Local athletes dominate NZ Masters championships

Effie Drummond and Joeline Jones recently attended the New Zealand Masters Track and Field Championships in Hastings from 28 February – 1 March. Now racing together in the same age group, 35-39 years, they were stiff competition for one another.

In the 60m Joeline equalled her NZ record for the event however Effie bet her by 0.06 of a second to take gold and become the new NZ record holder of this event.

In the 100m Effie won convincingly to take gold, while Joeline once again claimed silver. The 200m saw the reverse of the 60m with Joeline this time taking gold by 0.06 over Effie. Joeline also entered the 400m and triple jump which she claimed gold in both events. Having beaten the NZ record for pentathlon at South Islands in November, she was keen to extend this record out further after a little practice on some of her weaker events. Her shot put and 100m saw her match her previous attempts from South Islands, and unfortunately due to issues with her run up in long jump saw her jumping well below her best. She knew she had to dig deep in the final two events and pulled off a 3m personal best in javelin, and a 6 second personal best in the 800m to beat her New Zealand record by 60 points and claim the gold medal. They were also part of the Tasman mixed 4x100m relay team who finished second.

“Hopefully this may have been the first and last nationals that we will be in the same age group for a few years, as this competition falls around my birthday and I hope to be racing in the 40-45 age group next year,” Joeline laughs.

“We are great training buddies when we can train together and we push each other hard, but I prefer not to race in the same age

Motueka Cricket Club - Second Grade T20s

Lion Foundation Motueka Vs Wanderers 29/02/2020

Motueka travelled to Centennial Park in Brightwater to face Wanderers for the first round of the T20 competition. The home team won the toss and elected to bowl first, as is the norm with the T20s starting at 11am. Motueka started slowly against some good bowling and were 11 for 1 after 3 overs, however the next over they doubled the score and were away.

After losing their next wicket at 28 a solid 83-run partnership between Liam Hobbs (48 off 40 balls)