Suburbs Beat Lincoln College In Rugby Competition

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 20

Suburbs Beat Lincoln College In Rugby Competition

Suburbs established itself as a team of considerable consequences when on Saturday it ended Lincoln College’s unbeaten run in the Christchurch senior Rugby competition. After five rounds in the D.C.L. Shield contest, Suburbs and New Brighton are locked in the lead , with five wins each. Lincoln College and Linwood share third place.

For the first time this season, Lincoln College failed to score a try; the Suburbs line has been crossed only four times this year. The College XV led. 9-3, with 20' minutes play left, but in the last quarter it lost the lead to its determined opponent.

half-time. New Brighton’s forward power paved the way to victory, but its back play fell away badly after encouraging efforts in the earlier rounds.

match with Sydenham, and although his efforts at resuscitawhen they passed rhe halfcentury mark. C. Henderson (New Brighton) now has 55 points, S. M. C. Murray (Lincoln College) 51, and W. F. McCormick (Linwood) 50. Results were:—

tion met with limited success he scored 11 points—including two tries.

seventh place in the competition. Points are:—

Christchurch scored only one try to University B’s two but gained its third successive win to retain a place in the top six. The Shirley coach (Mr D. Young) paced up and down in consternation after his team’s first-half display against Meri-vale-Papanui but, judging by the final score, his words at half-time had some effect.

After the free scoring in the first four rounds, