Kamo 2 Kerikeri 2 (half time 1-1): The champions forced to accept a draw from fellow title contenders Kamo in this top of the table clash from the Northland Premier Division at Kamo on Saturday.

The Kawakawa Team Roping Club successfully staged its annual family day event at the Kawakawa Domain on Saturday.

The Halberg Junior Disability Games, a national sports competition for physically disabled and visually impaired young people, officially opened with a ceremony at the Avantidrome in Cambridge on Friday night.

The annual Doubtless Bay Mixed Fours Tournament which ran at Cooper's Beach over three days earlier this month attracted 24 teams with players from as far away as Bulls.

The Doubtless Bay Croquet Club hosted 32 young students from Herekino in the west to Oruaiti in the east, in an intermediate aged tournament last Thursday, with local commentator Peter Hartnall describing the turnout as a joy to see.

Bay of Islands College senior boys took out the North Island AFL Secondary Schools championship in Auckland earlier this month.

The Doubtless Bay Croquet Club reported The Little Kitchen Tournament last Friday was well supported where, in ideal conditions, some of the most talented players in the province were in action showing off their skills with some long range croquet strokes

Far North surfers in Ahipara were reportedly relieved to find Surf2Surf had discontinued the controversial live stream of conditions at their local break last week.

Two new hot lap records were burnt into the clay at Taipa Speedway on Sunday.

One of the best female kickboxers in the world ran a clinic for students of the Kiaido Ryu Martial Arts organisation at Kaitaia College earlier this month.

Sixty students from Riverview Primary School were recently seen gliding across Lake Manuwai in glorious Indian Summer conditions over a week earlier this month when they took part in the Volvo Sailing Have a Go programme .

Organisers turned a negative in to a positive when a smaller than usual field turned up to part in the annual Stonecraft Tournament at the Kaitaia Croquet Club on Matthews Avenue last Friday.

Students from Taipa Area School and Oruaiti Primary School took full advantage of being given the opportunity to learn the game of golf croquet at Cable Bay recently.

Organisers of the annual Houhora One Base big game fishing tournament said the weather forecast was looking good for this year's event, which starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday.

The Kaeo under-13s got their pre-season winter campaign off to a great start by winning the Hora Hora Junior Rugby Sevens championship on Sunday.

Seaside property in Russell is on the market - complete with its own 18-hole golf course.

With Far North breaks turning on epic conditions, the competitors stepped up and ripped into some high-performance walls during the 12th New Zealand Police Association National Surfing Competition last week.

Kaitaia's Nat Blud broke a record which has stood since 1986 at the Kaitaia College 2016 swimming championships last Friday.

After missing the Capital Classic at the end of January, Sue Rogers resumed her New Zealand Ocean Swim Series campaign by taking part in the Christchurch Crown on Saturday.

The Mangonui champions got their pre-season build-up off to another good start by giving a good account of themselves at the national club rugby sevens championships in Wainuiomata earlier this month.

Organisers of the Ironmahue 2016 set to take place in Whangaroa county later this month are expecting a record turnout for this year's event.

While the local surf scene was conspicuous by its absence at the recent nationals in Dunedin, two Far North surfers were in action at the first event of the Billabong Grom Series at Mount Maunganui last weekend.

Awanui is representing Northland at the national club rugby sevens finals in Wellington this Saturday and Sunday.

Another year of gymnastics classes are all ready to go at the Kaitaia Gymnastic Club beginning with a pre-enrolment afternoon on Monday, February 8, at 3.30pm followed by the first classes beginning on Tuesday, February 9 for Term 1.

That's the call from a Kaitaia businessmen who's keen to see the sport grow in the Far North. If anyone is qualified to promote the game, likened to an informal but still intensely competitive version of indoor hockey, it's Daniel Fasnacht.

The weather played ball when the Far North RSA Bowling Club hosted the Northland Age Open last Tuesday.

A Kaikohe businesswoman who only began racing ATV class competitively 18 months ago hasn't taken long to come to grips with her local track, and now plans to give her far more experienced male opponents a good run for their money.