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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>December</strong> 7 <strong>2022</strong><br />
40<br />
SPORT<br />
Booth’s power-hitting gives<br />
Leeston-Southbridge<br />
comfortable win<br />
COUNTRY cricket swung<br />
into the sport’s shortest<br />
format at the weekend with<br />
the one-day competition<br />
front-runners continuing<br />
their form in the T20s.<br />
There were double<br />
victories for Weedons on<br />
the back of several useful<br />
personal performances.<br />
The stand-out effort of<br />
the round though belonged<br />
to Ethan Booth.<br />
Batting at number six<br />
for Leeston-Southbridge<br />
against Darfield, Booth<br />
smashed an incredible, unbeaten<br />
62 off just 26 balls,<br />
in a swashbuckling innings<br />
Short scorecards:<br />
Oxford-Southbrook<br />
133/5 (D Fulton 46, S<br />
Fleming 32, G Mowat<br />
25, L Waghorn 21; J<br />
Fitzpatrick 2/15)<br />
Beat Cheviot 131 /6<br />
(A Sidey 48no, C Cameron<br />
29; A Singh 2/8, C<br />
Scott 2/24).<br />
Oxford-Southbrook<br />
72 (C Warner 3/6, H<br />
Howell 3/9, M Smith<br />
2/17, M Campbell<br />
2/17)<br />
that included seven sixes.<br />
There was even a rare<br />
win for season-strugglers<br />
Oxford-Southbrook. It may<br />
have been a nervy, tight<br />
victory over the Cheviot<br />
Magpies but it must have<br />
tasted especially sweet.<br />
Batting first, Oxford-<br />
Southbrook notched 133/5<br />
in their allotted 20 overs,<br />
with mainstay David Fulton<br />
again leading the way<br />
with 46.<br />
Fulton was well-backed<br />
through some lusty late<br />
hitting by Gus Mowat (25<br />
runs off 12 balls) and Luke<br />
Waghorn (21 off 9).<br />
Lost to Sefton 73/2<br />
(A Arora 31, M Smith<br />
26no).<br />
Ohoka 88/9 (G<br />
Mauger 24; M Smith<br />
3/18, T Waller 2/14, H<br />
Howell 2/18)<br />
Lost to Sefton 89/3 (L<br />
Taylor 40no).<br />
Weedons 126/5 (J<br />
Benton 50no, S Clarke<br />
21; G Aveyard 2/15, A<br />
Gulati 2/29)<br />
Beat Peninsula-<br />
Harbour 90/9 (D Neal<br />
44no; H D’Arcy 4/5,L<br />
Opening bowler Arshdeep<br />
Singh’s wicked swing<br />
got Oxford-Southbrook off<br />
to a great start, knocking<br />
off both openers cheaply<br />
before Angus Sidey took<br />
charge of the Cheviot chase.<br />
Sidey’s unbeaten 48<br />
off just 34 balls took the<br />
game into the last over but<br />
Oxford-Southbrook held<br />
their nerve to claim their<br />
first win of the season.<br />
However, their luck ran<br />
out in their second match,<br />
suffering a heavy eightwicket<br />
defeat to in-form<br />
Sefton who grabbed two<br />
wins on the day.<br />
Robinson 2/11).<br />
Weedons 120/8 (B<br />
Nightingale 35, J Watson<br />
31; C Webber 3/18,<br />
E Booth 2/24)<br />
Beat Leeston-Southbridge<br />
47 (J Benton<br />
4/9).<br />
Leeston-Southbridge<br />
157/9 (E Booth 62no; L<br />
Foulkes 3/9, D Beatty<br />
2/19)<br />
Beat Darfield 119<br />
(J Frew 34, L Foulkes<br />
20; C Webber 3/18, E<br />
Booth 3/20).<br />
Christmas<br />
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Feature<br />
West Melton Scholarship<br />
continues to inspire<br />
The winner of the <strong>2022</strong> West Melton<br />
Scholarship, Madison Dalgety, was<br />
presented with her scholarship by<br />
Councillor Lydia Glidden at a recent West<br />
Melton School assembly.<br />
As part of her scholarship, Madison<br />
addressed the assembly with fond<br />
memories of her time at the school and<br />
encouraged students to take part in as<br />
many activities as they could throughout<br />
their school years.<br />
Her application detailed her involvement<br />
in sport as a representative hockey player,<br />
in the arts as a performer in St Margaret’s<br />
School productions and as a mentor to<br />
younger people. Madison recently finished<br />
her degree at Otago University and plans to<br />
continue her understanding of how people’s<br />
brains work and how that relates to human<br />
behaviour.<br />
Applications for<br />
2023 now open<br />
The 2023 West Melton Scholarship<br />
is a community-funded scholarship<br />
worth $2000, payable at the start of 2023<br />
academic year. The closing date for next<br />
year’s applications is 24 February, 2023.<br />
Tertiary students are invited to apply<br />
if they have attended West Melton Full<br />
Primary School for at least two years and<br />
are enrolling in 2023 for the last year of a<br />
degree programme at a tertiary institution.<br />
