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Friday, December 11, 2015
Ashburton Guardian 19
■ GOLF
Heat on to fill last semi-final berth North Harbour, Canterbury and Bay of Plenty have secured semifinal berths at the 2015 women’s Toro golf Interprovincials in Ashburton. The three sides have played a great brand of golf throughout the week and were rewarded yesterday with the early knowledge they are in the top four. North Harbour were the first team to hear the news with their unbeaten run continuing yesterday to complete a five from five record. They put on a clinic in the afternoon with a 5-0 victory over Wellington to top off what has been a successful week thus far. North Harbour’s experienced number two, Ela Grimwood is excited about the weekend ahead. “It feels pretty good and after last year it gives us another chance to go one better. I think we have a solid team this year so we just have to believe we can do it and go from there,” said Grimwood, who is personally five from five as well. North Harbour manager Helen Chegwin has been here many times before and puts the early success down to team depth. “We had a lot of depth in the team and it meant we were able to just pick and choose as far as who went first, second or third, it just didn’t matter. They are all very equal which made it easy.” Canterbury had the biggest challenge of all yesterday, coming up against competition heavyweights in Waikato and Auckland. They stood up to the challenge defeating Waikato 3½ to 1½ in the morning and rode the momentum to scrape past Auckland in a one point victory. Canterbury beat the best yesterday, earning every right to make the final four. Bay of Plenty also secured a semi-final position after four victories and one halve. Bay of Plenty number one Alanna Campbell has had a successful 2015 and a victory at the Toro Interprovincials would top it all off. “I don’t think it has sunk in yet because it’s so hot out there,” said Campbell. “Yeah, it will be a good challenge tomorrow and looking forward to playing Little Twelvie (Vyan Park) so that’ll be good. I have had an
Members of the Canterbury team, including former Ashburton golfer Catherine Bell, celebrate their win over Waikato yesterday morning. PHOTO TETSURO MOTOMO 101215-TM-030 enjoyable year so far and here’s hoping this week can add to it.” Today every eye on course will be on defending champions Auckland as they take on Waikato to fight out what is effectively a quarter-final that promises to be a mouth-watering fixture. Division two was regarded as the pool of death and it is living up to it as sadly one of these two great teams will miss out. With just the half day today, the three teams that have made the final four can mentally relax and look to come out firing tomorrow. Results -
Round five AORANGI 4 1/2 TASMAN 1/2 Catherine Knight df Eve Clarke 3/2 Ginny Bolderston df Emily Stenhouse 1up Sharon Bradford halved with Tracy Bary Jenny
Kellahan df Sue Murray 1up Jessica Shearer df Michele Reardon 2/1. NORTH HARBOUR 5 MAN/WANG 0 Vyan Park df Maraea Durie 7/6 Ela Grimwood df Leanne Brown 4/3 Krystal Hu df Tara Raj 4/3 Shani White df Katherine Paskins 6/5 Vaha Fapiano df Tania Hook 5/3. AUCKLAND 5 SOUTHLAND 0 Munchin Keh df Robyn Pullar 3/2 Rose Zheng df Angela Gerken 3/2 Brittney Dryland df Olivia Frost 2/1 Siyi Keh df Helen Baird 6/4 Shantael Ligaliga df Anne Osment 7/5. TARANAKI 31/2 OTAGO 2 1/2 Holly Winter df Jo Hicks-Beach 5/3 Tyla Winter df Abigael Crawford 4/2 Rochelle Keegan lost to Tracey Storer 1up Melanie Wilson halved with Annabel Evans Joanne McDonald def Susan Greig 1up. BAY OF PLENTY 3 WELLINGTON 2 Alanna Campbell lost to Te Rongopai Clay 4/3 Emmalee Morrell Amy Austin 5/3 Rotana Howard df Sam-Maree Brown
