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14 Tuesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />
SPORTS<br />
Teen runs<br />
personal<br />
best in half<br />
marathon<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
LONG DISTANCE running is<br />
in Nina Ericson’s genes and she<br />
showed it by winning the junior<br />
section of the Hanmer Four<br />
Square Half Marathon recently.<br />
Now she will<br />
turn her attention<br />
to the Christchurch<br />
Marathon where<br />
she plans on running<br />
in the 10km<br />
race on June 4.<br />
Nina<br />
Ericson<br />
The 13-year-old<br />
from Christchurch<br />
Rudolf Steiner<br />
School clocked her<br />
best ever half marathon time in<br />
Hanmer of 2hr 18min when she<br />
competed on <strong>May</strong> 6.<br />
“I had sore legs as I sprinted<br />
across the line, but I was very<br />
happy to finish in the time I did,”<br />
she said.<br />
She is a member of the Port Hills<br />
Athletic Club and goes for regular<br />
runs with her father, Arne, who<br />
used to run ultra-marathons.<br />
Hard-working guard in NZ squad<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
CASHMERE HIGH’S Okirano<br />
Tilaia has been selected for<br />
the New Zealand under-<strong>16</strong><br />
basketball team.<br />
Tilaia will travel to Perth with<br />
the national age group squad in<br />
July to compete in the Australian<br />
state championships.<br />
He said it was a real honour to<br />
be included in the team and felt<br />
it was well deserved.<br />
“I feel like all the hard work,<br />
the early morning training and<br />
the sacrifices I’ve made have paid<br />
off,” he said.<br />
His time is filled with basketball,<br />
including three school<br />
games and four trainings<br />
crammed into a week.<br />
“Someday I just need to take a<br />
day off to let my body recover,”<br />
he said.<br />
The 1.85m shooting guard has<br />
a fellow Cantabrian in the squad<br />
with St Andrew’s Sam Jenkins<br />
selected in the team.<br />
“We just know what each others<br />
strengths and weakness are.<br />
I attack the rim and he shoots,<br />
so if I can find him on the perimeter,<br />
I hit him,” he said.<br />
Basketball is a real passion of<br />
Tilaia, but he said getting a good<br />
job to support his family is his<br />
main goal.<br />
“I would love to travel the<br />
world and do some volunteering<br />
and have a go at being a youth<br />
ambassador,” he said.<br />
TO THE RIM: Cashmere<br />
High’s Okirano Tilaia has<br />
been included in the national<br />
under-<strong>16</strong> basketball team.<br />
Cashmere looking to continue winning form<br />
• By Andrew King<br />
CASHMERE WILL attempt to<br />
build on their winning start to<br />
the season when they take on<br />
Burnside tomorrow.<br />
With two wins from two in<br />
the Connetics schools premier<br />
first XI competition, Cashmere<br />
is looking forward to the battle<br />
at 5.45pm at the Christchurch<br />
Football Centre.<br />
Co-coach Craig Squire said<br />
while they are finding the back<br />
of the net on a consistent basis,<br />
stopping the opposition from<br />
doing the same is the key to<br />
winning matches.<br />
“Burnside are a good side<br />
and they are well coached, so<br />
we have to be very tight defensively,”<br />
he said.<br />
“We would like to have a few<br />
less scored against us this week,<br />
so that’s what we will be working<br />
on.”<br />
Cashmere scored four over<br />
St Andrew’s last week, three of<br />
which were scored by captain<br />
Lyle Matthysen.<br />
“He is in really good form at<br />
the moment,” Squire said.<br />
He said the whole team is<br />
coming together nicely, even in<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
the early stages of the competition.<br />
“We want to make the top<br />
four so we will do what it takes<br />
to get there,” he said.<br />
Top four results<br />
Cashmere: Two wins, six<br />
points<br />
Lincoln: One win, one<br />
draw, four points<br />
St Thomas: One win, one<br />
loss, three points<br />
Riccarton: One win, one<br />
loss, three points.<br />
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