Sporting your life vicariously – the last Tournament – Pictures and Video

Some of the pictures from the last game of College Hockey for #2 Daughter - Federation Cup 2012 - Carterton - there is a YouTube too, just because I discovered how to do that !

The movie has the sequence in order of an obstruction call that she didn't get given and ends with some hand waving and chirping of the umpire. Wonder where she get's that from :-)

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFnIfV7YgoA]

The game Rangitoto College against Palmerston North Girls for 13/14th place. It ended 5-2 to Rangitoto who were altogether the better team.
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Sporting your life vicariously – the last Tournament - Aftermath

The Final Federation Cup Hockey Tournament for the #1 Daughter is done and dusted.

After the two games on Monday the dye had been cast and the girls were then in the bottom half off the draw - the bottom 8, which was confirmed after a further loss on the Tuesday.

Wednesday's game, against, surprisingly Whangarei GHS, meant that the loser would effectively be relegated from the tournament the following year.

It didn't go well, the Rangitoto girls turned up to play in a very terse, nervous and sombre mood. And this translated to a ponderous and withdrawn match that they lost easily to a very motivated Whangarei team.

Thursday then, nothing to lose and a match against Kristin School, who, ironically are the closest school to Rangitoto College in Auckland. They have "the wood" on them and 1-0 doesn't really do justice to a match that Rangitoto dominated for he large part

And so to a final game, in the pouring rain, and #1 seeding for the Marie Fry tournament next year, and a comprehensive 5-2, smiles and high fives all round.

• Mon 3rd Sep  Round 1 Pool C Rangitoto College Craighead Diocesan  LOSS 0 - 2 


• Mon 3rd Sep  Round 2 Pool C Rangitoto College Villa Maria College LOSS 2 - 4 


• Tue 4th Sep    Round 3 Pool C St Cuthbert's College Rangitoto College LOSS 3 - 0 


• Wed 5th Sep  Crossover Round 4 Whangarei Girls' High Rangitoto College LOSS 4 - 0


• Thu 6th Sep   Crossover Round 5 Rangitoto College Kristin School WIN 1 - 0 


• Fri 7th Sep   Final Round Rangitoto College Palmerston North Girls WIN 5 - 2 

Final Results and Placings

• 1 St Cuthbert's College


• 2 Wairarapa College


• 3 Diocesan School


• 4 Rangi Ruru Girls


• 5 Villa Maria College


• 6 St Margaret's College


• 7 Epsom Girls Grammar


• 8 St Hilda's Collegiate


• 9 Whangarei Girls' High


• 10 Craighead Diocesan


• 11 St Matthew's Collegiate


• 12 Christchurch Girls High


• 13 Rangitoto College


• 14 Palmerston North Girls


• 15 Kristin School


• 16 Gisborne Girls High

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Sporting your life vicariously – the last Tournament

Next week my daughter will be playing for her College team at the 2012 Federation Cup Secondary School Tournament in Carterton. It will be for her, and many others, the final schools tournament they get to play in. Of course there is always faint hope of age grade representative teams, and other honours, but this one is a final hurrah before she embarks into the real world!

Rangitoto College are this year seeded #6 based on the 2011 tournament results. The Federation Cup is for the top schools Hockey teams, and is pretty mercenary, the bottom 4 teams drop out of the tournament the following year, and the top four teams from the  Marie Fry Trophy Secondary School Tournament are added, this year: St Hilda's Collegiate , Craighead Diocesan, Christchurch Girls High, and Gisborne Girls High. The Schools that now play in the tournament below -The Marie Fry Trophy Secondary School Tournament -  are : Westlake Girls High, Hillcrest High School, Tauranga Girls College,  and Nelson College for Girls, and they go in as the top 4 seeds for that.

The Federation Cup  is played in a tournament format of 16 Team 4 teams per pool, and then Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals.

In recent years, since they qualified after the 2007 Marie Fry Trophy Tournament,  Rangitoto College have finished 8th (2008), 4th (2009), 2nd (2010), and 6th (2011).

This year then the seeding and pools look like this

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
Wairarapa College	Diocesan School	St Cuthbert's College	St Matthew's Collegiate
Whangarei Girls' High	St Margarets' College	Rangitoto College	Rangi Ruru Girls
Epsom Girls Grammar	Kristin School	Villa Maria College	Palmerston North Girls
Gisborne Girls High	Christchurch Girls High	Craighead Diocesan	St Hilda's Collegiate

And seedings

Team	Division Seeding
Wairarapa College	1
Diocesan School	2
St Cuthbert's College	3
St Matthew's Collegiate	4
Rangi Ruru Girls	5
Rangitoto College	6
St Margaret's College	7
Whangarei Girls' High	8
Epsom Girls Grammar	9
Kristin School	10
Villa Maria College	11
Palmerston North Girls	12
St Hilda's Collegiate	13
Craighead Diocesan	14
Christchurch Girls High	15
Gisborne Girls High	16

And for me? A Few days in Carterton where there is plenty of Wine to drink ! oh and I'm urged to consider these activities whilst there, inbetween games:

• Paua World, a terrific paua factory and store


• The Parkvale Mushroom Factory


• Vineyards at Gladstone


• Stonehenge Aotearoa


• Country gardens - like Daysh Country Garden at Clareville and Assisi Gardens high in the Gladstone hills


• and as a bonus


• For an outdoor adventure hike in the Tararua Forest Park and the Waiohine Gorge, which has an brilliant swing bridge.

All of which could happen.