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Wednesday <strong>November</strong> <strong>21</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Sumner’s bad run continues<br />
in cricket championship<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
SUMNER SUFFERED their<br />
third defeat of the season in their<br />
top-of-the-table clash with local<br />
rivals Heathcote.<br />
In spite of two consecutive oneday<br />
defeats, Sumner player-coach<br />
Dan Vann remained positive.<br />
“We are still reasonably<br />
confident, we have just had two<br />
bad weeks, the last week we had<br />
to play on a wet pitch and that<br />
didn’t turn out too well. This<br />
week we just dropped too many<br />
catches and didn’t bowl straight<br />
enough.”<br />
Heathcote batted first at St<br />
Leonards Park and made an<br />
aggressive start with 72/2 after 10<br />
overs.<br />
Heathcote’s Matt House did<br />
most of the damage with 113,<br />
while several players made starts.<br />
Sumner’s Nawid Mohamady<br />
bowled well, but it was Jonny<br />
Percasky (2/41) and Dan Vann<br />
(3/55) who pulled the run rate<br />
back to put Heathcote under<br />
some pressure.<br />
In spite of a resurgence from<br />
Sumner, Heathcote still managed<br />
to finish on an imposing 324/8.<br />
Vann said their next training<br />
would focus on fielding after<br />
several dropped catches from<br />
Sumner.<br />
Sumner made an equally positive<br />
start with the bat and were in a<br />
better position than Heathcote at<br />
the 10 over mark on 82/2.<br />
GOT HIM: Sumner’s Jonny Percasky (middle) celebrates with<br />
his teammates after getting a wicket in their defeat to rivals<br />
Heathcote.<br />
SPORTS<br />
However, wickets fell too<br />
regularly, meaning the large<br />
chase became too much.<br />
Opener and overseas player<br />
Tom Davie (36) and Dan Vann<br />
(30) were the main contributors<br />
but Sumner eventually fell well<br />
short to be all out for 163.<br />
After what Vann described as<br />
“another bad day at the office,” he<br />
remains confident they can reach<br />
the finals.<br />
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“The top is pretty close. If we<br />
win the next two games, we’ll<br />
be in the semis and more then<br />
likely see them (Heathcote) in the<br />
final.”<br />
Sumner will look to bounce<br />
back and show their early season<br />
form when they play Lancaster<br />
Park at the weekend and Burnside<br />
the following week to secure<br />
a semi-final berth.<br />
Sumner’s Presidential team<br />
was the only one not to play over<br />
the long weekend as The Mighty<br />
enjoyed a substantial win over<br />
Riccarton and The Blues beat<br />
Marist-Harewood.<br />
National school for<br />
Sumner lifeguards<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE <strong>21</strong><br />
MEMBERS OF the Sumner<br />
Surf Life Saving Club will take<br />
part in the upcoming National<br />
Lifeguard School.<br />
Lifeguard Jake Simpson will<br />
be upskilled to Surf Life Saving<br />
New Zealand’s highest qualification,<br />
Advanced Lifeguard<br />
Award.<br />
Fellow Sumner lifeguards Kate<br />
Suter, Tom Denman and Toni<br />
Cranko will instruct and mentor<br />
at the school.<br />
Twenty lifeguards from<br />
around the country will be<br />
learning about some of the more<br />
difficult and demanding emergency<br />
situations surf lifeguards<br />
can face, including mass rescue<br />
scenarios, helicopter operations,<br />
search and rescue operations<br />
and working alongside other<br />
agencies including NZ Police,<br />
Fire and Emergency, and St<br />
John in complex scenarios and<br />
technical rescues.<br />
The school takes place from<br />
December 7 to 9, at Fitzroy<br />
Beach, New Plymouth, where<br />
candidates will be taught theory<br />
and practical skills, run through<br />
acted scenarios, and tested physically<br />
and mentally, to attain the<br />
Advanced Lifeguard Award.<br />
Surf Life Saving New Zealand<br />
national education manager<br />
Belinda Slement said there was<br />
46 applications for the 20 spots<br />
at the school, so attendees were<br />
“the cream of the crop.”<br />
“They’re already out there sav-<br />
ELITE: Lifeguards during one<br />
of the elite training exercises<br />
at last year’s National<br />
Lifeguard School. <br />
ing lives on our beaches before<br />
they reach this school, but going<br />
to this level will ultimately help<br />
their local beaches a lot safer.”<br />
Mrs Slement said the intensive<br />
and action-packed school gives<br />
the volunteers the chance to try<br />
the new skills and see how situations<br />
might play out, with expert<br />
instructors able to guide them<br />
and talk them through examples<br />
from actual rescues.<br />
“Around the country, surf lifeguards<br />
get faced with a varied<br />
level of complex situations, and<br />
these advanced lifeguards will<br />
be skilled in how to direct their<br />
patrol members when challenging<br />
situations happen.’’<br />
Last season 5200 volunteer<br />
SLSNZ lifeguards nationally<br />
clocked up more than 230,000<br />
patrol hours on the beach,<br />
carried out 1062 rescues for<br />
people in life-threatening<br />
situations and helped another<br />
2375 people in potentially<br />
dangerous situations.
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