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Police Sport
Newsletter Two 2018
As always, the beginning of the year is very busy.
Lots of activities and tournaments and I would like to thank all those who have helped organise
these on your behalf.
Se some of the write ups below.
There are still more coming up and remember the Winter Games, and the AP & ES Games – so
get your leave organised.!
Cheers
Dave
Dave Gallagher General Manager
Email [email protected]
Phone: 04 238 3139
Cell: 0272 302 847
www.policesport.org.nz
NZPA Winter Games
Our Winter Games is now firmly on the
Police Sport Calendar.
The 2018 event is to be held in Christchurch
from
Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 AUGUST.
Planning is well underway and more
information will be available in the next few
weeks, but get your teams together, book
your leave and get ready for what is always a
fantastic event.
Sports involved:
Rugby
Netball
Football
Golf
Indoor cricket
CrossFit
Squash
Volleyball
Mountain Biking
Cross Country Running
And anything we can look to include!
Registration and payment swill be available
online via the Police Sport website in the
next week or so.
Cost are only
• $30 per Police Sport member
• $95 for Non-Police Sport members
• $10 Police Sport members for the
final function
.
AP & ES Games 2018
The 2018 AP & ES Games will be held in
Mandurah, an hour South of Perth from Sunday
28 October to Saturday 3 November 2018.
ALL POLICE SPORT MEMBERS WILL BE ELIGIBLE
FOR A GRANT OF MINIMUM $150 FROM
NATIONAL OFFICE. Once you have registered
send an email to Dave at
[email protected] . we will add you to
the database.
There is plenty of information available by
simple following the links list below.
The AP & ES Games Website can be found by
follow this link:
http://www.apandesgames.com.au/
To register follow this link:
http://www.apandesgames.com.au/page/Regist
er-x-7380-2319-15277.html
For a list of all sports on offer follow this link:
http://www.apandesgames.com.au/page/Sports
-x-7302-2319-14903.html
To register follow this link:
http://www.apandesgames.com.au/page/How-
to-Register-x-7285-2319-15250.html
Some info about Mandurah and surrounds.
Only an hour south of Perth, the Peel Region
offers everything from beautiful coastlines
to Jarrah forests, all within a short drive.
This diverse region is Perth’s natural
adventure playground made up of the City
of Mandurah, and surrounding Shires of
Serpentine Jarrahdale, Murray, Waroona
and Boddington.
The experiences range from fun at the coast
to experiences in the bush. Zip along the
estuary or take to the open ocean on a jet
ski, go fishing, board a dolphin cruise, tee off
at world-class golf courses, go mountain
biking or hiking through Jarrah forests,
treetop climbing or wine tasting. The
opportunities are endless.
Meaning ‘meeting place of the heart’,
Mandurah was originally known as
‘Mandjoogoordap’ and is a dream location
for people who love being on, in or near the
water.
Western Australia’s fastest growing regional
city enjoys some of the most spectacular
waterways in the country, often compared
to a modern Venice and is known for its
natural beauty, pristine beaches, blue
manna crabs and wild dolphins.
The Peel-Harvey Estuary, Mandurah’s jewel
in the crown, is twice the size of Sydney
Harbour and ideal for canoeing, kayaking,
jet-skiing, boating, houseboating, dolphin
cruises, fishing and crabbing.
You’ll also love discovering amazing
adventures of the palate all over this tasty
region. Enjoy dining with a view at
Mandurah’s waterfront cafés and award-
winning restaurants along the Eastern
Foreshore and at Dolphin Quay or head out
into the countryside to find fantastic
wineries, breweries and genuine local
produce.
With plenty of accommodation options on
offer Mandurah is the perfect place to base
yourself and take daytrips out to explore the
region and its nature-based attractions.
The Murray area, with its historic towns
Pinjarra and Dwellingup, is a wonderland of
natural attractions and heritage sites.
Enjoy native wildlife and reconnect with
nature at the 50,000 hectares Lane Poole
Reserve near Dwellingup. There’s also an
extensive network of bushwalking tracks
along the Murray River and numerous
opportunities for mountain biking,
swimming, fishing and canoeing with hire
equipment and organised tours available in
Dwellingup.
