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Sport No need for fourth day • By Steve Hepburn RULES ARE rules but there was simply no consideration to stay on the field and end Canterbury’s Plunket Shield game against Otago on Sunday. It took just 10min and 18 balls on Monday – the last day of the four-day match – at the University of Otago Oval for Canterbury to win their first Plunket Shield game of the summer. Canterbury needed 15 runs to win the game in their second innings and when stumps were pulled on Sunday night, they were six runs short, having lost the wicket of opener Michael Davidson. Commonsense would suggest on a beautiful Dunedin night the teams would have just stayed out for a few extra minutes and played out the game as there was only going to be one result. But it was ruled by the officials the teams had to leave the field. The teams came back out on SHORT STAY: Canterbury Batsman Ken McClure shakes hands with Otago players following his side’s win on Monday morning. Monday and after a couple of maidens by the Otago bowlers, Canterbury batsman Ken McClure hit a four, and then a push through square leg gained the two runs needed for victory. Match referee Gary Baxter said although it would seem like commonsense to have kept playing on Sunday, the rules had to be adhered to and play had to end. Canterbury had already claimed the extra 30min on Sunday to try to finish the game but could not quite seal the victory then. Baxter said the playing conditions had to be followed as there were The Star other shield games being played. If the game was played out on Sunday night and then it rained yesterday, it could be argued Canterbury won by an unfair advantage, while other teams stayed within the rules. However, Baxter said both teams wanted to play on. He may write something about the incident in his match report as there was a monetary cost of going into a fourth day. But as it stood, he was comfortable with the decision. 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Ten years ago AmPro Tools Woodford Glen Speedway hosted the New Zealand SuperStock Championship, Speedway New Zealand’s most prestigious National event to host and ten years on Woodford Glen will again be hosting the biggest speedway show of the year. Twelve months ago at Auckland’s Waikaraka Park, a second generation racer from Palmerston North stood atop the podium and was crowned New Zealand SuperStock Champion. William Humphries was that driver will be doing his utmost to defend his title in January at Woodford Glen but with over 90 other entrants from all over New Zealand wanting the same silverware and the coveted ‘1NZ’ on their car, it will be a very tough ask. That’s not to say Humphries will not still be champion either, but the odds are certainly stacked against that happening. Only three drivers in the history of this championship have ever gone back to back since the championships inception back in 1965! The championship will basically be decided thus; the entrants are divided into four equally seeded groups, and after three heats the top six from each group will proceed directly to the second night. Any tie on points that affects the number of cars transferring will be dealt with by way of a 4-lap run-off. A pair of repechages will be raced to find the final two lucky qualifiers. Night two is simple, 26 cars and three races, each driver basically receiving a front-middleback row grid at some stage of the evening. The driver that accumulates the most points wins. See, I told you it was simple! But believe me, there will be a lot more that goes into it between the first green flag and that final chequered, both on the track and in the pits. On current form local hopes must rest with the likes of Asher Rees, Jayden Ward and of course past New Zealand Champion Malcolm Ngatai who incidentally claimed the 1NZ plate 10 years ago at home and is the only Woodford Glen driver to have ever won this championship. Another local who would ordinarily be among the favourites to win is Jamie Hamilton but he hasn’t been seen much at all this season. In fact at the time of writing he had only raced one meeting and his usually reliable car didn’t fire a shot in the first race of the night and wasn’t seen during the night again. He will have his work cut out to get on pace with the others. This is the ‘Big Show of 2019’ The Suck it Up Ltd New Zealand SuperStock Championship, Friday and Saturday January 4th & 5th. Get your tickets now at www.iticket.co.nz
The Star Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Thursday December 20 2018 35 local sport Proudly brought to you by... Tower JuncTion Phone: 348 6020 Open 7 days 11am to late www.speightstowerjunction.co.nz MAKING HISTORY: St Albans became the first club to win 10 premier metro cricket one-day titles. Two finals, one result St Albans win cricket title, sprinklers rain on Heathcote • By Gordon Findlater IT WAS a tale of two very different matches in the metro cricket one-day finals on Sunday. At Hospital Corner, St Albans claimed the premiership one-day cup with a four-wicket win over East Christchurch Shirley. But at Heathcote Domain, the championship one-day final between Heathcote and Merivale-Papanui was washed out because the sprinkler system turned on in the early hours of Sunday. The Saints win saw them create history, becoming the first team to win 10 premier one-day titles. Bowling first, they restricted East Christchurch Shirley to 140/9. Captain Ben Langrope, James Tapper, Jack Harper and Matt Holstein took two wickets each for Saints. After being introduced in the 23rd • By Gordon Findlater TE KURA Hagley Park has been recognised as the country’s top tennis club less than two years after it was formed following a merger. The Te Kura and Hagley Park clubs merged last year with discussions around the move starting just 12 months earlier. Last week it was named club of the year at the Tennis New Zealand awards in Auckland. Club president Tim Preston believes the success of completing what was at times a