Thank you to the organisations and people who have helped the committee in various ways:

To our sponsors:
-Timu Timbers, Koha Products, Westpac Bank

Thank you Phil Robinson, Sue Croskery and Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti for their help with running school tournaments, our booking book and events.

Thanks to Eddie Takoko who has started restringing our rackets that we use for juniors and groups.

Thanks to Caltex Service Station, who sell our tokens.

Thanks to Scott Crago and Linda White who helped with Kiwisport Programme for 2012.

Thanks to Bruce Ledger who continues to order and sell shuttles.

Thanks to Karen Amor who continues to empty the token boxes and take tokens to Caltex Service Station.

Thanks to Ra Leach who continues to run both the Winter and Spring League.

Thanks to Linda White and Debbie Brown for the Newspapers Reports in the paper.

Thanks to Scott Crago for continuing to take Kiwi Badminton, Junior Summer Badminton and Summer Club

Thanks to Keith Sherrard for organising the Junior Badminton Club and to Murray Winmill for helping him.

Thanks to Linda White for organising all tournaments during the year.

Finally thank you to committee members who make badminton happen!!! Cynthia Sidney, Ruth Ledger, Linda White, Justin Kent and Hayley Warman.

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BIZminton4 – Final Night

‘Late Comers’ took the honours and won the prestigious log of wood on the final night of the BIZminton3 Competition held at the Badminton Centre. In their last night tie of the competition, they were defeated 6 love by ‘Te Hapara Excellers’. The competition was held over 5 weeks, involving 13 teams from local firms, schools, volunteer and sports groups and friends’. Shanan Gray on receiving the trophy for the second time this year thanked the organisers and hope another BIZminton would be run in the summer.

The Plate competition was won by WPS Opus and runner-ups Starship Enterprise. On receiving the runner-up's certificate Mike Rice thanked the organisers and competitors for a wonderful run tournament on behalf of the two teams from Enterprise.

During the evening Spot Prizes were from the donated prizes from the teams and the evening concluded with supper.

As quoted by another participant when she went home “Tonight we wound up the latest round of BIZminton and our team was mean! We started off as ‘No Idea’ but definitely finished with ’Some Idea’! We didn’t quite conquer the tournament but made small gains! We have all the heart and potential so watch out next round we’re coming for the trophy ‘Late Comers’

Results from the final night:

Monday Madness defeated Launch 1: 5 matches to 1

WSP Opus defeated Launch 2: 4 matches to 2

Te Hapara Excellers defeated Late Comers: 6 matches to 0

No Idea defeated Ngati Rangi Night Blades:  4 matches to 2

Starship Enterprise 2 defeated Horouta 101’s: 4 matches to 2

Starship Enterprise 1 defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 3 matches all, 129 points to 124 points

Te Hapara Excellers defeated Te Hapara High Flyers: 5 matches to 1

Launch 1 defeated Launch 2: 4 matches to 2

BIZminton4 – Results Week 4

and Week 5 Draw

The fourth night of competition of the BIZminton4 league played last Wednesday at the Badminton Centre, ties were not as close as the previous but the noise got louder as rallies got longer. Competition continues to be fierce with final ties next week.

Apologies to Starship Enterprise 1 who defeated Launch 1 in Week 3, 3 matches all 129 – 125 point. (This was incorrectly reported in the results last week.)

Results for third night:

Late Comers defeated Starship Enterprise 2: 4 matches to 2

Launch 2 defeated Starship Enterprise 1: 5 matches to 1

WSP Opus defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 5 matches to 1

No Idea defeated Horouta 101’s:  4 matches to 2

Starship Enterprise 2 defeated Te Hapara Excellers: 5 matches to 1

WSP Opus defeated Monday Madness: 4 matches to 2

Te Hapara High Flyers defeated Ngati Rangi Night Blades: 5 matches to 1

Late Comers defeated No Idea; 3 all, 138 points to 126 points

Draw for final night:

6pm

Court 1          Launch 1 v Monday Madness

Court 2          WSP Opus v Launch 2

Court 3          Te Hapara Excellers v Late Comers

Court 4          Ngati Rangi Night Blades v No Idea

Spot Prize Draws: Teams are reminded to bring their spot prize.

