Nor'West News: June 11, 2019

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Good performance earns teen
place in Canty indoor cricket squad
• By Tatiana Gibbs
RYAN JAMES topped off
another successful South Island
indoor cricket campaign by
sealing a spot in the Canterbury
premier indoor cricket team for
the second year running.
The 18-year-old former Shirley
Boys’ High School student was
in fine form and, over Queen’s
Birthday weekend, anchored
his team into a last-ball thriller
which saw his Hornby Titans
take out the South Island
indoor cricket championships
at Riccarton’s Howzat! Indoor
Sports Centre.
James’ team defeated
Dunedin’s Metro Muskets 86-83
in a match never lacking in fastpaced
action.
Hornby “had to dig it in’’
for the last four games of the
competition, after a loss to
Central Sharks and Metro
Muskets in the round-robin
games.
Their remaining games were
“must-win matches” to keep
in the running for the final, in
which his team got redemption
against the Muskets to take home
the title.
The Canterbury squads
were selected at the end of the
tournament with James lowering
the team’s average age.
Coach John McCarthy will lead
his team of 11 into the national
indoor cricket championship
later this month at Palmerston
North.
The Canterbury premier men’s
team consists of Ryan James,
Craig Stevens, Micah Campbell,
(Action Hornby) Mitch Gardner,
Taylor Irie, Tom Agnew, Ben
Cochrane, (Howzat Riccarton)
Carl Hooper, Dan Vann,
Tom McDonald and Jackson
Hemingway (Action Central).
James will head north
with Canterbury to compete
against teams from Auckland,
Wellington, Central, Northern
and Southern Districts at the
national tournament.
He is hoping to finish ahead of
last year’s modest fourth-place,
when the team missed out on a
chance at the final by just two
points.
New Zealand indoor cricket
selectors will be on the lookout
at the upcoming national
tournament to select their
SPORT
SUCCESS: The
Canterbury
premier men’s
indoor cricket
championshipwinning
team
(Back row) – Curtis
Millard, Charlie
Fisher, Kyle Burns,
Josh Dyer, Paul
Partridge and
Donovan Hutton.
(Front row) – Harry
Bisphan, Ryan
James, Micah
Campbell and
Craig Stevens.
squads to compete at the 2019
transtasman series, which will be
held in Palmerston North from
September 12-14.
The transtasman series
will have competitive
fixtures across the under-21 boys
and girls, and open
premier men’s and women’s
grades and James’ goal is to
progress from the New Zealand
under-21 team and be selected for
the New Zealand open premier
team.
Burnside and
St Thomas in
top-of-table
football clash
BURNSIDE HIGH School
will take on St Thomas of
Canterbury College tomorrow
in a top-of-the-table schools
premier football match at the
Christchurch Football Centre.
The game will be a rematch
of last year’s final, which saw
St Thomas’ claim the title 2-1.
Burnside have won four of their
five games this season to sit
second on the table. Their first
dropped points came in a 1-1
draw with third-placed Papanui
High School at English Park last
week.
Meanwhile, after six games St
Thomas’ have been untouchable.
They are unbeaten, scoring 36
goals and conceding none. In
their last match, they hammered
Middleton Grange 8-0, with
captain Tom Stewart scoring a
hat-trick.
A win for either team
tomorrow night will provide a
massive boost to their chances
of qualifying for the boys Lotto
premier secondary school
tournament in Napier later this
year.
Kick off is at 5.30pm.
•Other fixtures: Cashmere
v Rangiora; Christ’s College v
Papanui, Middleton Grange v
CBHS, St Andrew’s v Lincoln,
St Bede’s v Riccarton.
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