College rowers strike gold at SISS champs

PETER JONES

Marlborough colleges picked up 10 medals at the weekend’s South Island Secondary Schools rowing championships on Lake Ruataniwha.

Marlborough Boys’ College crews claimed five medals –one gold, three silver and a bronze amongst highly-competitive fields as they complete their preparation for the forthcoming Maadi Cup regatta.

Gold medallists for MBC were the under-17 pair of George Lindstrom and Shane Henry. The under-16 coxed quad of Hamish Lindstrom, Jock Flanagan, Louis Girling, Blake Campbell and cox Jack Shaw bagged silver in their A final, as did the same combination in the under-16 coxed four.

The third silver was won by the under-15 octuple sculls crew of Willem Rowe, Aiden Bennett, Logan Flight, Hunter Marfell, Toby Randall, Drew Materoa, Aston Underwood, Bronson Blissett and cox Blake Marfell.

The pair of Zac Jenkins and Dylan Locke picked up a bronze in the under-18 pair final.

Marlborough Girls’ College rowers also claimed five medals, including two golds. They were won by the under-16 eight crew of Grace Straker, Sophie Saggers, Brooke Harper, Abby Craig, Izzy Brick, Mila van Rensberg, Elizabeth Bowron, Bella Rayner and cox Molly Wilkes and the under-16 coxed four of Straker, Saggers, Harper, van Rensberg and cox Grace McKendry.

The girls under-18 eight of Bowron, Iris Vavasour, Katie Fenwick, Craig, Georgette Herkt, Anna Hurren, Lily