Cambridge High School’s top under 15 hockey teams finished their season on a high, winning Waikato Hockey Association’s premier girls’ and boys’ leagues.
Flynn Jenkins was top scorer for Cambridge High’s U15 boys’ team this season, notching up nine goals.
Both teams played their last games of the season at Gallagher Hockey Centre in Hamilton last week and both met St Peter’s Cambridge in their finals.
The Cambridge High U15 boys played in a two-match final series, the first held at St Peter’s on August 17. They won 5-2, with Flynn Jenkins notching up four goals and Oliver Lee also scoring.
The second final at Gallagher Hockey Centre was much closer but Cambridge High took it out 2-1, with goals to Joshua Runciman and Hadlee MacPherson.
The three goals scored against them in the two finals were the only goals the Cambridge High U15 boys had conceded throughout the Waikato Secondary School winter competition.
Hadlee MacPherson, who scored in Cambridge High U15 boys’ final match against St Peter’s Cambridge, has a crack at goal.
The team won Waikato Hockey Association’s Hemi Webber Cup.
Top scorer for the season was Flynn Jenkins, with nine goals.
Cambridge High’s U15 girls’ Gold team beat St Peter’s 3-1 to claim the Jo Webber Cup.
Nicola D’Ath was the season’s top scorer, with 19 goals.
Both U15 teams were coached and manged by Mark Wood and Karen Hills.
Cambridge High’s teacher in charge of hockey, Glenys Bichan, said it had been a great winter.
“Out of nine teams we fielded, five made the top four in the Waikato competition, including both our 1st XI teams for the first time,” she said.
“Our boys’ 1st XI is playing in Tauranga this week for the Rankin Cup – the premier New Zealand-wide schoolboys’ hockey tournament – for the second year running.
“The 1st XI girls are going to Whangarei to compete in the third-tier Chica Gilmer Trophy with the hope of gaining promotion to the Federation Cup in 2025.
Cambridge High School U15 boys’ gold hockey player Heath Rogerson streaks up the turf during the team’s final match against St Peter’s Cambridge at Gallagher Hockey Centre.
