BY JOHN DECOSTE
Kings County Register
Northeast Kings Education Centre will be well represented at the NSSAF badminton provincials after a good showing at regionals April 3 and 4 in Clare.
NKEC swept the senior division, winning the team competition and placing first in all five disciplines in individual play.
In intermediate action, NKEC again captured the team banner and placed first in three of the five individual disciplines and second in a fourth.
At the senior level, NKEC’s veteran squad was again the class of the field. The NKEC team of Laura Roy (girls’ singles), Logan Coffill (boys’ singles), Jenny McGinis and Christine Manning (girls’ doubles), Ian and Paul Manning (boys’ doubles), Mishelle Manning and Blake Brown (mixed doubles) easily won the team title.
In individual competition, Roy, Coffill, Melvin and Christine Manning, Brown and Ian Manning, and McGinis and Sam Huyer-Upton all won their divisions; in some cases for a fifth straight year.
At the intermediate level, the NKEC team of Tineke Vanderweit, Louis Pearson, Gillian Tetlow and Sarah Bennett, Alex Caldwell and Chet Harrison, Claire MacDougall and Joe Huyer-Upton won the team event.
In individual competition, Vanderweit won the intermediate girls’ singles, Tetlow and Bennett the girls’ doubles and MacDougall and Huyer-Upton the mixed doubles, while Pearson was a close second in boys’ singles.
NKEC was represented in the junior individual competition by Ashlin Warner in boys’ singles and Jackie Little and Alex Corkum in mixed doubles. Both ended up third after losing in the cross-overs, and did not qualify for provincials.
The district champion junior team from Pine Ridge Middle School did not advance to provincials, but Christian Hill (boys’ singles), Medford Lutz and Eric Sproule (boys’ doubles) and Amy Scott and Jason Phuong (mixed doubles) all qualified for provincials in the individual competition.
The provincial school badminton championships are set for April 16 to 17 at CEC in Truro.
