NKEC, Pine Ridge, Horton top individual badminton competition

BY JOHN DECOSTE

Kings County Register

Northeast Kings is still the school to beat in district individual badminton competition.

Host NKEC took 11 of 15 competitions at the junior, intermediate and senior levels at the district individual competition April 7 in Canning: four of five events at the junior level, three of five in intermediate and four of five at the senior level.

Pine Ridge made inroads in winning two events at the junior level, and added two runner-up finishes. Horton and Wolfville won one event each in intermediate, and Horton’s Justin Barkhouse won the senior boys’ singles.

The top two in each event at each level qualified for the regional competition Saturday in Bridgewater (the team competition goes Friday, also in Bridgewater).

The top finishers in both the team and invididual regional competitions this weekend qualify for NSSAF badminton provincials April 18 and19 at Citadel High in Halifax.

Junior

Girls’ singles - NKEC’s Tineke Vanderweit, first; Serena Flawn, Pine Ridge, second; Vanessa Robertson, Coldbrook, third

Boys’ singles - Louis Pearson of NKEC, first

Girls’ doubles - Sarah Bennett and Gillian Tetlow, NKEC, first; Amy Tan and Shawna Andrews, Pine Ridge, second; Mikayla Webster and Jennifer Poirier, Coldbrook, third

Boys’ doubles - Andrew Chase and Christian Hill of Pine Ridge, first; Yonghwan Kwon and Morgan Robertson-Ennis, Coldbrook, second; Alex Caldwell and Max Beveridge, NKEC, third

Mixed doubles - Tanisha Cronin and Sean Fraser of Pine Ridge, first; Alexis Braun and Ashlin Warner, NKEC, second; Olivia Welton and Devon Welton, Coldbrook, third

Intermediate

Girls’ singles - Laura Roy, NKEC, first; Charlotte Butcher, Horton, second; Carrie Wood, Central Kings, third

Boys’ singles - Josh Thomas, Wolfville, first; Ian Roberts, Horton, second; Chris Potter, West Kings, third

Girls’ doubles - Victoria Brewster and Tabitha Payzant of NKEC, first

Boys’ doubles - Matt Hillier and Charles Huntley of Horton, first; Jordan MacIntosh and T.J. Sweet, West Kings, second; Garrett Whitsit and Ben Pate, NKEC, third

Mixed doubles - Claire MacDougall and Joe Harper of NKEC, first; Stephanie Scott and Patrick Perry, West Kings, second; Emma Kault and Colton Harris, Wolfville, third

Senior

Girls’ singles - Jacobi Vanderweit of NKEC, first; Robyn McNeill, Central Kings, second; Tina Lawrence, West Kings, third

Buys’ singles - Justin Barkhouse, Horton, first; Sam Huyer-Upton, NKEC, second; Roderic Mapplebeck, West Kings, third

Girls’ doubles - Mishelle Melvin and Christine Manning, NKEC, first; Lisa Fuller and Stephanie Howatt, Horton, second; Olivia Brown and Kelsey Turnbull, Central Kings, third

Boys’ doubles - Ian Manning and Blake Brown, NKEC, first; Sam Mills-Holland and Jacob MacKinnon, Horton, second; Kevin Tsai and Hans Chiang, Kings-Edgehill, third

Mixed doubles - Jenny McGinis and Paul Manning, NKEC, first; Kendra Cleary and Braham Pray-Leslie, Horton, second; Sun Yun Su and Tyler Foote, Central Kings, third