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The following is an email received from the team in Fukuoku:

'HBHS are in the final against England, Ivybridge Community College. We beat Toin College 56-12 today. Ivybridge just beat Paarl from SA 19-15.

Game is at 2.15 Japan time, about 5.15 NZ tmw.

Boys are very happy, as we all are.'

We will post the results of the final as soon as they become available.

The Softball New Zealand National Age group tournaments are played during the month of January across New Zealand with Waikato represented at the U15, U17 and U19 Boys tournaments. HBHS has a large representation in all these teams.

HBHS Under 15B, coached by Hemi Coates and Pat McFetridge, has returned the Andrew Strawbridge Cup (Waikato Under 15A Competition) to Boys' High after an undefeated season. The team played 'above' their ranking and enjoyed a particularly successful year using the strengths of each individual and clear strategies to win each game.

Andrew Strawbridge is an Old Boy and ex-staff member of HBHS.  The Chiefs recently signed him as third assistant coach, focussing on skills work.  Strawbridge is a former Waikato outside back who played 131 games and scored 646 points for the province.  Prior to his Chiefs appointment, he has been the Auckland assistant coach in the ITM Cup, and a teacher at Cambridge High School.

Congratulations are in order to the creative team of HBHS boys who featured on ‘Close Up’ recently.  Over the last two years Hamilton Boys’ High students Juan Robertson, Robin Kuyper, Nathaniel Watson, David Robinson, Simon Lillis, Stephen Sutjipto and David Ju have been working on a short film project titled ‘Potential’. After persevering through many problems, delays, script rewrites, endless rendering hours, and a certain team member forgetting to put a lens in his letterbox, the film was finally completed and premiered at Event Cinemas on October 3^rd. 

The premier was a huge success with both screenings selling out.  The team is currently in rehabilitation mode, trying their best to stay away from away film projects in the ‘near’ future. They wish to thank all the staff and students who helped with the film as it would not have been possible without your support. They would also like to acknowledge the generous support of their sponsors: Herbert Morton, Hamilton Plumbing Co. Ltd, Steel & Tube, Jay Car Electronics, The Fibreglass Shop, Hamilton Industrial Spray Painters Ltd, Bunnings Warehouse and Metal Man. 

From the prefects, the student leaders of 2013 were selected.  This group, known as the “top five” will head the various student-led prefect committees and will work alongside school staff in order to promote and develop excellence in all endeavours.  The student leaders are...

A TOUR of a big budget Auckland movie set convinced a group of Hamilton Boys' High School movie-makers to shoot their latest production in 3D.

The team, billing themselves as Monumental Media, have already completed a series of works and cut a deal with their school to give them time to complete a 40-minute 3D film by December.

Monumental members Juan Robertson and Robin Kuyper got a start in film-making while at Hamilton Christian School. Juan co-directed Esther with teacher Dennis Stevenson and Robin worked on the sound boom.

Arriving at Boys' High in 2007, Juan and Robin were joined by David Robinson who came on board to help with the 3D animation. The trio entered the 2008 TV2 Mad Movie Challenge with their first combined work titled Thrust - and won. With additional members Nathaniel Watson and Simon Lillis, the team entered agai n in 2009 and won, this time with Havoc.