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Thursday <strong>January</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Sport<br />
Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
in brief<br />
Balchin wins back<br />
Lovelock Mile title<br />
Daniel Balchin has regained his<br />
Lovelock Mile title after three<br />
years. <strong>The</strong> 28-year-old Canterbury<br />
University runner claimed a<br />
convincing victory in the feature<br />
race at the Lovelock Classic in<br />
Timaru on Saturday. His time of<br />
4min 13.40sec left him nearly 6sec<br />
ahead of second-placed Leuan<br />
van der Peet. It was the third time<br />
Balchin has won the title.<br />
NZ age group tennis<br />
title for Falck<br />
Christchurch’s Reece Falck won<br />
the 16 and under New Zealand<br />
junior tennis title after defeating<br />
Rotorua’s Nick Beamish 7-6, 6-3 in<br />
Auckland.<br />
Avon Rowing Club life<br />
member passes away<br />
Avon Rowing Club life member<br />
and former club president Ray<br />
• By Gordon Findlater<br />
TWO YEARS ago Cheviot<br />
were struggling to put together<br />
a team in the second tier of<br />
country cricket, now they’re<br />
a win away from representing<br />
Canterbury at the national club<br />
championships.<br />
After gaining promotion<br />
to the Canterbury country<br />
premier competition in 2017,<br />
they went on to win the one-day<br />
competition last year.<br />
On Sunday they defeated<br />
South Canterbury champs<br />
Temuka and will now face<br />
Christchurch metro winners St<br />
Albans for a spot in the national<br />
week-long tournament in<br />
Auckland in April.<br />
Cheviot’s rise to prominence<br />
has come about due to a<br />
combination of former junior<br />
players returning to the club<br />
after high school, such as<br />
captain Harry Fitzpatrick, who<br />
has represented Canterbury at<br />
under-19 level.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y have also been aided<br />
by some smart recruiting<br />
from Sidey brothers, with Les Henry Mills<br />
CITY<br />
(Charlie) Flanagan has passed away<br />
aged 72. Flanagan started rowing<br />
with the club as a novice<br />
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in 1967.<br />
One of his early highlights was a<br />
win in the eight under coach Fred<br />
Strachan in 1971. He went on to<br />
win the champion eights in 1976 at<br />
Lake Karapiro and had a successful and Charlie, who convinced<br />
coaching career. A service for a number of their former<br />
Flanagan will be held at St Mary’s Christchurch Boys’ High<br />
Pro-Cathedral at 11am on Friday. School teammates to join<br />
<strong>The</strong> unexpected rise of Cheviot<br />
BIG KNOCK: Henry Workman finished unbeaten on 75<br />
to help Cheviot to a seven-wicket win over Temuka on<br />
Sunday.<br />
them at their boyhood club<br />
following school. A large chunk<br />
of Cheviot’s team is now made<br />
up of players who were part of<br />
CBHS’s back-to-back Gillette<br />
Cup-winning teams of 2016 and<br />
2017.<br />
“Boys’ High finished their<br />
season and then my cousins<br />
grabbed Ben Hartland and Jack<br />
Harris to come and play for us.<br />
A few of us older boys were keen<br />
to let the young guys take over,<br />
so they brought more of them<br />
out,” said club vice-president<br />
Sam Sidey.<br />
<strong>The</strong> latest CBHS product to<br />
make the move to Cheviot is<br />
promising rugby and cricket<br />
star Louie Chapman, who is<br />
set to debut for the team at the<br />
weekend.<br />
<strong>The</strong> connection to CBHS<br />
doesn’t end there. <strong>The</strong> school’s<br />
coach Mark Lane has also<br />
recently started working with<br />
the premier team.<br />
“I think it’s all about playing<br />
with your mates . . . they have<br />
a bloody good time off the field<br />
and I think that makes its way<br />
onto the field,” said Sidey.<br />
Cheviot have made a major<br />
transition from three years ago<br />
when lettuce-pickers and other<br />
seasonal workers in the area,<br />
with little cricket experience,<br />
would often help make up<br />
numbers.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> standard of cricket<br />
in the Canterbury country<br />
competition has improved<br />
immensely over the last couple<br />
of years . . . you go back three<br />
or four years ago and you<br />
would never hear of these<br />
young guns like Ben Hartland<br />
or Louie Chapman thinking<br />
about coming out to play in the<br />
country,” said Sidey.<br />
Cheviot will go into the final<br />
next Sunday as considerable<br />
underdogs against a classy St<br />
Albans outfit.<br />
St Albans created history last<br />
month by becoming the first<br />
team to win <strong>10</strong> premier oneday<br />
Christchurch metro titles.<br />
Cheviot are currently third in<br />
the Canterbury country one-day<br />
competition with three wins and<br />
two losses.<br />
“As a group, we’re quietly<br />
confident but we’re going to take<br />
the underdog tag into the game,”<br />
said Sidey.<br />
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