Nor'West News: February 28, 2017
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NOR’WEST NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>28</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 9<br />
Another Boyle on the horizon<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
THE BOYLE name is<br />
synonymous with cricket in<br />
Canterbury – now Matt Boyle<br />
looks set to be the latest cab<br />
off the rank after a blistering<br />
summer to date.<br />
Boyle, 14, was key with the<br />
bat, helping St<br />
Bede’s College<br />
qualify for the<br />
national finals of<br />
the junior secondary<br />
school boys’<br />
competition.<br />
Jack Boyle<br />
Justin<br />
Boyle<br />
He comes from<br />
a talented cricketing<br />
family. His<br />
father Justin was<br />
a prominent firstclass<br />
cricketer for<br />
Canterbury in the<br />
1980s. His uncle<br />
David also played<br />
for Canterbury<br />
in the 1980s and<br />
1990s, while his<br />
older brother Jack made his<br />
first-class debut for Canterbury<br />
last year and has represented the<br />
province at least half a dozen<br />
times.<br />
Now the year 10 student top<br />
scored with 65 as St Bede’s<br />
defeated Christchurch Boys’<br />
High School by three wickets in<br />
the regional final last week. They<br />
will now head to the national<br />
tournament in Palmerston<br />
North next month.<br />
Boyle recently picked up the<br />
year 9 batting award at the<br />
Christchurch Metro Cricket<br />
youth awards after scoring 613<br />
runs at an average of 153 in his<br />
first year at high school.<br />
He has since earned a spot<br />
in the St Bede’s first XI and<br />
recently scored his first century<br />
for the team.<br />
His maiden first XI century<br />
came in the school’s traditional<br />
game against Sacred Heart College<br />
in Auckland. He went in to<br />
bat with the score at 30/5 and<br />
went on to score 110 not out.<br />
He has a way to go to catch<br />
a school record held by older<br />
brother, Jack, who scored a record<br />
10 first XI centuries during<br />
his time at St Bede’s. However,<br />
Jack’s confident his younger<br />
brother can go on to eclipse him.<br />
“He’s still got four years ahead<br />
of him; I definitely didn’t score<br />
any as a year 10. I’d imagine he<br />
will go on to pass that before he<br />
finishes,” said Jack.<br />
Their father Justin, who is<br />
rector at St Bede’s, is the first XI<br />
batting coach and believes Matt<br />
Boyle can carry on the family<br />
tradition of playing first-class<br />
cricket.<br />
“Jack’s first century was at<br />
the beginning of year 12, so as<br />
long as Matt keeps his feet on<br />
the ground he could do it,” said<br />
Justin.<br />
While he may have plenty of<br />
time to chase down his brother’s<br />
record, Boyle and the St Bede’s<br />
junior team will have their eyes<br />
set on a national title when the<br />
junior secondary school boys’<br />
competition tournament begins<br />
on March 27.<br />
PROMISING: Matt Boyle<br />
received a batting award at<br />
this month’s Christchurch<br />
Metro Cricket youth awards. <br />
CGHS row to<br />
under-19 title<br />
NATIONALS: The top Christchurch Girls’ High School<br />
coxed four team won the under-19 title at the New<br />
Zealand Rowing Championships in Twizel. Laura<br />
Pinnell, Grace Loveridge, Emily Nicholson-Sell,<br />
Georgia Sevier and Georgia Scott (coxswain) won<br />
their heat and earned the top qualifying time going<br />
into the final. In the big race, CGHS pushed off the<br />
starting blocks in first position with Columba College<br />
from Dunedin close behind the whole race. They<br />
held out Columba, ultimately winning the final by just<br />
one second. The crew went on to finish third at the<br />
weekend’s Canterbury junior regatta at Ashburton’s<br />
Lake Hood. They finished behind St Margaret’s<br />
College and Rangi Ruru Girls’ School. The crew will<br />
now turn their attention to the South Island secondary<br />
school champs on March 11 to 12.<br />
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