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Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Top teams gear up for ice war
SkyCity Stampede's Connor Harrison helps Mako's Markus MacDonald get some air time during the teams' game in Queenstown last Saturday. PHOTO: SUPPLIED There was a risk Friday night's game between the SkyCity Stampede and Auckland Mako development ice hockey teams was going to end up with a cricket score. At the final whistle it was 11-2, to the home side, the Stampede having piled on 6 goals in the first 20 minutes, courtesy of Jack Robbie, Jett McCullum, Taylor Clark and two apiece from Axel Ruski-Jones and Colin McIntosh. Ruski-Jones found the net twice more in the second period while Max Macharg restarted the scoring in the third, McIntosh got his trifecta and Connor Harrison slotted one in, too, with the Mako's second goal coming in the last minute. Additionally, McIntosh led the assists with four, followed by Dylan Devlin (3), Connor Harrison, Callum Burns and Jordan Challis (2 each), and Ben Harford, Taylor Clark, Jessie Hutchins, Blake Campbell and Jack Robbie (1 each). While Stampede still enjoyed a comfortable 6-1 win on Saturday (Harrison, 2, Nolan Ross, 2, Ollie Ruski-Jones and Axel Ruski-Jones, 1 each), Mako, primarily comprising emerging players from the Stampede, Phoenix Thunder and Canterbury Red Devils, managed to save 57 of the shots on goal. Points from that round don't count in the NZ Ice Hockey League, in which the Stampede and West Auckland Admirals are in joint first place — the titans will play each other, in Auckland, next weekend. In the New Zealand Women's Ice Hockey League, the Wakatipu Wild had a hard-fought 4-2 win over the Phoenix Thunder in Dunedin last Saturday, and a reverse of fortunes last Sunday. In the first game, Caitlin 'Judy' Heale got the Wild on the board, assisted by Kelli Burstein and Kellye Nelson, before the Thunder answered back. Nelson put the Wild back in front in the second period, assisted by Heale and Caitlyn Hollyer, but the Thunder equalised again at the beginning of the third. But two unanswered goals from the Wild — from Inge Kemp and Burstein, assisted by Nelson and Heale — got the job done. On Sunday the Wild lost 3-1 — their only goal coming from Kemp, assisted by Bobbie Weeks and Gabby Mills, in the second period. The Wild, in second on the table behind Auckland, have two weekends off before playing Canterbury, in Queenstown, on June 13 and 14.
BBC News
14-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Thirsk shop plan would hurt conservation area, councillors warned
Plans for a branch of a discount store to be opened in a North Yorkshire town's former bank should be rejected, councillors have been Yorkshire Trading Company has applied to convert the former Barclays Bank building in Thirsk Market Place into a the proposals, a new 5,860 sq ft (545 sq m) extension would also be constructed at the rear of the building, with two flats created on the first planners said the conversion would harm the town's conservation area and recommended the scheme should be turned down by North Yorkshire councillors at a meeting next week. In a report to councillors, planning officer Connor Harrison said the scheme would create 18 full-time jobs and bring a redundant building back into according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Harrison said the proposal would "largely obliterate" the well-defined historic "burgage" plot upon which the property currently allowed for an understanding of the medieval origins of Thirsk and how this had shaped subsequent development within the town, he Thirsk Town Council had supported the redevelopment, Historic England had expressed concerns. 'Job opportunities' Supporting documents submitted with the Yorkshire Trading Company's planning application stated: "The proposal will help to support the existing community by providing a wide range of goods within the town centre, reducing the need to travel."A range of good job opportunities will be provided."The applicant also said the plan would protect the Market Place frontage of the building and the conservation recommending the scheme was rejected, Mr Harrison said the proposed development would result in "less than substantial harm to the character, appearance and significance of the Thirsk and Sowerby Conservation Area through the introduction of forms of development which are inappropriate in scale and massing".North Yorkshire Council's Thirsk and Malton area planning committee is due to discuss the application on 20 March. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