challenging merger played a big part in their recognition. “It’s effectively like a wedding ceremony. You do the actual process and then you figure out all the hard stuff after. We were married over, Holstein bowled 10 overs on the trot, conceding just nine runs to completely halt East Christchurch Shirley. After losing two early wickets in their chase, Saints were steered to victory by Tyler Lorton with 63 from 92 balls. They will now host Mid- Canterbury side Lauriston on January 6, with the winner going into the regional final a week later against the winner of the South Canterbury v Canterbury Country match. The winner will represent Canterbury at April’s national club championships in Auckland. Meanwhile, the non-event at Heathcote Domain will be rescheduled to an undetermined date in January. “The council went in and did some work on Friday. They went into our toby box and changed at our club’s AGM, just over a year ago, and we’ve been running as a merged club since,” he said. “Working out how to operate practically has been a constant voyage of discovery since, really.” Te Kura Hagley Park beat out Wellington’s Kilbirnie to win the award. Preston says the club’s 22 lawn tennis courts gives it a point of difference. “We’re the only club in New Zealand with a viable quantity of lawn courts in a major centre that is practical for high level competition now,” said Preston. “We run a lot of our junior programmes on the lawn courts, which they seem to enjoy and love. Running around on the the settings on our sprinklers. So on Sunday morning, they went on when everyone was tucked up in bed,” said Heathcote club captain David Stack. “We tried for a few hours to get the pitch up to scratch but it was just way too wet – there were still puddles out there.” After being understandably sombre about the situation, the mood of the Heathcote and Merivale-Papanui players was lifted when they headed to the Valley Inn Tavern for some very premature post-match drinks at noon. “We wanted to do a boat race at the pub to decide the title but the Papanui Merivale guys weren’t so keen,” said Heathcote bowler Ben Cochrane. Heathcote then spent the afternoon playing backyard cricket before returning to the Valley Inn for dinner. Young club scoops top tennis award Tim Preston lawn is more conducive to young kids having fun than running around on astroturf or hard court surfaces.” Preston is hopeful the unique asset of lawn courts in Hagley Park could lead to high profile events at the club. It also has two plexipave hard courts and two astroturf courts at the club’s Hagley Park site and four plexipave courts at the Te Kura site at Christchurch Boys’ High School. The club is hopeful it will be able to continue using the courts at the Te Kura site. However, the future of the arrangement with the CBHS is uncertain. Te Kura Hagley Park currently has 342 members. “From our members’ point of view they get the choice of where they’d like to play and they’ll use both facilities depending on what suits them at the time and what surface they’d like to play on.” HOW HIGHLY should we rate Canterbury United’s fourth national women’s league football title in the span of six years? The Pride’s 3-2 extra-time win over the Northern Lights on Sunday was the latest proof that Canterbury is leading the way in the women’s game. Should we embrace this team on the same level as our ever dominant Crusaders? Or do we play it down? There’s a few factors to consider when writing off an accomplishment like the Pride’s. We have many teams which achieve on the national front, but often can easily play down the fact they’re either competing in a minority sport and/or in a sport we fail to compete in globally. This isn’t the case with the Pride. They compete in what is globally the biggest game, and our national women’s team are currently ranked 19th in the world. With our under-17 team recently winning a bronze medal at the FIFA under-17 women’s World Cup, the future for the senior team looks bright. There’s no denying the rise of women’s sport. When Kendra Cocksedge won the Kelvin R Tremain Memorial Trophy for the best player, male or female, at the New Zealand Rugby Awards last week, a message was sent from those involved in our biggest national game about the regard in which the women’s game is now held. Our women footballers should be very excited by this. New Zealand has a good One-eyed Cantab Gordon Findlater gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi Pride prove NZ women’s football is in good shape track record of leading the way when it comes to these types of issues. So there’s every reason to believe the profile of women’s football – particularly in Europe where the men’s game is treated like a religion – is only going to grow in leaps and bounds. Close to home, there’s still a hurdle we need to overcome that can be simply summed up with the “why are you watching women’s football” remark one of my flatmates made when entering the lounge during Sunday’s final. One thing astounded me when looking at the details from Sunday’s final. Entry to The Trusts Arena in Auckland was free for the first hour of the match. Why only the first hour? Because it was followed by the men’s national league game between Waitakere United and Hamilton Wanderers, which cost $10 to enter. Is it wrong to blatantly undersell a women’s final against a men’s round-robin match? Yes, we should factor in the entertainment value; there’s no denying the men’s game is played at a far higher pace. However, surely we should also factor in the relativity of how competitive we are on the global scale. Our men’s team are ranked 103 in the world, our women are 122. With Canterbury setting the example nationally, New Zealand set to play in next year’s FIFA women’s World Cup and Australia confirming a bid to host the tournament in 2023, this is a hype train to jump on board. CHAMPS: Chloe Jones and Rebecca Lake helped the Pride to their fourth national women’s league football title.
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