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Tuesday July 12 2016
SOUTHERN VIEW
Moascar Cup not St Thomas’ ST THOMAS’ of Canterbury College came agonisingly close to capturing one of New Zealand rugby’s most prestigious trophy’s – the Moascar Cup – on Saturday. The cup is school boy rugby’s equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield. St Thomas’ led cup holders Nelson College by one point going into the final moments of Saturday’s UC Championship match in Nelson. First-five Patrick Elia kicked what looked like the winning penalty for St Thomas with three minutes remaining. The team were seconds away from creating history before a penalty allowed the home side to retain the cup with a success penalty kick. “It would have been pretty massive for our school. To come up short like that was a pretty tough pill to swallow,” said St Thomas’ teacher and former rugby coach Steve Hart. Kicking was the difference. Nelson kicked five penalties while St Thomas could only covert one of their four tries. It was the forwards doing the job for St Thomas. No 8 Anetelea Vaifale, prop Jakob Mangels, lock Richmond Patea all crossed
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RUN OF FORM: St Thomas narrowly missed out on claiming the Moascar Cup on Saturday. Here they are during their 32-17 win over Shirley Boys’ High School on July 2.
the line, along with half-back Tapu Uliano. When Nelson claimed the Moascar Cup from Timaru Boys’ High School few would have highlighted the defence against St Thomas as their toughest. Previous Moascar Cup defences against more fancied opposition, including St Andrew’s College and Shirley Boys’ High School, were seen as Nelson’s
biggest threats before the end of the season. Nelson made easy work of them, though, defeating St Thomas 25-14 and Shirley BHS 35-15. St Thomas had a slow start to this year’s UC Championship. However, they were confident going up to Nelson following a 31-17 win over third place Shirley BHS the previous week. The top four may be out of the
picture for the team, but they will hope to push their case for the plate competition. The UC Championship plate is contested between teams that finish from fifth through to eighth following the roundrobin. The team’s next game will be the most anticipated of the year, when they host bitter rivals St Bede’s College.
“Its been a long time since we had success against St Bede’s. 2007 was the last time we gave them a good run. I remember that game vividly, Elliot Dixon went off injured for them early and we had now All Blacks’ sevens player Sam Dickson playing for us,” said Mr Hart. The side have a bye this weekend thanks to the school holidays. The next round of competition is on July 23. Saturday’s UC Championship results Shirley BHS 24-15 St Bede’s; St Andrew’s 23-12 Burnside HS; Nelson College 27-25 St Thomas; Timaru BHS 18-7 Rangiora HS; Marlborough BC 48-20 Ashburton College; Lincoln HS 12-19 Waimea College; Roncalli 0-73 Christchurch BHS Standings Top 12: Christ’s College 49pts, Christchurch BHS 47pts, Shirley BHS 38pts, Nelson College 36pts, Waimea Combined 33pts, Burnside HS 32pts, St Andrew’s 31pts, Marlborough BC 31pts, St Bede’s 29pts, Timaru BHS 29pts, St Thomas 22pts, Rangiora HS 16pts, Ashburton College 7pts, Lincoln HS 3pts, Roncalli College 2pts.
Pupils teach Te Reo in supermarkets TWO PUPILS – one from Shirley Intermediate and the other from St Albans School – were the voices behind a supermarket initiative to celebrate Maori Language Week. Amiria Tikao, 12, and her younger sister Matakaea, 9, had their voices professionally recorded in a sound studio to help SuperValue and FreshChoice customers better understand the Maori language. The sisters were recorded pronouncing items such as apples, mushrooms, fish, milk, meat, kiwifruit and cheese, along with many others. Amiria said it was a fun project to be involved with. “It was really cool. It took about
45mins, so not very long . . . we got most of the words first time, which was good,” she said. Local SuperValue and FreshChoice supermarkets then put posters up around their stores, with a QR code that customers could scan with their cell phone. The code led to a website where they could hear the two pupils correctly pronounce the word. Amiria said she had not yet tested out the posters, but she would think about going in later. SuperValue and FreshChoice brands manager Liz de Lange said that when the campaign was run last year, the QR codes were used thou- BILINGUAL: Amiria and Matakaea Tikao helped supermarket customers celebrate Maori Language Week by lending their voices to a campaign around correct pronunciation. sands of times.
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