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The Star Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Thursday August 16 2018 31 Sport • By Gordon Findlater DIPS IN form from the top two sides have left this weekend’s UC Championship semi-finals wide open. A fortnight ago Christchurch Boys’ High School and Christ’s College stood out as the two clear favourites in the competition. However, CBHS’ 33-35 loss to Rangiora High School earlier this month and Christ’s 15-20 loss to Timaru Boys’ High School on Saturday have signalled the favourites can be triumphed. This Saturday Christ’s host St Bede’s College while CBHS will be looking for redemption when they host Rangiora in the other semi-final. CBHS captain Louie Chapman believes playing Rangiora again will provide extra motivation for the defending champions. “We know they’re a great side and they showed that when they knocked us over,” said Chapman. “They’re a really physical team . . . they came in with a full head of steam and that’s probably why they won the match.” It’s not just a spot in the UC Championship final that is at stake for CBHS and Rangiora. The do or die game will see the Moascar Cup – New Zealand’s equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield – up for grabs. The Trust Bank Cup – the South Island equivalent – which Rangiora won from CBHS will also be up for grabs. Chapman pointed towards FEED THE BACKS: After a sobering experience against Rangiora 12 days ago CBHS captain Louie Chapman is hoping his side can find a full head of steam for Saturday’s semifinal. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER Form slump leaves semis with no clear favourite defence as a work on this week as his side look to turn the tables on the result 12 days ago. “If you let in 35 points against any team like we did against Rangiora you’re going to have a tough time beating them,” said Chapman. Going off round-robin results the semi-final between Christ’s and St Bede’s should be just as intriguing. When the two teams met in June Christ’s narrowly took the spoils 23-17. Both matches at CBHS and Christ’s kick off at 2.45pm. Coxswain Bocock makes rowing history • By Jacob Page AVON’S NATALIE Bocock has become the first woman to cox a men’s crew to a medal at world championship level. The 21-year-old won a silver medal with the men’s coxed four, which included her Avon clubmate Ben Taylor at the under-23 world championships in Poznan, Poland. The former St Margaret’s pupil was a novice rower in her first year in year 9 before making the transition to being a coxswain in year 10. Her former rowing coach at St Margaret’s, Trudy Keys said she always showed an aptitude for the role. “After her first year of being in a novice crew, her light weight meant she made the decision to be a cox,” she said. “She always had a commanding presence about her and she grew into being a leader with our squad and the school,” Keys said. In her final Maadi Cup national secondary schools regatta on Lake Ruataniwha near Twizel, in 2014, Bocock was awarded the Simon Briggs Trophy for top coxswain at the regatta. She collected eight Maadi Cup medals over her four campaigns, one as a rower and three as a coxswain with three gold medals, two silvers and three bronzes. Since then, she has been part of the Southern Regional High Performance Centre where she has gone on to represent New Zealand at international agegroup level. Keys said Bocock was a natural competitor and that likely helped her make the move to a men’s boat. “She’s very determined and she got some good mentoring while she was here and passed that on to Lucy Davidson who is now rowing at Otago University.” Give the championship final a worthy venue FOR THE second year in a row the UC Championship final is destined to be played at the home ground of the top qualifying finalist instead of the traditional venue Rugby Park. Why you ask? Well there doesn’t appear to be any major wall preventing it from happening other than there being a worry the pitch could be made heavy for its use as Canterbury’s home training ground and because hosting a home final gives the top qualifier a reward for their work earlier in the year. It was bad enough we had to host this year’s Super Rugby final in the giant marquee at Addington held together by Blu-Tack and goodwill. Why shouldn’t One-eyed Cantab Gordon Findlater gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi we let the region’s secondary school final be played at a venue it deserves. Last year’s final saw a move away from Rugby Park when Christchurch Boys’ High School hosted Timaru Boys’ High School. The spectacle was nothing on its final predecessors at Rugby Park – which are some of the best atmospheres I’ve witnessed at a game of rugby – and unfortunately it looks like this may not be a one off. The final needs Rugby Park, especially if we get the match-up we’ve been wanting but denied for the past two years. Saturday is the third year in a row traditional rivals CBHS and Christ’s have qualified one and two for the play-offs. But, we are yet to get what would undoubtedly be one of the most hyped matches of rugby in Christchurch in years . . . surely the stage is deserving of Rugby Park. Heck I’d even have it at the Addington marquee and use next Saturday’s Canterbury v Wellington Mitre 10 Cup match as a curtain-raiser. Speaking of the Canterbury match . . . The Canterbury Rugby Football Union has already moved next weekend’s UC Championship final from Saturday to Sunday so it doesn’t clash with Canterbury’s match with Wellington. However, is that in itself a fair enough reason to move the game to Sunday? As far as I’m aware Sky are able to film both games, so where is the clash? There’s likely two reasons. There’s a good chance Christ’s College – who are coached by Canterbury assistant coach Reuben Thorne – will be playing in the final. The man has accomplished a lot but even he isn’t capable of being in two different places at ones. The other reason is likely to make sure the Mitre 10 Cup game doesn’t miss out on ticket sales. In that case you would think the least the CRFU could do is offer up Rugby Park for Sunday’s big match as a token gesture. Come on CRFU, let these boys play on a stage worthy of what for many of them will be the biggest game they ever compete in.
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