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46 Thursday December 8 2016 follow us on facebook.com/riseupchristchurch Sport Weekday coverage of local sport with Gordon Findlater The Star Mon-Fri bulletins: 5.30pm, repeats at 7pm and 9.30pm Freeview 40 | Live and on demand at ctv.co.nz | facebook.com/canterburytv Pride prepare for final • By Gordon Findlater HOSTING THE National Women’s League final against Capital on Sunday is something the Canterbury United Pride could only dream about a fortnight ago. Going into the final day of round-robin fixtures on November 27, the Pride were just an outside chance of finishing the regular season in top spot. They needed to defeat Central Football and hope that WaiBop could hold defending champion Northern Football to at least a draw. After being held to a 1-1 draw by Central, the Pride’s hopes of hosting a home final were all but over. It was with little hope that the team then turned their attention to the Northern v WaiBop game. “We were following it on Twitter and we saw that Northern went up by two goals so we thought it was game over. We looked later on in the match and it was 1-0, 2-2, then 3-2 to WaiBop,” said Pride captain Annalie Longo. The massive upset meant the Pride would not only host a home final, but get a weekend off while WaiBop and Capitol played for the second final spot last weekend. The upset also meant the Pride now have the chance to go one • By Gordon Findlater TWO CANTERBURY rugby league legends have been named as World Cup ambassadors. Frank Endacott and Gary Clarke will lead the charge in Christchurch, promoting the tournament in New Zealand and Australia next year. Endacott was the Kiwis coach from 1995-2000 for 13 tests. He BIG OCCASION: Canterbury United Pride captain Annalie Longo is confident her side can return to the summit of national women’s football when they face Capital in Sunday’s final. better than 2015. After winning back-to-back titles in 2013 and 2014, the Canterbury team were defeated by Northern Football in last year’s final 3-4. Sunday’s opposition, Capital, booked their spot in the final in dramatic fashion defeating WaiBop 4-2 on penalties last weekend. The Pride met Capital on one occasion this year winning 3-1. “That result is a big confidence boost going into the final, but they’ve improved hugely since and have a couple of key players we will have to nullify, said Longo. The occasion will be a new level for much of the Pride’s also coached the Warriors in the late 1990s and then had a successful stint coaching in England. Endacott coached Wigan Warriors from 1999-2001 and was named Super League’s Coach of the Year after leading Wigan to a grand-final appearance. Clarke was a Kiwi scrum-half in the late 1960s and made his mark later as a coach, leading the young core of players. At 25, Longo is easily one of the oldest Pride players. Many in the squad are still at school, including 14-year-old midfielder Macey Fraser who scored her first National Women’s League goal three weeks ago. “The girls are incredibly young and it will be the biggest game that a lot of them have played in. For me, it’s just about being composed and relaxed and ensuring we play our own style of football. Hopefully, they can go out there with confidence and enjoy the occasion,” said Longo. •Sunday’s final at English Park kicks off at 4pm Endacott, Clarke promote league World Cup Papanui Tigers to grand-final wins and coaching Canterbury to a historic win over Auckland in Auckland in the mid-1970s. He was also a Kiwi selector in the Graham Lowe era. World Cup chief ambassador Sir Peter Leitch made the announcement at the South Island Kiwis Association annual meeting in Christchurch on Friday Teen Black Stick claims gold at athletic champs JESSIE ANDERSON has claimed a national athletics title just a week before she lines up for the Black Sticks. Anderson, who was recently named in the Black Sticks for the first time, helped Villa Maria College to win the 4x400m senior girls’ relay title at the New Zealand Secondary School Athletics Championships in Auckland on the weekend. The team of Anderson, Olivia Burnham, Tegan Duffy and Georgia Stroud finished in a time of 4m 2.41s, more than two seconds ahead of St Andrew’s College in second place. The 18-year-old has now turned her attention to hockey and joined the Black Sticks for their TWO TENNIS teams with no shortage of recent history will face off in a top of the table clash at the ASB Men’s Premier Canterbury interclub competition this weekend. Waimairi have gone unbeaten through six rounds of the competition and will face threetime defending champion’s Cashmere with every intention of coming away with a victory. The two teams have met in the past three interclub finals, night. “The role is to drum up interest for the tournament and spread the word. We want to make sure that we have a good turnout for the two games in Christchurch,” said Endacott. The New Zealand v Scotland game on November 4 at AMI Stadium is New Zealand’s second fastest selling match. ATHLETES: The Villa Maria 4x400m relay team of Olivia Burnham, Tegan Duffy, Georgia Stroud and Jessie Anderson. training camp ahead of the team’s five-match series against Malaysia which begins on December 12. Top of table tennis clash with Cashmere coming away victorious on each occasion. Dylan Heap, Remi Feneon and former New Zealand Davis Cup player Glenn Wilson will lead the charge for Waimairi against Cashmere’s Meredith (James, Matt and Tim) and McHarg (Johnny and Tim) brothers. Cashmere have only suffered one loss this season in their opening game with a 2-4 defeat to Elmwood. At the meeting on Friday, Bill Flavell was inducted as an honorary member of the association in memory of his late club and representative teammate, Mita Mohi, who passed away last month. West Coast great Tony Coll was also confirmed as the association’s vice patron to replace the late George Menzies. SUN 11 DECat ENGLISH PARK V 1pm DRAGONS v EASTERN SUBURBS V PRIDE v CAPITAL 4pm GRAND FINAL