7pm

Court 1          Starship Enterprise 2 v Horouta 101’s

Court 2         Gisborne Volunteer Centre v Starship Enterprise 1

Court 3          Te Hapara Excellers v Te Hapara High Flyers

Court 4          Launch 1 v Launch 2

Supper and presentations:

Teams are ask to contribute towards a shared supper.

Launch 1, Launch 2 & Te Hapara Excellers all have 2 ties on Wednesday.

Duty Team: Te Hapara Teams (sweep courts at end of night)

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BIZminton4 – Results Week 3

and Week 4 Draw

Close ties were a common theme on the third night of competition of the BIZminton4 league played last Wednesday at the Badminton Centre.

In the tie between Starship Enterprise 1 and WPS Opus the final score; Starship Enterprise 1 won 5 matches to 1 but in all matches, the scores were only separated by 1 to 3 points. Competition continues to be fierce with only this week and next to go.

Results for the third night:

Starship Enterprise 2 defeated Ngati Rangi Night Blades: 4 matches to 2

Starship Enterprise 1 defeated WSP Opus: 5 matches to 1

Late Comers defeated Horouta 101’s: 5 matches to 1

Gisborne Volunteer Centre defeated Monday Madness: 4 matches to 2

No Idea defeated Te Hapara High Flyers defeated: 6 matches to 0

Te Hapara Excellers defeated Horouta 101’s: 5 matches to 1

Monday Madness defeated Launch 2: 4 matches to 2

Launch 1 defeated Starship Enterprise 1: 3 all, 129 points to 125 points

Draw for the fourth night:

6pm

Court 1          Starship Enterprise 2 v Late Comers

Court 2          Starship Enterprise 1 v Launch 2

Court 3          Gisborne Volunteer Centre v WSP Opus

Court 4          Horouta 101’s v No Idea

7pm

Court 1          Starship Enterprise 2 v Te Hapara Excellers

Court 2          WSP Opus v Monday Madness

Court 3          Ngati Rangi Night Blades v Te Hapara High Flyers

Court 4          Late Comers v No Idea

Starship Enterprise 2, WSP Opus, Late Comers & No Idea all have 2 ties on Wednesday. Launch 1 have no ties.

Duty Team: Late Comers (sweep courts at end of night)

BIZminton4 – Results Week 2

and Week 3 Draw

Results from second night:

Te Hapara High Flyers defeated Starship Enterprise 2: 4 matches to 2

Ngati Rangi Night Blades defeated Horouta 101’s: 3 matches all; 161 points – 125 points

Launch 2 defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 3 matches all; 124 points – 120 points

Te Hapara High Flyers defeated Starship Enterprise 1: 4 matches to 2

Te Hapara Excellers defeated No Idea: 4 matches to 2

WSP Opus defeated Launch 1: 4 matches to 2

Launch 1 defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 4 matches to 2

Late Comers defeated Te Hapara High Flyers: 3 matches to 2

Draw for third night:

6pm

Court 1          Ngati Rangi Night Blades v Starship Enterprise 2

Court 2         Starship Enterprise 1 v WSP Opus

Court 3          Late Comers v Horouta 101’s

Court 4          Gisborne Volunteer Centre v Monday Madness

7pm

Court 1          Te Hapara High Flyers v No Idea

Court 2          Horouta 101’s v Te Hapara Excellers

Court 3          Launch 2 v Monday Madness

Court 4          Launch 1 v Starship Enterprise 1

Monday Madness and Horouta 101’s have 2 ties on Wednesday.

Duty Team: Horouta 101’s (sweep courts at end of night)

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BIZminton4 – Results 

Enthusiasm and hilarity marked the first week of BIZminton4 league played last Wednesday at the Badminton Centre. Two new teams joined the competition with a few players not playing badminton before all added to the fun of the night. A couple of ‘forward rolls’ were observed. Now that players have learnt the rules, how to serve, I believe some teams are now practising!!!!

