Selwyn_Times: March 15, 2023

Selwyn Times Wednesday March 15 2023
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Cheviot win by
one wicket after
batting collapse
CHEVIOT overcame Darfield
in a low-scoring country cricket
battle on Saturday.
A five-wicket haul from
Cheviot Magpies’ Will Anderson
helped reduce Darfield to
124 in the first innings of their
Canterbury Country Premier
One Day competition.
An aggressive half-century
from makeshift opener Scott
Burnett, after he’d taken three
wickets with the ball, had
Cheviot cruising to victory
at 90/4. But when Burnett
succumbed to Liam Foulkes’ offspin
for 52, it sparked a massive
Magpies collapse, losing three
wickets for no runs.
Batting at No 11, it was left to
Johnny Fitzpatrick, who made an
unbeaten 17 off 28 to secure the
one-wicket win in the 33rd over.
At Mandeville, visitors
Peninsula-Harbour batted first
and made 214/5 in their allotted
45 overs. They were led by a
composed Dominic Evans who
opened the batting, finishing on
89 not out off 141 balls.
Ohoka on the back of a
commanding knock from DJ
Lyons chased down the score
with six overs and five wickets in
hand.
Lyons, batting at No 3, made
short work of the combined side’s
bowling, smacking 92 off just 64,
including 19 boundaries.
In the other two games of
the round, Weedons thumped
Oxford-Rangiora-Southbrook by
82 runs, while Sefton dispatched
a depleted Leeston-Southbridge
by 85 runs.
Short scorecard:
•Darfield 124 (J McIntyre; W
Anderson 5/41, S Burnett 3/26, T
Fitzpatrick 2/22) lost to Cheviot
125/9 (S Burnett 52; L Foulkes 5/33,
W Greenslade 2/22).
•Peninsula-Harbour 214/5 (D
Evans 89no; D Coles 2/38) lost to
Ohoka 215/5 (D Lyons 92, D Coles
26, T Hatton 20;D Neal 2/36, J
Williams 2/58).
•Weedons 228/7 (J Benton 61no,
C Robson 54, B Nightingale 44, M
Grafton 39; N Cook 3/40, L Waghorn
2/47) beat Oxford-Rangiora-
Southbrook 146 (C Scott 42, D
Fulton 27, L Waghorn 25; J Benton
3/21, C Robson 3/31, H D’Arcy
2/38).
•Sefton 272/8 (M Smith 73,
L Taylor 70, M Campbell 24; T
Burt 3/37, W Williams 2/55) beat
Leeston-Southbridge 187 (B Hill
64, D Munro 57, C Beatson 25; B
Moore 3/37, M Campbell 2/17, C
Warner 2/32).
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VICTORY: Leeston mare She’s Tough had a convincing win at the Inangahua-Grey Valley
Cup (2500m).
She’s Tough best on the west
• By Joshua Smith
SHE’S TOUGH showed her
aptitude for the West Coast
climate when scoring at Reefton
on Sunday.
The Brad Mowbray-trained
mare from Leeston was victorious
at Westport on Friday and
backed up with a convincing
win in the Inangahua-Grey Valley
Cup (2500m) two days later.
The daughter of He’s Watching
once again showed her
brilliance from a stand, stepping
away quickly from behind the
10m tape to take an early lead
for driver Kimberly Butt.
She soon handed up the lead
to Copperhead Rose, trained
out of Greg Manson’s Lincoln
barn, and enjoyed the trail for
the rest of the journey before
she was asked to improve down
the home straight and proved
too tough for her rival, securing
a 2-1/4 length victory, with a
further 7-1/2 lengths back to Just
Holla in third.
Mowbray was
duly rapt with
the result. “Her
manners came to
the fore. She got
herself into the
perfect spot and
Brad
Mowbray
everything went
to plan,” he said.
“It was the first
time she had
backed up two days later, so you
are always a little bit concerned,
but she obviously took no harm
out of the first day.”
It was the first time Mowbray
has campaigned a horse on the
West Coast and he now plans on
heading across the alps more often
but admits it will be hard to
maintain his 100 per cent winning
strike rate in the region.
“She obviously enjoys the
climate over there. We’ll have to
head over there more often with
her now,” he said.
“A 100 per cent strike rate is
great, but it can only go downhill
now.”
She’s Tough has now earned
a couple of days in the paddock
while Mowbray works out her
next steps.
“It is a quiet enough time and
she has gone up plenty of points
so it will be hard to figure out
where to place her now,” he said.
A day prior, Mowbray was
in Southland campaigning a
team of three horse and came
home with a placing courtesy of
Almighty Clever.
“Almighty Clever went well,
but obviously the winner was
too good,” Mowbray said.
“He is going in the right
direction and we will have a fair
bit of fun with him.”
– Harness News Desk
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