Petanque players in the winning circle
Hibiscus Petanque is celebrating a win at the hotly contested annual National Club Championships, held last month in Tauranga.
Eighteen teams from all over the country entered.
The Hibiscus club fielded two teams and after two days of intense competition Hibiscus Seniors beat defending champions Christchurch Seniors by one point to take out the Senior trophy.
The winning team is pictured, from left, Bill Peachey, Marco Furtado, Rod Walsh, Lynnette Gibbs, Charles Deane and Jay Newton.
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Records were broken at the All-Star Texel in-lamb ewe sale on Saturday last at Blessington Mart, which saw a top price of €5,200 paid out for a twin-bearing ewe and an overall sale clearance rate of 90%.
Lot 61, bred by Anthony Donnelly, was bought by Brian Connelly, from Tuam in Co. Galway, for the record-smashing price – of €5,200.
This record-breaking in-lamb ewe is a daughter of Garngour Bladerunner and out of a Knock Ursus ewe. She was sold scanned carrying twins and is due to lamb in February. Donnelly also sold two more full sisters of this ewe for €3,000 and €1,600 respectively.