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Wednesday <strong>November</strong> 2 <strong>2016</strong><br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 21<br />
Import impresses<br />
for Sumner<br />
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
SUMNER WILL be thankful their<br />
new 23-year-old import decided to<br />
move to New Zealand on a whim<br />
a month ago – but they will rue<br />
only signing him for<br />
six months.<br />
Originally from<br />
Middlesbrough,<br />
Jordan Leech fancies<br />
himself as an allrounder<br />
on the cricket<br />
pitch, but due to a<br />
back injury, he’s stuck<br />
to batting for the first couple of<br />
matches.<br />
He has scored 58 runs in the last<br />
two matches for his new club, and<br />
has been in the nets practicing his<br />
fast balls for when his back is right<br />
to open the bowling.<br />
He moved from the United<br />
Kingdom last month to join<br />
Sumner from the club he’s played<br />
on and off for since he was five,<br />
Normanby Hall.<br />
“It’s funny, I wasn’t going to<br />
come over at all, but it was all sort<br />
of last minute. I went through an<br />
agent and found that Sumner were<br />
looking for an English lad and<br />
now here I am,” Leech said.<br />
When Leech was 19, he played<br />
in Melbourne for half a year, but<br />
said it was easy to pick which city<br />
he preferred.<br />
“Christchurch is a little bit better<br />
I have to say. New Zealanders are<br />
a lot nicer than Australians,” he<br />
said.<br />
Included in his six-month<br />
contract is accommodation<br />
with a family in Redcliffs,<br />
which Leech said is ideal for his<br />
part-time contracting work and<br />
groundsman work at St Leonards<br />
Square.<br />
“It’s great because, basically,<br />
I’m working doing contracting a<br />
couple of days a week and I’m also<br />
doing the grounds at St Leonards<br />
as well, which is something I’ve<br />
never done before and really<br />
enjoy,” he said.<br />
Cricket is in Leech’s family. His<br />
father played in New Zealand<br />
for Wellington between 1995<br />
and 1998, and his brother is an<br />
up-and-coming fast bowler in<br />
Yorkshire, United Kingdom.<br />
“My brother won the best fast<br />
bowler in England award for<br />
under-15 and he’s looking at a spot<br />
in the England under-16 squad,”<br />
he said.<br />
SPORTS<br />
HOWZAT?: Heathcote’s Charlie Grey, wicket keeper James Rennie and Matt Mealings<br />
appeal for a wicket from behind the stumps in Sunday’s match against Hornby. Played<br />
at Heathcote Domain, the home side’s bowlers started strongly to see the first five<br />
Hornby batsmen out for 60 runs. But they struggled seeing out the middle and lower<br />
order, allowing Hornby to settle for 150 all out. When the home side went out to bat, club<br />
secretary Paul Corliss said they couldn’t gain much traction and Hornby won the game by<br />
four runs.<br />
Point surf’s Tim Gould wins long board title<br />
• By Fraser Walker-Pearce<br />
POINT SURF Team’s Tim<br />
Gould is Canterbury’s<br />
primary schools long board<br />
champion.<br />
He won the title at the<br />
primary schools surf champs,<br />
hosted by Point Surf Team at<br />
Sumner Beach on Sunday.<br />
More than 50 young<br />
surfers, some from as far away<br />
as Waikuku, competed in the<br />
championship.<br />
Tim’s teammate Jack Tyro<br />
was pipped by North Wai<br />
Boardriders club member<br />
Tom Robertson in the year<br />
5 and under boy’s and girl’s<br />
section.<br />
In other results for Point<br />
Surf Team, Ruby Armstrong<br />
won bronze in the year 6 and<br />
7 girl’s section, Will Jamieson<br />
was fourth in the long board<br />
and Tim was fourth in the<br />
year 8 boy’s section.<br />
Contest organiser Steve<br />
Tyro said the weather was<br />
“perfect” for the competition<br />
and the day was more about<br />
giving the kids a platform to<br />
work on their skills.<br />
“There was a good mix of<br />
kids from Waikuku through<br />
to Sumner in all the finals<br />
and they all get on really well<br />
with each other . . . clowning<br />
around like kids do with each<br />
other. It was good to see the<br />
co-operation between the<br />
three clubs,” Tyro said.<br />
“The surf hung in there,<br />
the wind was off-shore and<br />
it couldn’t have been a better<br />
day. The surf wasn’t too big or<br />
small for the kids,” he said.<br />
BIG BOARDS: Tim Gould (left), Myka Black, James Millar and Will Jamieson, from Point Surf Team and<br />
North Wai Boardriders, line up before their long board final.<br />
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