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And realistically, it is a Land Cruiser 200 in disguise, it gets all the trick four-wheel-drive gear along with all the grandeur that embodies the Lexus spirit of luxury, refinement and sophistication. The LX has always been powered by a 5.7-litre V8 petrol engine, but just recently it has been joined by a 4.5-litre V8 diesel which, incidentally, is the first Lexus diesel offering. The LX570 lists at $179,900, and I guess if you have that amount of money to spend on a vehicle, filling regularly with petrol probably isn’t a disadvantage, but at $159,900 the diesel variant probably makes just that little bit more sense, and it is still the epitome of luxury transport off-road, or any road as the case may be. Ironically, it was just a few weeks back that I drove the Land Cruiser 200 with exactly the same engine and driveline. I remarked then that even though it is a huge and bulky vehicle, it doesn’t feel big to drive; the same can be said for the LX450d, and it is an off-road champion like no other. The four-wheel-drive mechanicals and the electronic systems which override it are comparable to the world’s best fourwheel-drive platforms – even Range Rover and Jeep product. The LX450d has a multitude of options available at the driver’s command for when road (or track) surfaces vary, they are all dial or button operated, mostly from an extensive array on the centre console, they are intuitive to use quickly when grip and traction settings need altering. There LEXUS LX450D: Diesel engine is the first for Lexus. are also comfort, normal and sport suspension settings. Lexus rate the 4461cc, quad-camshaft, 32-valve V8 at 200kW, with an amazing 650Nm of torque available all of the way from 1600rpm to 2800rpm. It is a true powerhouse with an unfaltering flow of power right through to the 4500rpm redline. Well, it needs to be strong, the 450d weighs heavy at over 2500kg, and rated with a 3500kg towing figure there is a lot of weight to haul constantly. • Price – Lexus LX450d, $159,900 • Dimensions – Length, 5080mm; width, 1980mm; height, 1865mm • Configuration – V8, four-wheel-drive, 4661cc, 200kW, 650Nm, six-speed automatic. • Performance – 0-100km/h, 9.5sec • Fuel usage – 9.5l/100km That aside, the 450d feels sprightly, it will cut out a standstill to 100km/h time of 8.6sec, and will lunge through a highway overtake in 5sec; both these figures I would suggest are quick for vehicle type. Drive is transferred through a six-speed automatic gearbox, interestingly, the petrol V8 gets a flash eight-speeder, but that matters little, the diesel unit flows smoothly through the transmission and it has quick, fluid shifts which work well with the power characteristics. A stiff southerly was blowing through Canterbury during my day of rural testing, and as big as the LX450d is, it wasn’t bothered by the wind gusts, there’s a lot of sheet metal down the side of the vehicle (almost 5.1m) but it feels firmly planted on the road and has remarkable stability. There is little sensation in a corner, there is body roll, but that’s no surprise, it’s how I would expect it to be. The LX450d gets a fabulous ride through a complex air suspension system, bearing in mind that it has to disguise a live rear axle. Up front the suspension is more traditional through a double wishbone system, but the engineers have created a plush ride, and that is something we have come to expect with Lexus. The mechanicals are engineered for life crosscountry. I didn’t take the vehicle off-road for fear of damage, although I did take it on a long shingle loop near Hororata, crossing the Hororata River through legitimate fords. The river was barely a trickle, but it was a good opportunity to test the varying four-wheel-drive options. As a series, the LX has just had a major makeover, it’s a lot more than cosmetic facelift, the only carryover panels are the doors. The interior, too, has had a major refresh, and all of the trim elements are true Lexus with enough cockpit dials and switches to keep a Boeing pilot happy. Column space doesn’t allow comprehensive detailing of equipment, but to say the LX450d misses out on little. I would have liked to have seen the rear passenger compartment entertainment screens that are offered on Cruiser VX, which I can report certainly keep youngsters entertained on a long journey. Nevertheless, the LX series is a quality piece of kit all round. It is expensive, but you certainly get a lot of vehicle for the money. It is most certainly the machine to get you to the skifield in style. 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