Results for first night:

Starship Enterprise 2 defeated Launch 1: 6 matches to 0

Ngati Rangi Night Blades defeated Launch 2: 5 matches to 1

Horouta 101’s defeated Monday Madness: 6 matches to 0

No Idea defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 4 matches to 1

Te Hapara High Flyers defeated Starship Enterprise 1: 4 matches to 2

Te Hapara Excellers defeated WSP Opus: 4 matches to 1

Late Comers defeated Ngati Rangi Night Blades: 4 matches to 2

BIZminton3 Final Results

‘Late Comers’ took the honours by defeating ‘Ngati Rangi’ and won the prestigious log of wood on the final night of the BIZminton3 Compeition held at the Badminton Centre. The competition was held over 5 weeks , involving 14 teams from local firms, schools, volunteer and sport  groups, work skills programmes and friends’. Shanan Gray  on receiving the trophy noted that he started playing in the Mercantile League at least 6 years ago and always wanted to receive the trophy - 2018 is the year!!!!. He thanked the organisers Linda White and the Perano family for a wonderful run tournament.

Badminton Eastland are delighted with the competition and will be running BIZminton4 starting Wednesday 1^st August for 5 weeks.

Full Results:

Preliminary Rounds:

First Round:

Ngati Rangi defeated Gisborne Volunteer Centre: 3 all draw, points count back 98-79

Te Hapara Excellers defeated Sport Gisborne; 5 matches to 1

Kuranui Knights defeated Monday Madness; 5 matches to 1

Battle Hill defeated Turanga Ararau 1: 3 all draw, points count back 141-134

Late Comers defeated Turanga Ararau 2: 4 matches to 2

WSP Opus defeated Te Hapara High Flyers: 5 matches to 1

Second Round:

Ngati Rangi defeated Te Hapara Excellers: 6 matches to 0

Battle Hill defeated Kuranui Knights; 5 matches to 1

Late Comers defeated WSP Opus: 4 matches to 2

Tolaga Titans defeated Starship Enterprise; 3 all draw, points count back 118-103

Main Winners Round Robin

Late Comers defeated Ngati Rangi:  4 matches to 1

 defeated Battle Hill:  4 matches to 2

 defeated Tolaga Titans: 6 matches to 0

Ngati Rangi defeated Battle Hill:  5 matches to 1

                      defeated Tolaga Titans: 4 matches to 2

Battle Hill defeated Tolaga Titans: 4 matches to 2

Special Plate Round Robin

Te Hapara Excellers defeated WSP Opus: 5 matches to 1

                                      lost to Kuranui Knights: 2 matches to 4

                                      defeated Starship Enterprise: 4 matches to 2       

WSP Opus defeated Kuranui Knights: 4 matches to 2

                                      defeated Starship Enterprise: 3 all draw, points count back 124-123

Kuranui Knights defeated Starship Enterprise: 3 all draw, points count back 120-113

Plate Round Robin

Turanga Ararau 1 lost to Sport Gisborne: 4 matches to 2       

                                  defeated Te Hapara High Flyers: 3 all draw, points count back 141-128

          defeated Turanga Ararau 2: 4 matches to 2   

          defeated Monday Madness:  4 matches to 2 

          defeated Gisborne Volunteers Centre: 4 matches to 2                

Sport Gisborne lost Te Hapara High Flyers:  2 matches to 4       

                              defeated Turanga Ararau 2: 4 matches to 2   

      defeated Monday Madness:  4 matches to 2 

      defeated Gisborne Volunteers Centre: 4 matches to 2                

Te Hapara High Flyers lost to Turanga Ararau 2: 0 matches to 6   

                 defeated Monday Madness:  5 matches to 1 

                 defeated Gisborne Volunteers Centre: 6 matches to 0                

Turanga Ararau 2 lost to Monday Madness:  2 matches to 4 

         defeated Gisborne Volunteers Centre: 5 matches to 1                

Monday Madness defeated Gisborne Volunteers Centre: 5 matches to 1                

rs defeated WSP Opus: 4 matches to 2