Local Sport

Summer football in full swing

The winter season may have finished but Cambridge football fans have plenty of action to watch as summer nears. About 400 spectators saw a national league double header at John Kerkhof Park last Sunday when…

Lacrosse team wins first game

The newly-formed Leamington Rugby Sports Club Men’s Lacrosse team has won their first game of the season, beating the Hamilton Devils 12-6. The game on November 14 started strongly with midfielder Lucas Thom winning the…

Local wins Xtreme off-road series

With nothing but podium finishes throughout the season, Cambridge’s Dylan Yearbury set a benchmark this year that was always going to be hard to beat. Two runner-up results and a third-place finish meant that, even…

Weekend of learning for Davison

It was a weekend of learning for 13-year-old Toyota 86 driver Connor Davison of Cambridge, following the first round of the championship at Pukekohe over the first weekend of November. Connor’s weekend was hampered early…

Smail NZ amateur golf champ

A Tamahere local and former St Peter’s student has made the biggest achievement in his young golfing career winning the 2018 New Zealand Amateur Golf Championship. Twenty-year-old Charlie Smail secured the title after defeating Wellington’s…

Local youngest Kiwi ever in Mongol Derby

Year 13 St Peter’s student Elise Stables has been selected as the youngest ever New Zealander to ride in the Mongol Derby — the longest, toughest horse race in the world. Riders cover 1000km of Mongolian wilderness…

Duo a fitness inspiration

Danny and Mel Burt returned to the New Zealand Fitness Model Search over October 27 – 28, a year after they competed in the 2017 edition, and came away with even better results than expected….

CMS Athletics Day biggest yet

Cambridge Middle School held their annual school Athletics Day at the Cambridge Athletics Grounds on Vogel St for the first time this year. With the student roll at its biggest yet, the school had to…

Local claims sailing title again

Tamahere’s Isaac McHardie has claimed bragging rights over the rest of the world alongside NZ team mate William McKenzie after the pair won the 2018 Red Bull Foiling Generation World Champions in Miami over last…

Gaze grabs second win at nationals

Cambridge mountain biker Sam Gaze defended his road honours at the Criterium National Championships over the weekend with a stunning performance around the streets of Takapuna. The double under-23 world champion pushed clear for a…

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