Monowai And Kaiapoi Win Narrowly

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 24

Monowai And Kaiapoi Win Narrowly

Kalapot had to withstand a atrong last innings challenge from Spreydon and won narrowly in the senior women’s softball competition. Monowai was in a similar position in its game with West Old Girls. Avon had little difficulty in beating Western Suburbs decisively.

Results; Kaiapoi 10. Spreydon 8: Monowai 9, West Old Girls 7: Avon 18, Western Suburbs 0. Kaiapoi v. Spreydon Kaiapoi produced some of Its best fielding this season to keep Spreydon scoreless in its first five innings But then Kaiapoi's fielding slipped and Spreydon gathered eight runs to approach the 10 runs scored by Kaiapoi In its first six innings.

The crucial innings for Kaiapoi was the fifth when fierce nlttlng put pressure on the Spreydon fielders and seven runs were scored. F. Thompson batted well, scoring a good home run, and M Reddy and N. Johnson gave her good support. P Hall hit a home run for Spreydon and H. Diggs, M. Draper, and W. Kane also batted well. Monowai v. West Old Girls Good batting by N. Beale, A. Milligan. B Turbott, L. Leask and C. Brown brought Monowai five runs in its first two innings and gave it an edge on Old G<rls which it held throughout the match.

Old Girls began well when 3. Hawker hit a home run in the first innings and solid batting in the third Innings brought another three runs. However, good fielding kept Old Girls from scoring again until the last innings, when, trailing by five runs, the team tried hard to overcome the deficit, but could only score three runs, M. Easton, a junior player, pitched well for Monowai, and C. Tenent, L. Milligan and B. Turbott fielded well. Avon v. Suburbs Avon proved too strong In all departments for Western Suburbs. Avon had a field day with the bat, H. Johnson taking top honours with five hits from six times at bat, while for Western Suburbs the only batters to hit safely were C. Chaplin and S. Dalkie.

J Hudson pitched well for Avon and always had the Western Suburbs batters in trouble. She was backed up by a good fielding team. Two players to stand out for Western Suburbs were Daikie and B. Tait and they never gave up throughout the game. Other results:—

Second Grade. —Avon 6, Monowai 5; West Old Girls 24. Kaiapoi 2; Teachers’ College 20, Spreydon 2. Third Grade—Vanguard 17, Western Suburbs 7; Monowai 11, United 2; Avon 25, Templeton 13.