Dwellingup is where trails meet. Traversing
1,000 kilometres, the Bibbulmun Track
meanders through towering jarrah and marri
forests of Dwellingup. Follow the triangular
markers symbolising the Waugal, the
rainbow serpent of Aboriginal dreaming. Or
check out the Munda Biddi Trail, meaning
“path through the forest”, and enjoy over
1,000 kilometres of cycling heaven. As well
as passing through magnificent Lane Poole
Reserve with its swimming, camping and
canoeing opportunities, the trail also takes
cyclists through the historic timber towns of
Jarrahdale and Dwellingup in the Peel
Region.
The Baldwin’s Bluff Nature Track at
Serpentine Falls National Park requires
hikers to be reasonably fit as it climbs up
gravel tracks to Baldwin’s Bluff. You will pass
through jarrah and marri woodlands,
eventually coming to wandoo woodland and
then finally over exposed granite. But it’s
worth the effort. When you get up to the
top, you will enjoy a view to die for.
From September to November wildflower
hunters can find incredible colour and
variety across the region on bush walks
through Jarrahdale and Serpentine National
Park, around Oakley Dam in Dwellingup and
the coastal areas of Yalgorup National Park
which is home to the ancient thrombolite
reef. These circular rock-like formations
provide a window into what our world
looked like hundreds of millions of years
ago.
About 50 kilometres east of Dwellingup, you
find Boddington. Half of the shire is state
forest and the area is popular for camping
and fishing and ideal for hiking, picnics and
bird-watching. Enjoy a picnic by the Hotham
River and soak up the view. About 35
kilometres south-west of Dwellingup, Lake
Navarino, also known as Waroona Dam, in
the town of Waroona is a popular spot for
bush walking, mountain biking, 4WDing and
camping.
For more information on Mandurah & the
Peel Region, go to
http://www.visitpeel.com.au.
NZPA Tennis Champs.
The Police tennis championships where held in
Tauranga over 2 days. The sunny BOP lived up to
it name with 2 scorching days and some good
and bad tennis played.
As usual the social grade was highly competitive
with the usual core of players from Rotorua and
Gisborne making the trip.
umbers were down in the open grades with a
solitary 2 woman in the woman’s grade so they
had to enter the social Men’s doubles grade.
The Men’s open singles represented a changing
of the guard, with a different name on the
singles trophy, first time in 30 years that Jeff
Sowter hasn’t attend and won the tournament.
The winner was Nigel Allen (Auckland) who beat
Mark Osbourne (Auckland) in the final, the
Men’s doubles winners were Mike Owen and
Grant Carpenter (Tauranga).
Woman’s Singles winner was Jo O’Connor
(Waitemata) who beat Wendy Wrigley
(Rotorua).
Thanks to Wendy Wrigley and Mark Osbourne
for organising the tournament this year, after a
discussion it has been decided to move the
tournament to Whangaparaoa tennis club for
next year to try to boost playing numbers, so all
Police tennis players (especially woman) get
involved and enter the tournament next year.
NZPA Waka Ama Champs
Northland, Bay of Islands
Results Sprints Winners Novice Men White Chocolate – Canterbury Novice Women Smoother Operators – Wellington Novice Mixed Counties-Manukau Steelers Open Men Taranaki Open Men Open Women Taranaki Open Women Marathon Winners Novice Men Counties-Manukau Novice Women Smoother Operators – Wellington Novice Mixed Vaka Mua Wellington Open Men Northland Ninjas Open Women Taranaki Open Women Open Mixed Counties-Manukau District Shield Winners (combination of points scored from all teams representing each District) Novice Sprints Counties-Manukau Novice Marathon Wellington
Open Sprints Taranaki Open Marathon Taranaki
Overall Points Winners Counties-Manukau It was a great turnout for the NZPA Waka Ama Nationals 2018 held Sunday 11 to Tuesday 13 March. 66 paddlers arrived on Sunday from Canterbury, Wellington, Taranaki, Counties-Manukau and Te Tai Tokerau and were welcomed to a Powhiri at Te Tii Marae, Waitangi.
