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40 — Botany and Ormiston Times, Thursday, December 1, 2016
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Sport results Tennis
Caro Bowl – Auckland’s premier inter-club tennis competition for adults Semi-finals and 5th8th playoff games
➤➤Semi-final 1 (November 18): Sunnyhills Tennis Club (women) lost to Royal Oak 2-6 at Koru Tennis Club in Pakuranga Heights. ➤➤5th-8th playoff 2 (November 18): Bucklands Beach Tennis Club (women) beat Parnell 2 8-0 at Bucklands Beach Tennis Club. ➤➤Semi-final 2 (November 25): Cockle
Croquet
Bay Tennis Club (men) lost to Blockhouse Bay 1 0-8 at Cockle Bay Tennis Club. ➤➤5th and 6th playoff (November 25): Bucklands Beach Tennis Club (women) lost to Kohimarama 2-6 at Kohimarama. BBTC finish sixth.
Upcoming games:
➤➤3rd and 4th playoff (Friday, December 2, 6pm): Cockle Bay Tennis Club (men) vs. Parnell at Cockle Bay Tennis Club. ➤➤3rd and 4th playoff (Friday, December 2, 6pm): Sunnyhills Tennis Club (women) vs. Pompallier at Koru Tennis Club in Pakuranga Heights.
The Auckland Croquet Singles Championships were held at the Lloyd Elsmore Park lawns at the weekend. Players from all Auckland and Counties Manukau clubs, as well as some from as far away as Tauranga and Northland, took part in the competition. It was an especially successful event for Pakuranga Croquet Club, with Kurt Warn winning the premier division, Matthew Chen winning the intermediate division and Jeff Sunderland finishing runner up in the junior division.
Another gold medal for Brazilian jiu-jitsu star F
or the second year in a row, local Brazilian jiujitsu star Brandon Meyer has returned home from the Pan Pacific Kids Brazilian JiuJitsu Championships with a gold medal. After months of hard training, the 12-year-old travelled to Melbourne last month to compete in the biggest Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) competition in Australasia. Of the 200 competitors at the event, Brandon – competing in the 40-44kg, white to range belt – was one of only two Kiwis to win a division. The Year Seven student from Farm Cove Intermediate came out on top after three difficult four minute matches, including one against his Kiwi training partner Corban Glew, who picked up a bronze medal. “In each match my goal was to get my opponent to the ground, pass his legs, hold him down and submit him,” Brandon said, reflecting on
Brandon Meyer (second from left) on the podium at the Pan Pacific Kids Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships in Melbourne last month. Photo supplied
his winning performance and second Pan Pac title. For the first time ever, the Pan Pacific Kids Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships was rated as an international event. Brandon attributes a lot of his success to his coach and
newly-promoted black belt, Van Robertson, and his regular training partner Corban Glew, as well as his fellow fighters at the Auckland MMA gym in Pakuranga. He was recently promoted to a higher belt and aims to compete at the 2017 Kids
World BJJ Championships in the United States. The next 12 months will be dedicated to training and fundraising as Brandon strives to meet this goal, and he hopes to secure some sponsorship to help get him there.
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