They can apply as soon as they have their<br />
results for this year.<br />
Further details about the Scholarship<br />
and the selection criteria are available<br />
from wmawards@xtra.co.nz or the<br />
Convener, West Melton Scholarship and<br />
Awards Committee, phone 03-318 1761.<br />
Winner of the <strong>2022</strong> West Melton<br />
Scholarship, Madison Dalgety<br />
encourages students at West Melton<br />
School to participate in school activities.<br />
BACKYARD CRITTERS<br />
OVER THE weekend<br />
I noticed several of my<br />
Hebe (genus now called<br />
Veronica) plants riddled<br />
with caterpillars and<br />
looking very scruffy to say<br />
the least.<br />
I have collected some<br />
of the offending larvae<br />
and will try to rear them<br />
through to moth to confirm<br />
their identity.<br />
In the meantime, I<br />
found a moth resting on<br />
one of the Hebes (I prefer<br />
the original name) and<br />
identified it as Amblyptilia<br />
heliastis, which as it turns<br />
out, has Hebe as it’s larval<br />
host plant.<br />
Since then, I noticed<br />
Hebes on the corner of the<br />
Lincoln Challenge service<br />
station also<br />
had the same caterpillars<br />
and damage. It is of course<br />
possible that the larvae and<br />
adult I identified are two<br />
different species, but the<br />
Mike Bowie is an ecologist who specialises in entomology (insects<br />
and other invertebrates). Each week he introduces a new species<br />
found in his backyard at Lincoln. His column aims to raise public<br />
awareness of biodiversity, the variety of living things around us.<br />
Check out the full list of invertebrates found at www.inaturalist.<br />
org/projects/backyard-biodiversity-bugs-in-my-lincoln-section<br />
Watch your garden<br />
for destructive moth<br />
adult is an endemic New<br />
Zealand species.<br />
Adults are T-shaped and<br />
have narrow wings approximately<br />
the thickness of the<br />
abdomen but wider at the<br />
wingtips.<br />
They are light brown<br />
in colour with darker<br />
brown patches including<br />
a triangular one close to<br />
wingtip. They have a 19mm<br />
wingspan.<br />
Adults fly between October<br />
and February and are<br />
usually associated with a<br />
subalpine species of Hebe.<br />
Checking iNaturalist, it<br />
seems my observation is<br />
the southernmost found<br />
to date and eight observations<br />
have been found in<br />
Christchurch.<br />
So, keep an eye out for<br />
damage or caterpillars on<br />
your Hebe plants.<br />
It has been a year marked with significant movements. From the lifting of Covid Traffic<br />
Light System to the lifting of our Womens Rugby World Cup Championship trophy, it has<br />
been a wild ride! Is it done yet? Who knows, we are all working through pressures of rising<br />
cost of living. As we move towards Christmas, the festive season can easily tag along with<br />
it a mood of stress and anxiety. While this may be true, the good news is that anxiety does<br />
not have to be your experience of the festivities. The christian story of Christmas carries<br />
a calming and reassuirng message of joy, love and hope. The boy-child born on Christmas<br />
day, Jesus Christ, is a joy-filling reminder that God is interested in humanity therefore we<br />
don’t have to carry the burdens of life all by ourselves. God invites us into a loving and<br />
secure relationship with Him that no matter what life throws at you, you have a strong<br />
sense of hope that makes you resilient through seasons of life. Feel free to pop into one of<br />
our Christmas services this <strong>December</strong> for a chance to hear more of the Christmas story<br />
and sing some of your favourite carols. Looking forward to connecting with you in person.<br />
CHRISTMAS EVE Services – 24th Dec<br />
Hope Halkett (662 Halkett Rd)<br />
– 9pm (Traditional Service)<br />
Hope West Melton (726 Weedons Rd) – 10:45pm<br />
Hope Hornby (27 Amyes Rd) – 6pm & 9pm<br />
CHRISTMAS DAY Service – 25th Dec<br />
Hope West Melton (726 Weedons Rd) – 9am<br />
Hope Rolleston (11 Tennyson St.) – 9am<br />
Hope Hornby (27 Amyes Rd) – 9am<br />
REGULAR SUNDAY SERVICES<br />
Hope West Melton (726 Weedons Rd) – 9:30am<br />
Hope Halkett - Traditional Service (662 Halkett Rd)<br />
– 11am (Every FIRST Sunday of the month)<br />
Hope Rolleston (11 Tennyson St.) – 10am<br />
Hope Hornby (27 Amyes Rd) – 9am & 10:45am<br />
Contact: info@hopechurch.net.nz | (03) 980 2296 | hopechurch.net.nz
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