Racing started on Monday where a shortened sprints day was held due to Cyclone Hola hitting us. However, this didn’t dampen the enthusiasm and paddlers soldiered on. Each grade had heat then a final on a 500m course on the Waitangi River. There was some close racing with only seconds separating some teams. On completion of sprint racing in true Northland style everyone enjoyed tuatua fritters, smoked marlin courtesy of Constable Doug Te Puni and his whanau.
Tuesday the long-distance marathon racing was held. Once Cyclone Hola cleared we were able to get out on the harbour and enjoy our racing. The novice teams completed a 10km course and the opens paddled a 15km course. Once again spirits were high and once again some close battles were had out on the water between teams and Districts.
Our racing was finished by a great prize giving evening, lamb on a spit meal and a seafood feast. This was finished off by a night of Kareoke.
Te Tai Tokerau would like to thank all the paddlers and supporters who travelled from afar to attended the Nationals. We would also like to thank the NZ Police Association and Police Sport for their support. Thank you and much appreciated.
Inter Services Softball
The NZ Police Men’s Team competed for the
Inter Services trophy in Palmerston North 13-
15th March. This is the 9th time the Police have
competed for this trophy and the 8th Win. Last
year we were beaten by Army in the final and
left us smarting as we had built up a good
rivalry.
We gathered at the Palmerston North Motel the
day before the tournament kicked off and in
true Police sports fashion some of us met for the
first time, introductions all round and some war
stories told. Good catch up with some long term
team mates and the stage was set.
Day 1
Game 1 Here we go, with our wounds still raw
from last year’s loss in the final our first game
was against Army. Their young pitcher and Hutt
Valley representative was throwing them down
hard. Our men were disciplined in the batter’s
box drawing some early walks and a few hits but
not enough to score. Army scored a run in the
second innings, our turn to bat and up stepped
Greg FOSTER, affectionately known as Fozzie to
his team mates and smacked one over centre
field fence to level the score. Army batted again
but couldn’t capitalise on the mixture of pitches
Fozz had in his battery arsenal. Police bat again
and Grunta Christian hits a double and he’s on
2nd base. Scotty ‘the Guru’ Dixon into the box
hits a line drive to right field, Army’s right field
runs in too early and lets the ball go by in a
diving attempt at the ball, after burners turned
on running at a speed close to Mach 5 with his
hair on fire gets sent home by Coach Love and
it’s an infield home run scoring two and it’s 3-1
things are looking good. Up steps AJ Dyason and
smacks one over centre right field fence and it’s
4-1. Army rallied a little to score 1 further run in
a close game not really reflected in the score
Police win 4-2. This was just the start we needed
after having lost both games to Army last year.
Game 2 Up next Airforce, thinking if we beat the
reigning champs Army then surely Airforce
would be no problem, right? Wrong, after failing
to capitalise on good scoring opportunities and
leaving a host of runners on base we went down
4 -3 to a very fired up Airforce.
Day 2 - We played Navy twice with 2 wins. A
solid 11 – 1 win in the morning saw us off to a
good start shaking off the previous days loss to
Airforce. Everyone was hitting, everyone got
some game time and the composite bats were
woken from their slumber. In our second game
Navy made a pitching change to someone who
was a little faster and resting on our laurels a bit
it was a very different story. Again failing to
capitalise and moving runners around at crucial
times saw a very close 4-2 win to Police.
Day3 (Finals)
With the games between Police, Army and
Airforce close we played Airforce first up.
Airforce played exceptionally well, with few
errors and slowly adding runs per innings. Next
thing we know we’re trailing 3 -0 and going into
our final innings meaning Airforce needs to get 3
of us out and the game is theirs putting us out of
the final. Digging deep we finally woke up and
strung a series of hits together to score 4 runs in
an epic come from behind win to take the game
4-3 breaking the hearts of the Airforce team who
were so close. There was even mention of a
conflict of interest against Police for stealing the
game from Airforce. With our resolve and
winners never quit attitude anything can happen
if you don’t give up.
