Women’s Hockey Poor Games In Final Senior Round

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30213, 19 August 1963, Page 7

Women’s Hockey Poor Games In Final Senior Round

A rather uninspiring senior "Tflien's hockey seasjn ended on Saturday. The most interesting match was that between Carlton and Aranui, in which Carlton reversed tiie earlier decision with a narrow but justified win. Rawhiti, already the wanner of the competition, met s xne tough opposition from Digbys and found penetration of that team's stem defence too difficult; Digbys had the same trouble and the result was a scoreless draw. University had a far greater superiority over West Old Girls than the score would indicate. Harewood moved steadily to a comfortable and convincing win over the Huiemoa. Results were:— Digbys 0. Rawhiti 0. Carlton 1. Aranui 0. University 2, West Old Girls 9.

Carlton gave an improved performance in gaining a narrow out well-deserved win in a game with a remarkable lot of fluctuating play. There was not a great deal between the two teams. Carlton owed a tot to its defence. which came through a lot of hard work with some credit and to the centre-half. J.

Rogers. She gave an immensely improved periormauce on some of her recent games—her trapping was much better—and sue was instrumental in exeicising some control over the dangerous ATanui centre-forward. S. Cowles. C. Stevenson (rightback) gave a good pertormance and finished well a season in which sne has shown a lot 01 improvement. The goalie. J Wirson, give another very fine pertormance and was a vital ractor in Carlton’g win. Of the forwards J. S.iand (inslde-ieft) hunted diligently and well—he: goal was a just reward—but too many scoring opportunities were thrown away by noth sets of forwards. Although it went close to sharing a draw. Aranui did not impress as much as it -as on other occasions. There was not the same thought or care put into passing or enough concentration devoted to the attack. Cowles played her usual tusj game but her shooting was not jo accurate B Strong was again a stalwart in goal, and it came as something oi a surprise when site was beaten. Probably the most impressive o: Lie a.tackers tor Aranui was t’le nghthalf and captain. A. Ruston. Digbys v. Rawhiti Only a disallowed goal when the ball rose no more tian aoout wa.st-high prevented Digoys fiom being poss.bly Lie first team to inflict a defeat on the competition winners. It came aoout very early in the game when the hard-working inside-right. N. Stupples put the ball into the net but very rarely after Lian did Digbys look dangerous on attack.

The game proceeded largely in fits and starts and there did not appear to be any flowing pattern or continuity to it. In the struggle tor a deciding goal most of the attacking was done by Rawhiti. The defence of Digbys qualifies for a lot of praise B Makinson (goalie) demonstrated how much her team owes to her. while S Riches (centre-half) coolly dictated the game to the Rawhiti mside-forwards. P. Flewellyn i right-back) gave a very purposeful display while S. Wood did a creditable job on the right wing.

Rawhiti forwards, although they were on attack for a good spell of the game, did not move with a great deal of combination or understanding but easily the most impressive was the right-wing. J Hayes. It is her misfortune to be in a team that does not understand her ability and exploit it to the full. A Rouse (left-half) was the best of the halves and the defenders, and she was one of the most effective attackers as well. Harewood v. Hinemoa

Although it started quite well and never gave up trying. Hinemoa was never really a match for the more skilful and more experienced Harewood team The girls from Kaiapoi scored the first goal—with a forward short—but from there Harewood moved systematically into the job of winning the match and did it most efficiently. Y. Turner (left-back) had a few keen tussles with Hinemoa's right-wing. E. Melrose, but apart from that. Harewood's backs and goalie did not have a great deal to do: the halves, in reasonably good form, saw to that What really took the eye in Harewood's win was the use made of the right-wing attack. D Eddy was in her usual excellent form and because she had in J. Murray, a player who understood how to feed her wing, she received far more opportunities—and thrived on them. The Hinemoa left-back, J. Oram, had a very arduous task but it is to her credit that she stuck to it. On a few occasions she robbed Eddy of the ball or did not give her as easy a passage as she might have wished. J. Capstick (centre-half), w’orked hard and covered diligently while R. Black (captain and goalie), was the bulwark of her team's defence. Harewood's goals were scored by Murray (2). S. Rich, N. Wall and G. Muirson, while Hinemoa's was by A. Beattie. University v. West Old Girls When last these two teams net. University's margin was six goals and the team was again superior on Saturday. But, in the second half in particular. West packed Its circle desperately and tills, coupled with some rather poor shooting by University, made the scoring of goals difficult. Perhaps the best illustration of University's dominance lies in the tact 'that not once was Its circle breached and almost never its 25 yard line. West was composed of a team of individuals and the only one that left any impression—as an individual —was the centre-half, B Thomas who tried hard to little avail. F Whitehead and T. Minehan scored University's goals.

Harewood 5 Hinemoa 1. Final coni petit: or. point® are: w. D !«. F. Ch. Rauh. 10 0 4 36 6 12 Univ. . . 8 2 4 42 10 10 Hare. . . 9 4 1 27 26 Si Ara . 5 4 5 26 19 71 Cam. . 6 6 2 25 23 Digbys 4 5 3 18 16 is Hine. . 1 11 2 9 51 2 West . 1 12 1 9 41 U Carlton ▼. Aranul