St Paul’s 1st XI is the top Waikato hockey team for 2015 after cracking the dominance of local rivals Hamilton Boys’ High School in a number of competitions.
The first success for St Paul’s was an annual fixture, the Matt Allen Trophy, against HBHS in early June. St Paul’s won the match 2-0, taking out the title and tearing the Bartholomew Cup from HBHS’s two-year grip. Winning the cup was a highlight for the team with the cup representing the best-of-the-best in schoolboy hockey.
Three weeks later St Paul’s won the Waikato secondary schoolboys’ A-grade in a nail biting 1-0 game against HBHS. Then, to finish off their mighty season on a high, St Paul’s placed fourth in the national Rankin Cup in September following Westlake Boys in first, St Andrew’s College in second and King’s College in third.
