School News

In breaking news, the HBHS 1st XI Hockey team have just won the Rankin Cup over Westlake Boys' High School 9 - 1.  More to come as we hear it, and congratulations to the team on this outstanding accomplishment.

The Waikato Secondary Schools Touch Competition, held at Cambridge this year, gave HBHS a chance to field three senior teams.  The winners of the Waikato 7s gain automatic entry into the Condor 7s National Championship.  The HBHS teams were unable to include the three members of the National Secondary Schools Rugby team; opportunities for up-and-coming players were plentiful, and the boys performed well on the day. 

The top and third HBHS teams played in the same pool.  At the end of the four games, the top team had achieved a place in the semi-finals.  They met St John’s in the semi, and played Cambridge in the final.  This consisted of a ten minute each way game.  After seven minutes, HBHS was 17 – 0 down.  The boys composed themselves just before half time, and turned the game around from that point forward.  The final score was 19 – 17. 

During the weekend HBHS won the regional secondary schools' 7s Tournament.  Coached by Mr Kirkham and supported by Mr Hotham, the boys put on a strong show in preparation for the national competition on December 2nd.

The results were as follows:
 

Pool Play
v Melville HS, won 54.0
v St Johns College, won 52-7
v Fraser HS, won 52-0
v Cambridge HS, won 24-15
v Putaruru College, won 55-0
v Te Aroha College, won 45-5

HBHS recently competed with eight ‘very high quality basketball’ schools, to win the Waikato Secondary Schools Championship.  This is the second time that we have won this particular competition.  Mr Courtney, the team coach, explained that 2002 was the last time we were successful in this particular pool.  The key players during the competition were Kirk Rangiawha, Rore Neho and Tamaki Courtney, with the Captain Weston Craig putting in a true captain’s effort. 

A stand out moment in the competition occurred during the final – we ran a set play and Weston Craig scored a three-pointer on the buzzer that gave us a six point lead going into the last quarter.  This kind of momentum made the game for our boys.

The team are now preparing for the National competition.  The goal is to gain a top eight finish.  We look forward to bringing you updates on the boys’ progress as it comes to hand.

Last night, 51 teams from secondary schools in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty region competed in the University of Waikato Chem Quest Quiz and one of the three HBHS teams took out the competition.  Year 12 students Jordan Sahlie, Nicolaas Portegys and Codi Merito proved that they were the best in the region, answering a range of questions that tested their knowledge, analytical ability and thinking skills on all things Chemistry.  A second team of Year 12 students, Adam Cameron, Patrick Webb and Daniel Carson placed fourth in the same competition.  Congratulations to all of these students and to teacher in charge of Chemistry Mr Graham Billing on winning another Chemistry competition in 2013. 

For the second year in a row, Hamilton Boys' High School have won the Sanix World Rugby Youth Tournament.  This message has just been emailed in:

'The score was 35 - 17, beating Ivybridge Community College from England.  21-3 at half time with tries to Joe Walsh, Luke Masirewa and Joe Webber in the first half, Te Raina Richards Coxhead kicked the conversions.  In the second half tries to Alex Suttie and Ben Finau with Te Raina converting.  The boys are very happy, so we have arranged a BBQ and a sing song for them now for a couple of hours, then it will be the big cleanup, sleep and we leave the Global Arena at 8.30 am tomorrow and head to Bangkok for 24 hours, then home on Sunday arriving at 11.55 am in Auckland.  Looking forward to seeing everyone.'