4/2 Jodae Ngaheu df Emma Hayward NORTH HARBOUR 5 WELLINGTON 0 2/1 Heather Keefe lost to Chelsea Sharp Vyan Park def Te Rongopai Clay 3/2, Ela 2/1. Grimwood def Amy Austin 4/3, Krystal CANTERBURY 3 ½ WAIKATO 1 ½ Hu def Sam-Maree Brown 7/5, Shani Momoka Kobori lost to Chantelle Cas- White def Emma Hayward 2/1, Vaha Fasidy 7/6 Amelia Garvey halved with piano def Chelsea Sharp 3/1. Brooke Hamilton Catherine Bell def Fai WAIKATO 4 SOUTHLAND 1 Chantelle Tongdethsri 6/5 Juliana Hung df HanaCassidy def Robyn Pullar 5/4, Brooke Rae Seifert 3/2 Hillary O’Connor df Kelly Hamilton lost to Angela Gerken 5/4, Fai Nicholas 2/1. Tongdethsri def Olivia Frost 4/2, HanaRound six Rae Seifert def Helen Baird 7/6, Kelly AORANGI 3 1/2 HAWKES BAY POVNicholas def Anne Osment 6/4. ERTY BAY 1 ½ Catherine Knight def BAY OF PLENTY 4 MAN/WANG 1 Alanna Kate Chadwick 4/3, Ginny Bolderston Campbell def Maraea Durie 2/1, Emdef Janie Field 2up, Sharon Bradford malee Morrell def Leanne Brown 4/2, def Jaimie McIvor 1up, Jenny Kellahan Rotana Howard halved with Tara Raj, Jolost Sara Deam 1up, Jessica Shearer dae Ngaheu def Katherine Paskins 3/2, halved with Tessa McDonald. Heather Keefe halved with Tania Hook. NORTHLAND 5 OTAGO 0 Brooke Kin- CANTERBURY 3 AUCKLAND 2 Momoka gi def Jo Hicks-Beach 3/2, Alayna Cox Kobori halved with Munchin Keh, Amelia def Abigael Crawford 3/1, Soktaera Sean Garvey lost to Rose Zheng 1up, Cathdef Tracey Storer 5/3, Kylie Jacoby def erine Bell def Brittney Dryland 2/1, JuAnnabel Evans 5/3, Sam Dangen def Suliana Hung halved with Siyi Keh, Hillary san Greig 3/2. O’Connor def Shantael Ligaliga 3/2.
■ CRICKET
Fleming out of a job after Super Kings banned By Andrew Alderson Stephen Fleming accepts he could soon be out of a job at the Chennai Super Kings. The Twenty20 cricket franchise, along with their Rajasthan Royals counterparts, were banned from the Indian Premier League for two years in July by a Supreme Court-appointed panel. In 2013, police launched legal proceedings against several officials from the teams and three Rajasthan players for illegal betting and spot-fixing. In Chennai’s case, owner Gurunath Meiyappan was found guilty of betting on IPL games. The decision to ban the franchises came
as a general shock. Heavy fines had been expected. Bids from the cities of Pune and Rajkot won the auction to replace them, ensuring an eight-team competition remains. However, the Super Kings launched a final appeal, known in India as a PIL – public interest litigation – via local politician Subramanian Swamy. Swamy wanted the Madras High Court to hear the appeal earlier this month but it is fixed, so to speak, for December 14 and 15. Torrential rain and flooding means Chennai has ground to a halt in the interim. The PIL petition is expected to raise concerns over the legitimacy of the process in
previous courts which delivered the suspension. “It’s pretty unsettling at the moment,” Fleming said of the franchise he has taken to two IPL and two Champions League titles. “We’re waiting on the result of the High Court appeal, and that will determine the immediate future of the coaching staff. “However, the players can be re-bought and, if the appeal is not successful, we will have the ability to get them back in a couple of years and start again.” Fleming is currently coaching the Melbourne Stars in Australia’s Big Bash which starts next week. He has not ruled out staying with the
franchise. In the meantime, if the ban is upheld, he will become a free IPL agent, as will his Australian assistants Andy Bichel and Steve Rixon. The New Zealand players involved – Brendon McCullum and Matt Henry (Super Kings), Tim Southee (Royals) – could be selected among the 10 players (five per team) to be picked by the new franchises in a special December 15 auction. Otherwise they will go into the annual auction set down for February 6. McCullum told the Herald one of his test players had made him aware of the news, but he had no idea how the scenario would unfold. - NZME