Congratulations to our junior badminton teams who travelled to Tauranga last Wednesday.
Both the boys and the girls teams successfully qualified for this finals event from the earlier tournament in Rotorua and headed to Tauranga as a Central Bay of Plenty qualified school.
It was a great day of badminton. Everyone played well with great attitudes. Both teams placed 4th (which is awesome but also heartbreakingly close to a medal) in their respective divisions. They also had incredibly close matches against teams that went on to win. So, they were right up there!
The boys were initially tied with Te Puke High School after the first round. When they did a count back, their points were identical so they flipped a coin to decide what positions the two teams would play in the semifinals. Flipped a coin, wow!! The boys narrowly missed out in qualifying for the bronze medal match by 3 points (again on count back as they won 3 and lost 3 games in that round).
Boys team
Leon Hill, Het Mistry, Ray Vuth, Jabir Chowdhury
Girls team
Diya Patel, Vishva Patel, Mansanjh Kaur, Payton Rambaud
Well done to Nicole Wang our senior player who headed along to help coach the teams.
Also, thank you to Eliza and Kane for driving the van and looking after the team for the day. You made this experience possible for the players.
