alex Davis, Corban Jones) 1, Wairarapa College (Liam Goldsworthy, Landon Palmer, Brodie Palmer) 2.

Division three boys, Championship: Chanel College (William Lennox, Zach Wakefield, Kenta McKelvey) 1, Wairarapa College (Luke Cassidy, Jeremy Smith, Arnon Tapp and Lincoln Knowles) 2.