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A very special gold medal Marton athlete Piki Te Whatu won gold and bronze at the Special Olympics in Palmerston North earlier this month.

Top performers will compete at Marton Shearing Competition New Zealand’s top shearers will compete in Marton at the 46th Marton Shearing Competition on Feb 7 2009.

Chilly Tutaenui Sports Unfortunately the day started a little wet and very cold on January 11 for the annual Tutaenui Sports, so entries were down. It was still a very good day, free of any serious falls so St John had very little to do.

145th games begin Saturday This years Ceilidh at the Turakina Calendonian Highland Games will be a special event on January 31 at the Turakina Domain.

Bulls Rugby prizegiving By Sandra Moke

Tennis champion started at Turakina Turakina Tennis Club is the home court of junior tennis champion Paige Hourigan

Off to represent NZ at Deaf Olympics Bulls swimmer Alex Field is off to represent New Zealand in the Deaf Olympics in Taipei in September.

Marton vs Pirates Anyone watching at Marton Park last Saturday would have been both impressed and shocked as Marton after 20 minutes were leading their much fancied opposition 14-0. Captain George Malasia started the scoring with a block busting try, conversion by Tai Sau-fale. Then minutes later second five John Alio scooped up a loose Pirates pass and ran 55m to score, conversion by Tai. Marton were showing a renewed passion and enthusiasm putting great pressure on the pirates side forcing mistakes and then capitalising on them. But Pirates through some good forward play came back with a penalty and then a converted try to be 14-10 down. Then something less than pretty happened a fight broke out between numerous players from both sides which lead to the 1st half ending early. Control was lost by the referee and never really came back, with both players and referees clashing over several incidents through out the second half, which marred what could have been a good game of rugby and turned it into a farcical 2nd half. Marton ended the game with only 13 players on the field but still managed to score another excellent try to replacement 1st Tom Sutton which Tai converted. A lack of discipline turned what could have been an excellent win and rugby spectacle into a loss which should only be used as a learning curve of how not to behave on a rugby field.

Looking at Sports and Leisure Hub Representatives from various Marton sporting codes met on Monday night to look into forming a sporting and Leisure hub in Marton.

Marton Saracens Junior Cricket Marton Junior Cricket team played their last game for the season last Saturday. The players in the team range from Year 4 to Year 8. They enjoyed some success with a couple of wins during the season. The parents say thanks to Coaches Cam Paulger and Bruce Galpin. They are looking for more players to join next season.