The final was just as tough with the team struck
down by injures we rallied well to score 4 runs in
the 2nd innings. This was enough to hold on until
Army hit 2 home runs late in the game, but it
was too late, and we ran out 4 -2 winners in the
final.
Scott Dixon was player of game one against
Army and Thomie DAVIS was awarded player of
the games against Airforce and Army in the final.
Special mention goes to our Captain Senior
Sergeant Greg FOSTER who after 22 odd years in
the Police has retired and went out on a high.
Thanks for all your efforts Fozz you will be sorely
missed. Also, a big thank you to Police Sport for
your continued loyalty and assistance in making
this tournament possible for us. To Senior
Constable Brendon Smith for his administrative
contribution in organising accommodation,
travel, uniforms, funding the list goes on. Kia
ora.
The Team – Greg Foster, Scott Dixon, Grant
Christian, Thomie Davies, Andrew Karsten, Tyron
Wall, Adrian Dyason, Simon Cornish, Caleb
Huntingdon Watt, Dion Bennett, Liam Stewart,
Strapper Spot Lowe & Coach John Love
NZPA Triathlon Champs
An excellent day in Dunedin for the NZ Police
Triathlon championship’s. A total of 11
competitors from Canterbury, Otago and
Southland took part on the stunning Otago
Harbour course consisting of a brisk swim at
MacAndrew Bay, fast cycling conditions taking in
the spectacular views as cyclists headed towards
the albatross colony, followed by an equally fast
run beside the harbour. The Tri was held in
conjunction with the Dunedin Triathlon Club’s
Otago Champs. Dunedin is hoping to host a NZ
Police South Island Triathlon in 2019 using the
same venue. Congratulations to all that took
part and thank you for your support!
Results:
Open Men
1st Eddie Smith (Dunedin)
2nd Chris Buckley (Christchurch)
Veterans Men
1st Nik Leigh (Dunedin)
2nd Dean Pearce (Dunedin)
3rd Anthony Hogan (Invercargill)
Open Woman
1st Tamsyn McSkimming (Dunedin)
2nd Edana Sparks (Christchurch)
3rd Alice Adcock (Christchurch)
Veterans Woman
1st Karen Hodgkinson (Dunedin)
Teams:
1st Share the Road – Dwight Grieve (Te Anua) &
Brook Armishaw (Invercargill)
Planning an Event?
If you are planning on hosting a tournament in the
New Year, now is the time to get your funding
application in.
Application forms can be found on the website at
http://policesport.org.nz/funding.html or just
send Dave an email at [email protected] for
more information.
What’s coming up?
There is plenty on the horizon: If you are
planning on holding an event and it is not listed
here please get in touch and we can include.
More details on our website
http://policesport.org.nz/ go to the sport pages
NZ POLICE ASSOCIATION SURFING
CHAMPS
30 APRIL – 3 MAY 2018
Manu Bay or Ngarumi Bay/Ruapuke Beach
Contact Dean McMillan (Raglan Police), Kris
EDGINGTON (Rotorua) or Todd CAIRNS
POLICE SPORT AGM
5 – 6 JUNE 2018
Napier
Contact Dave Gallagher at
NZ POLICE ASSOCIATION POLICE
SPORT WINTERR GAMES
29 – 31 AUGUST 2018
Christchurch
Contact Dave Gallagher at
AP&ES GAMES Mandurah
28 OCT – 3 NOV 2018
Contact Dave Gallagher at
Or for more information or look at the
website
http://www.apandesgames.com.au/
Your Committee are:
Chair Brett Shields
CM
Vice Chair Kerry Fenton
Upper Hutt
Treasurer Tracy Daly
Wellington
Committee Chris Lucy
Invercargill
Committee Mike Sears
Wellington
Committee Dave Wishnowsky
Palmerston North
Committee Tracey McCarthy
Wellington
Committee Rob McCaskie
Tauranga
Dave Gallagher
General Manager
Phone: 04 238 3139
Cell: +64 272 302 847 www.policesport.org.nz