SPORTS ROUND-UP Top Basketball Sides Emerge

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31462, 31 August 1967, Page 13

SPORTS ROUND-UP Top Basketball Sides Emerge

(N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM. Auckland, Waikato and Tasmania so far are the only unbeaten teams in the national men’s indoor basketball tournament. These three teams will not meet until the postsection play. Yesterday’s results: Wellington 79. Tauranga 71; Canterbury 61, Hutt Valley 39; Waikato 75, Hawke’s Bay 39; Nelson 68, Southland 57;

Auckland 76, Rotorua 44; Hutt Valley 58, Wanganui 53; Waikato 60, Wellington 57: Palmerston North 64, Otago 60; Tasmania 72, Canterbury 50.

Maori Golf

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AUCKLAND.

The Waitomo golfer, T. Ormsby, was in brilliant form as he won his way into the semi-finals of the Aotearoa men’s match-play event at the Maori golf championships at Pukekohe yesterday. Results:

Match Play.—First round: T. Ormsby (Waitomo) beat J. Maniopoto (Te Awamiitu), 7 and 8; J. Pere (Gisborne) beat S. Koupu (Feildlng), 2 and 1; V. Plrihi (Akarana) beat B. Selwyn (Akarana), 1 up; S. Cashell (Talhape) beat L. Thompson (Auckland), 6 and 4; A. Raymond (Tauanga) beat R. Briscoe (Wellington), 2 and 1; C. Phillips (Taumarunui) beat B. King! (Marton), 3 and 1; T. Morrison (Rotorua) beat J. Blake (Auckland), 3 and 2; J. Johnson (Taumarunui) beat G. Patrick (Taumarunui), 3 and 2; Ormsby beat Pere, s and 5; Plrihi beat £“h* u * »n<* 1: Raymond beat Phillips 4 and 3; Johnson beat Morrison, 1 up.