Southern View: March 20, 2018

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Tuesday March 20 2018 17
Students face former
cricketing greats
A STRING of lucky local secondary
school students will get a rare chance
to play against some of the country’s
former cricketing greats and a former
All Black on Sunday.
Christchurch Boys’ High School’s
Mitchell Hay, St Andrew’s College
students Jesse Frew and Rhys Mariu,
Christ’s College students Bradley Entwistle
and Matt Munro, and St Bede’s
College’s Nic Lidstone have been named
in the Governor-General’s Youth XI to
take on a Willows XI at The Willows.
The Willows XI contains Black Caps
2015 Cricket World Cup hero Grant
Elliot as well as other former Black Caps
Ervin McSweeney, Ewen Chatfield,
Shayne O’Connor, Evan Gray and the
Marshall twins James and Hamish.
Former All Black half-back and keen
cricketer Andy Ellis will also play in the
team.
The local youth players will also have
a chance to get one over Dion Ebrahim.
The Canterbury Cricket performance
squad coach is a former Zimbabwe
international and in recent years has
SPORTS
coached the Canterbury under-19 and
under-17 squads. Dame Patsy Reddy
will attend the event.
The match at Roundhill Rd, Loburn,
commences at 11am.
The Governor-General’s Youth XI:
Mitchell Hay, CBHS; Jesse Frew, STAC;
Rhys Mariu, STAC; Richard Turpie, Christ’s;
Matt Munro, St Bede’s; Nic Lidstone,
Christ’s; Bradley Entwistle, Shirley Boys’
High School; Beckham Greenall-Wheeler,
King’s High School; Ben Lockrose, Otago
Boys’ High School; Jack Mockford, Southland
Boys’ High School; Beau Hourigan,
Wanganui Collegiate; Theo van Woerkom
(captain/coach).
The Willows XI consists of the following:
Dion Ebrahim, Paul McEwan, Andy Ellis,
James Marshall, Hamish Marshall, Ervin
McSweeney, Ewen Chatfield, V. Rev. Mike
Hawke, Dave Kelly, Grant Elliott, Shayne
O’Connor, Andrew Nuttall, Evan Gray.
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Gymnast, 9, for NZ team
• By Andrew King
HALSWELL’S Flynn
Gunther only started
competing in trampoline
12 months ago and now
he is the youngest member
selected in a New Zealand
team heading to compete
in Australia in May.
The 9-year-old first took
up the sport 18 months ago
his father, Tim, said but he
has really taken a liking to
it and is quite good at it.
“He had to set a
qualifying score at a
competition in Rotorua a
few weeks ago, or here in
Christchurch on March
10-11. His score in Rotorua
was not good enough but
he did the business here in
Christchurch,” he said.
Then there was a
nervous wait for the
team selection for the
Australian Gymnastics
Championships which was
confirmed on Friday night.
“He was exhausted and
thrilled at the same time,”
Mr Gunther said.
He has gymnastics flowing
through his blood with his
mother, Nadia, a former
New Zealand representative
in artistic gymnastics when
she was 16.
Flynn will be ticking off
a few firsts this year, after
taking his first domestic
plane flight to compete in
Rotorua, he will now take
his first ever international
flight with the New
Zealand team.
The Seven Oaks Primary
School student trains
with Olympia Gymnastic
Sports in Wigram which
also has 10-year-old twins
Thomas and Lachlan Fisher
competing in the same
event as Flynn.​
The NZ team is:
Men’s doublemini:
Kieran Growcott,
Scott Phillips, Nathan
Monkton, Brendan
Bekker, Blake Costley,
Ethan Strickland, Jack
Jones, Ryan Jefferson,
Samuel Hall, Alex Withers,
Thomas McGann, Thomas
and Lachlan Fisher.
Women’s double-mini:
Alexa Kennedy, Brooke
Teear, Leah Scholefield,
Luisa Birkenhake, Maya
James, Ashleigh Solomann,
Sienna French, Zoe Davis,
Brianna Masterson, Emily
Reeves, Ruby James and
Hadley James.
Men’s trampoline: Blake
Costley, Reegan Laidlaw,
James Dougal, Nathan
Monkton, Liam Costley,
Jakarta Klebert, Jack Jones,
Jackson Stone, Kieran
Growcott, Brendan Bekker,
Ethan Strickland, Regan
Langford, Jack West, Ryan
Jefferson, Lachlan Fisher,
Thomas Fisher and Flynn
Gunther.
Women’s trampoline:
Alexa Kennedy, Rachel
Schmidt, Amelia Greet,
Abigail Mills, Halle Rankin
Hastie, Olivia Cook,
Sienna French, Lauren
Sheere, Cindy Wang, Maya
James, Megan Merrick,
Brooke Teear and Brianna
Masterson.