Midlands winners

Canterbury Hockey has handed back the Ramesh Patel Shield it was wrongly presented with less than a fortnight ago. After the Canterbury Cats won the women’s National Hockey League (NHL) in Whangarei, Canterbury Hockey was presented with the Shield, which is awarded to the best overall performing region through the under-18, under-21 and NHL tournaments. However, a few days after returning to Christchurch with the award, Canterbury Hockey chief executive Rod Templeton was told Midlands was the rightful winner. ‘‘We were thrilled to have won it because it is recognised within the hockey associations, and it represents such an iconic name in New Zealand hockey,’’ Templeton said. ‘‘But they relooked at the rules around it and found that on the countback Midlands actually had one more point than us.’’