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Highland heroes The Highlanders have been crowned the Super 15 champions after their 21-14 victory over the Hurricanes on Saturday night.

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Matt snatches Young Farmer title BY MICHELLE NELSON MICHELLE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

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Hinds dairy farmer Matt Bell joined an impressive line-up of Mid Canterbury winners of the ANZ Young Farmer Contest when he took the 2015 title on Saturday night. In a contest that went down to the wire, Mr Bell snatched the title from Sully Alsop by a mere two points on a countback. “It was pretty tense, Sully and I tied at the end, so it went to a countback on the practical component,” Mr Bell

said. It’s been a long slog for the Hinds Young Farmers Club member, and his second crack at grand final level. He freely admits he would never have stood on the winner’s podium without the support of his fiancée Samantha. “Realistically it’s been three years of build-up to this – when I made grand finals the first time it was very much a learning curve, but this time we were there to win and we did it,” he said. “It’s very much a ‘we’ thing – we won the contest, not I won – it’s been

a huge team effort. Samantha’s been phenomenal in supporting me for the last three or four years, I’ve no doubt I couldn’t have done it without her.” Mr Bell said he was “over-run with emotion” in the moments after he realised he had won the contest, but it really hit home when last year’s winner David Kidd bestowed him the cloak of honour.

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