Local Sport

Lakeview Archers bring home gold

Five people from Lakeview Archers in Horahora attended the World Field Archery Championships earlier this month, bringing home three of the New Zealand team’s four gold medals. Local archers Christine Finnegan (Veteran Women’s Bowhunter Recurve),…

Trout comp wraps up

The Kilwell Lower Waikato river trout contest was a popular family event again this year, with the eight-day long contest attracting 55 keen, experienced anglers from Cambridge to Te Kauwhata, well up on the previous…

Cycle team enjoying local support

The GD Pringle/Spoken Cycles team has received a boost from Cambridge businesses to support the local elite cyclists in their racing campaign over the coming months. Windsor Nissan Cambridge has (temporarily) gifted the team with…

Relay for Life at CHS

Relay for Life was back at Cambridge High School last week even bigger and better than before. The Cancer Society fundraiser used to run at the school each year in conjunction with the national event…

Sevens students off to nationals

Twenty-five high school sevens teams battled it out for a spot in the national final at the Waikato Secondary Schools Condor Sevens qualifying tournament at Memorial Park in Cambridge last week. The event on Wednesday…

Local rider toughest of the tough

Cambridge rider Dylan Yearbury has taken out the annual Husqvarna Hard Adventure Enduro, proving once again that he is the toughest of the tough in a back-to-back win of the gruelling event. The third annual…

Ross expects tight V8s battle

It will be a measured approach to the BNT V8s season for Nick Ross and his Total Lubricants Nissan Altima when the championship gets underway at Pukekohe today. It will be the Cambridge driver and…

Sports kit spring clean out urged

Poppy Wortman caught up with Hannah Newlands recently on a new initiative which helps to put sports items and active wear to good use… Hannah Newlands is calling for locals to donate their surplus sports kit…

Centenary celebrations for Cambridge Athletics Club

The Cambridge Athletics Club celebrated a special birthday recently, marking one hundred years since the club began on October 17, 1918. The evening on Wednesday last week also doubled as the first club night of the…

Speedsters among nation’s best

Cambridge Primary School now boasts four podium-finishing motocross riders including two national champions following the New Zealand Mini Motocross Championships. Over 200 riders from Whangarei to Invercargill travelled to the October 6 – 7 competition…

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