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New Zealand Junior
Of The Year
Manawatu's Natalie
Paterson has been
selected New Zealand's Junior of the Year for 2008.
Locally, Manawatu's
recognised high achievers for 2008 were:
Player of the
Year: Mike Tate-Davis
Junior of the
Year: Natalie Paterson
Administrator of
the Year: Shona Cudby
Christmas League
The individual-based 'Christmas
League' has started, but we now have gone for a mini recess over
Christmas. The next competition night is on
6 Jan 09 and
then on to the first week of
Februray 2009. More details, including results to data are here.
Spring Competition
A-Grade has concluded
with
Demolishers (Charly
Talumepa, Stephen Jourdain, Allen Blackburn)
taking out the title as spring
champions, narrowly staying ahead of Jawami (Miko Kirschbaum, Ojit
Marino, Tony McAllister, Jason Poon, Mark Lawrence).
Matthew Ball won the Best
Player award ahead of Charly Talumepa.
C-Grade has also concluded
with
Ducketts (Brendon
Johnstone, James Cross)
taking out the C-grade spring
title, beating Wildcats (Donald Lantu, Malcolm Little) on the
final night.
Brendon Johnstone also
took out the Best Player award ahead of Donald Lantu and Samuel
Boyd.
Details and final results are available here, or read Jim's
weekly update
of what's been happening.
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit count has concluded
for 2008, with Charly Talumepa having the most wins against
strongest opponents. Matthew Ball came second and Miko
Kirschbaum third. The full list of the 10 most-successful players
for 2008 is available here.
The Order of Merit count has now restarted, with the start of the
Christmas League.
The Outgoing
Committee bids the year farewell to make room for a new Committee
to take TT Manawatu to bigger and better things in 2009. Changes on
the Committe are Kerry McGeehan replacing Mike Ball as Treasurer, and
Ra Raumati and Wayne Upjohn replacing Jim Jarmin and Miko Kirschbaum
as ordinary Committee Members.
TTM Summer League
February to April
Summer league has concluded
with finals on 29 April. Click here
for final results.
TTM Autumn League
May to July
Autumn League 2008 has
finished.
Click here
for final results.
TTM Winter League
July to September
Winter league has finished. Final
results are here.
TTM Spring League
October to November
Spring League has concluded.
Final results are here.
TTM Christmas League
December to February
Christmas League is an
individual-based flexible competition. It has started on 9 December and
will run through to February. Next competition round is on 6 January
2009. Further details
here.
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