Kiwi Volley Intermediate Placings - Napier

Finals Day for the intermediates was played on Wednesday 10th Dec 08. The final was played between two St Patricks intermediate teams - St Pats Super Curry vs St Pats Da Playaz. This was a very close game with St Pats Super Curry winning the match 90 to 83. The 3rd and 4th play off was between Tam Int Mintage and St Pats Skittles with Tamatea Intermediate winning this match and taking the honours of 3rd place.

SUPERLEAGUE TERM 4 2008

Monday 8th December saw the finals of this terms SuperLeague competition. An exciting final was played with last years champions Flaxmere 1 vs Hastings 2. The standard of volleyball was great to watch with Hastings 2 just coming in ahead to be the Term 4 2008 champions. Well done to Hastings. 3rd and 4th place was another good match with Flaxmere 2 beating Kimi Ora.

VBHB Junior Seeding Tournament 14th & 15th November Results

20 teams competed at the Pettigrew-Green Arena over the weekend to play for seeding positions for teams going on to enter the North Island Junior Secondary Schools Championships which will be staged here in Hawke’s Bay in the first week of December. Hawke’s Bay has 13 teams entered and our top seed male and female teams should look for good results at the National event.

In the girls competition Hastings girls meet Woodford Premier in the final. Woodford were no match for the Hastings team going down 10 – 25, 14 - 25 (0 -2). This was however an improvement on their result from last weekend when they lost to Havelock North 10A in the semi Final. Havelock north will have to be happy with the 3rd seeding spot for Hawke’s Bay teams. Havelock North Year 9 team pushed hard this weekend winning extra sets and will be very pleased with their improvement.
Final placing for the teams entering North islands were:
1st: Hastings Girls
2nd: Woodford House Premier
3rd: Havelock North High School Year 10
4th; Havelock North High School Year 9
5th: Taradale High School Girls 1

The boys’ teams endured a tough draw with back to back games and duties for most teams all weekend. It was the seventh game of the tournament for both Napier Boys 1 – Pit stop and Taradale High School Boys 1 in the final. Both teams looked weary and at one stage it looked possible that the game would go to the third tie break set with Napier Boys lacking the energy to finish. The final result was Napier Boys Pit Stop 25 – 17, 25 – 21 (2 – 0). Napier Boys 2 – Engineering Solutions played off against Hastings Boys for 3rd and 4th spot with Hastings Boys winning 25 – 23, 25 – 14 (2 – 0).

Taradale should be very pleased with their result this weekend after finishing outside of the semis last weekend. Although they appeared to push Napier Boys in the final the number one Napier Boys team has more depth and should go well at the North Island event in two weeks time. Taradale though will likely continue to improve and will also be a team to watch. The other interesting result of the weekend was that of the 4th Napier Boys team – Sainsbury Logan and Williams who beat Taradale Boys 2 and Gisborne boys in pool play to come 8th overall in the tournament.

Final placing for teams entering North Islands are:
1st: NBHS 1 – Pit Stop
2nd: Taradale High School Boys 1
3rd: Hastings Boys High School 1
4th: Napier Boys High School 2 –Engineering Solutions
5th: Hastings Boys High School 2
6th: Havelock North High School Boys
7th: Napier Boys High School 3 – Firmans Marine
8th: Taradale Highs School Boys 2

Junior Secondary School Open Tournament 7th and 8th November 2008

20 Junior secondary school Volleyball teams form Napier, Hastings, Taradale, Havelock North, Gisborne and Wairarapa competed over two days at the Pettigrew-Green Arena in Taradale to determine the winners of the Volleyball Hawke's Bay Open (Girls and Boys).
The Boys trophy was taken out convincingly by Napier Boys High School Sharp Edge Engineering. Hastings Boys were no contest for this team who have been preparing for the North Island Junior Volleyball Champs (being held her in Hawke's Bay in December), since this time last year. This Napier Boys High School team will be a side to watch at the North Islands. Jackson Neilsen of Napier Boys High School was named as the Most Valuable player in the boys teams.
On the girls side of the draw things were a bit closer with Woodford House and Havelock North Girls battling out in the semi finals over three sets with Havelock North advancing to the final against last years winners Hastings Girls High School. This game also went to the third tie break set with strong serving from Hastings Girls rattling the Havelock Girls at the end. Hastings Girls taking away the trophy. Alani Samia, coach of the HB Junior girls development squads was pleased with the performance of his squad girls across the teams saying they all stood out and this was reward for all the extra training they have done through winter.
Full results available on this site.
Next tournament for Juniors starts Friday 14th November and will determine seeding spots for teams entering North Island Champs.

Gearing Up for busy Volleyball Season

Volleyball Hawke's Bay staff have been flat out lately preparing for the coming secondary school and primary school volleyball activities. On offer next term for school players are:

KiwiVolley Leagues in Napier, Hastings and Flaxmere; SuperLeague on Monday at the PGA; Inter school Junior volleyball on Wednesday at the PGA, 4 aside indoor volleyball at the PGA on Wednesdays, U15 Development sqaud training indoors on Mondays and beach volleyball on Fridays in Napier.

There will be two junior tournaments in November and the North Island Junior Volleyball Champs will be in Hawke's Bay this year in the first week of December. More information about tshirts and social coming soon.

All information about these events plus school holiday programmes and coach courses are now available on this site.

Anyone recognise the two teachers in the shot above enjoying a game of beach volley at Waimarama beach?