Selwyn Times: January 27, 2021

Selwyn Times Wednesday January 27 2021
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SPORT
WEEDONS squeaked a thrilling
one-wicket win over rivals
Lincoln in the latest round of
country cricket on Saturday.
There were also hard-earned
victories for Darfield and Ohoka
while Sefton thumped a depleted
Leeston-Southbridge to consolidate
their lead at the top of the
CRV Ambreed Country Premier
One Day 2020/21 competition.
Lincoln won the toss and
elected to bat on their home
domain but were soon ruing the
decision when Arnav Deb struck
with his second ball.
They were then in all sorts of
trouble at 34/6, with Dev, the
competition’s top wicket-taker
with 28, claimed his second fivewicket
bag of the season.
A battling unbeaten 36 from
86 balls from Hugh Paterson
helped Lincoln to post 108 before
they were bowled out in the
42nd over.
But the tiny total proved a real
challenge for Weedons, losing
wickets throughout their chase.
Akshan and Akshay Gulati
bowled tightly to combine for
four wickets, while Edgar Paterson
chipped out three more, and
when Weedons’ ninth wicket
fell they still needed 11 runs for
victory.
The cool head of Charlie Robson,
however, steered Weedons
home, with an unbeaten knock
of 22 off 43 balls to claim the win
in the 33rd over.
Ohoka also made hard work of
their run chase against Oxford-
Rangiora at Pearson Park’s oval
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Hard-earned win for Weedons against Lincoln
on Saturday.
The home XI batted first to
post a competitive 183/7, led by
Dave Fulton’s composed 76.
Kyle Brown, returning to
top-flight club cricket after time
away from the game, played a
match-winning knock coming
in at number eight.
Brown smashed an unbeaten
47 from just 43 balls to lift
Ohoka over the line with three
overs to spare.
A savage century by Sefton
opener McKenzie Smith set-up
a spectacular 160-run win over
top-of-the-table rivals Leeston-
Southbridge at Leeston Park.
Leeston-Southbridge, with many
key players away on Canterbury
Country representative duties,
were put to the sword by Smith
who flailed 107 off just 58 balls.
The remarkable 84min innings
included nine fours and eight
sixes.
Five wickets for Will
Greenslade helped Darfield
defend 178 against Cheviot.
Cullen Moody’s 46 was
Darfield’s top-score after they
elected to bat at the neutral
Mandeville ground.
Southbrook had the bye.
Short scorecards:
Lincoln 108 (H Paterson 36no,
R Sporke 20; A Deb 5/30, H
D’Arcy 2/20)
Lost to Weedons 109/9 (C
Robson 22no; E Paterson 3/24).
Oxford-Rangiora 183/7 (D
Fulton 76, L Stove 38, J Fleming
23no; H Williams 3/24, K Brown
3/55)
Lost to Ohoka 184/7 (K Brown
47no, R Kelly 23, H Fitzpatrick
22; J Waghorn 3/39, M Murphy
2/30).
Sefton 301 (M Smith 107, T
Harrison 54no, N Granger 42,
C Warner 25, M Laffey 25; T
Burt 4/56, T Klingender 2/24, B
Chamberlain 2/46)
Beat Leeston-Southbridge
141/9 (C Beatson 35, T Field
23no, J McSweeney 21; C Simpson
5/35, J Roberts 3/32).
Darfield 178 (C Moody 46, T
Boyle 31, J Frew 27, M Hogan
25; A Redfern 2/15, S Burnett
2/23)
Beat Cheviot 135 (A Redfern
31, J Harris 31; W Greenslade
5/33, C Moody 2/5, L Foulkes
2/30).
Californian great for Ruapuna
• By Allan Batt
ONE OF California’s all-time
sprintcar greats Jonathon
Allard is a surprise entry for
the upcoming Gold Cup race
that will be held at Ruapuna
Speedway over Waitangi
weekend.
Allard’s wife is from Auckland
and the family split their time
between New Zealand and the
US. But with Covid restrictions
in place, he has remained in
New Zealand for the past year.
His intentions were originally
just to race to race at Auckland
and Tauranga. However, the
lucrative Gold Cup race has
tempted Allard and his team to
travel south, in a bid to regain
the event that he won in 2017.
Allard is a three-time winner
of the famed King of the
West Series that is contested in
Northern California, which is
one of the hot-beds of American
sprintcar racing.
He has made two previous
visits to Ruapuna, winning
the 2017 Gold Cup, while in a
previous ‘trip south’ he finished
second in the New Zealand
Sprintcar Championship. In
recent times he has also travelled
to Christchurch to assist the
Duff Motorsport team.
Organisers are ‘over the moon’
at having also enticed a number
of top North Island drivers south
for the two nights of racing with
former national champions
Dean Brindle (Hamilton), Jamie
Larsen (Palmerston North) and
Jamie McDonald (Auckland
being joined by veteran Skinny
Colson (Tauranga) and young
Wellingtonian Stephen Taylor.
The South Island charge is
likely to be lead by the Duff
brothers – Jamie and Stephen.
Jamie, a former national champion
is also a former two-time
winner of the Gold Cup and he
has been in fine form recently,
OPPOSITE
LOCK:
Jonathon
Allard has
entered his
sprintcar in
Waitangi
Weekend’s
Gold Cup meet
at Ruapuna.
while a new chassis in Stephen’s
car has allowed him to return to
a front-running position.
Matthew Leversedge, a
Christchurch racer who bases
his activities at Western Springs
Auckland, returns ‘home’ for the
event while a surprise package
could be long-time midget car
racer David Kerr who recently
appeared in an ageing sprintcar,
and won last weekend’s feature.
Meanwhile, Prebbleton racer
Jeremy Webb fell short in his bid
to grab a history-setting result
when he finished fourth in last
weekend’s New Zealand TQ
Grand Prix and second in the
South Island Midget Car Championship
at the weekend.
Webb’s TQ campaign got off
to a bad start when he failed to
finish his first heat.
He recovered and with two
laps to go in the final, Webb
made a decisive move into third
place, however, a caution light
was displayed for a slowing car,
nullifying the move.
He was restarted in fourth
place, which is where he finished
behind the Auckland trio
of Kaleb Currie, Troy Pennington
and Aaron Humble.
In the midget car event Webb
finished second to Jack Low
with Southbridge driver Tom
Lumsden third.
Rowson chalks
up another
bowls title
LINCOLN’S MARTIN Rowson
has won another Ellesmere men’s
singles bowls championship.
Rowson beat Chris Dalzell
(Dunsandel) in tricky conditions
in the final
played at
Lincoln,
Dalzell conceding
the
match on the
14th end.
It was the
fourth time
Rowson has
lifted the
title in seven
years.
Dalzell
took an early
5-1 lead but
Rowson Martin Rowson
came back
and the game sat fairly even for
a number of ends until Rowson
took a 12-8 lead at the 13th and
picked up another point on the
14th to take what would be an
unassailable five-point lead.
Sixteen bowlers contested the
title, with six qualifying or the
knockout stage after winning
three of their four matches.