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Written by Lincoln Jefferson

17 March 2011

Future Black Caps take Ngati Otara Park by Storm!
by Lincoln Jefferson Primary Sport.

300 children from Otara Primary Schools took part in the first Cricket Kiwi 8's competiton held at Ngati Otara Park.

The day was organised by The John Walker "Find Your Field of Dreams" Foundation Primary Sport Programme with support from Auckland Cricket.

Kiwi 8's is an Auckland wide modified format of cricket which is being played throughout primary schools this year.

Primary Sport with the support of the coaches and Auckland Cricket selected a tournament team for both girls and boys section.

In the boys section Bairds Mainfreight narrolwy beat St.John's and in the girls Yendarra kept their nerve to beat a well organised Mayfield Girls team.

Check out the latest photos from the day on the CMS photo gallery.

Results for 2011 Otara Cricket below.

Otara Sport Cluster Boys Cricket Competition 2011

1st Bairds Mainfreight-BMPS
2nd St.John The Evangelist of Otara
3rd Flat Bush
4th Mayfield
5th Yendarra
6th Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate-SEHC
7th East Tamaki
8th Redoubt North
9th Wymondley Road
10th Dawson
11th Rongomai
12th Chapel Downs

Otara Sport Cluster Girls Cricket Competition 2011

1st Yendarra
2nd Mayfield
3rd Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate-SEHC
4th Wymondley Road
5th Redoubt North
6th Dawson
7th St.John The Evangelist of Otara
8th Bairds Mainfreight-BMPS
9th Rongomai
10th East Tamaki

Holy Cross and Papatoetoe North dominate Primary School Sports
By Lincoln Jefferson-Primary Sport

A wonderful day of sport saw aproximately 300 children take part in the Papatoetoe Sport Cluster Term one events.

All nine schools took part both at cricket and playball.

The sports were hosted at three different venues, Papatoetoe Sports Centre, Kingsford School and Kohuora Park.

The partnership on the day included Auckland Cricket, MILO, Papatoetoe Sport Centre, Papatoetoe Cricket and The John Walker "Find Your Field of Dreams" Foundation Primary Sport coaches.

The events were extremely well attended by parents, family and teachers.

Holy Cross were firing on all cylinders in the boys cricket and swept all before them.

This also included an extremely taleted Papatoetoe Central side whom they beat in the first and second place match.

Papatoetoe North won both the girls and the boys playball comeptitions. Playball is a modifed version of softball especially created by the cluster.

Below are the results.

Thank you to all those involved in the day.

Papatoetoe 2011 Boys Cricket Final Standings

Venue: Papatoetoe Sports Centre

1st Holy Cross
2nd Papatoetoe Central A
3rd Papatoetoe East
4th Papatoetoe North
5th Kingsford
6th Puhinui
7th Papatoetoe South
8th Papatoetoe West
9th Papatoetoe Central B
10th SDA

Papatoetoe 2011 Playball Girls Final Standings

Venue: Kohuora Park

1st Papatoetoe North
2nd Papatoetoe West
3rd Papatoetoe East

Papatoetoe 2011 Playball Boys Final Standings

1st Papatoetoe North
2nd Holy Cross
3rd Puhinui

Holy Cross Swim to Success-Papatoetoe Cluster Swimming Results-By Lincoln Jefferson

Holy Cross came first in the annual Papatoetoe Primary Schools Swimming competition.
Second place went to Puhinui with Papatoetoe Central finishing third.

The event was held at the Papatoetoe Centennial Pools.

http://www.manukauleisure.co.nz/papatoetoe-centennial-pools/
Thank you to Papatoetoe North School and in particular Barry Johnston for organising the event.
Thank you also for MILO for supporting the event.

Black Stick takes time out to coach Papatoetoe East Kids
by Lincoln Jefferson Primary Sport

Female Hockey Black Stick Samantha Harrison, took time out of her busy schedule to coach children from Papatoetoe East School.

The John Walker "Find Your Field of Dreams" Foundation Primary Sport Programme with the support of Southern Districts Hockey Club and Papatoetoe Sports Centre organised the event.

One hundred Year 5 children took part in eight different sports.

In the morning the children tried their skills at Aussie Rules, Hockey, Cricket and Futsal. In the afternoon it was the turn of bowls, european handball, Ki o rahi and rugby tag.

One teacher was beaming with the event "The best part of the day has been the children that do not usually take part did! that was really encouraging".

For photos of the event, please click on the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/primary_sport_2010/sets/72157626089266459/

We would like to thank the following organisations for their support and partnership in the event:

Papatoetoe Sports Centre-Andrew Brookland
http://www.pscct.co.nz/
Papatoetoe Bowls Club
AFLNZ-Kiwikick Programme
http://www.nzafl.co.nz/
Southern Districts Hockey Club-Rick Child
Samantha Harrison
HOP-Jamie T George
http://www.hop.org.nz/
Primary Sport Coaches:Danny Green, Renee Mouat,Wilz Puiri, Benji Puiri, Alex T, Selina Crosby,Kurt McDonald. Talia Tahana and Bryan Marsh
Uniqe Catering

TERM 1 2011 PRIMARY SPORT NEWS
Howzat!- Kiwi 8’s New cricket competition set to take Auckland by storm.

The John Walker “Find Your Field of Dreams” Foundation Primary Sport programme and Auckland Cricket are running a new format of cricket for schools in Otara and Papatoetoe.

The format allows for 8 a side mixed cricket gender games which gives the opportunity for all the players to bat, bowl and field.

Primary Sport and Auckland Cricket coaches have been delivering the format to schools for the last two terms. The culmination of all this hard work will be the Otara Cricket Tournament at Ngati Otara Park on Wednesday 16th March at 9:30am.

For further information on Kiwi 8’s and how it is played please contact:

Ben Mailata Pacific Island Development Officer at bmailata@aucklandcricket.co.nz

For Kiwi 8 Rules click here

Otara Sports Cluster Softball Tournament Cancellation

Unfortunately due to poor weather today’s Otara Sports Cluster Softball tournament had to be cancelled, however, we would like to say a big thank you to all who were involved with the organisation and would be execution of the day.

The Primary Sport Team would like to thank…

All the schools students and staff in the Otara Sports Cluster
Southern Braves Softball Club – Beth
Studio 123, Milo – Ann
Hills Flooring – Brian Carmount
Auckland City Council-Scott Malcolm and Colin Foster
Auckland Softball – Huni
Auckland Sports Photography – Leanne Raffles
Unique Catering Services – Lynette Razak and Ann Anderton

Primary Sport Otara and Papatoetoe Web News February 2011

The John Walker “Find Your Field of Dreams” Foundation Primary Sport Programme is currently running 43 out of school hour sports programmes (OSHS) across 16 schools in Otara and Papatoetoe servicing approximately 1200 year 4, 5 and 6 pupils.
The sports that are being offered in the first block of Term 1 are: Softball, European Handball, Cricket, Volleyball, Netball, Football, Rugby. These figures are up to and including week 6 of term 1 2011. The second block of sports begins in week 7 and a new set of children will get new sporting opportunities for the last part of the term.
Primary Sport works with 22 schools across Otara and Papatoetoe creating sporting opportunities for children in Year 4, 5 and 6.
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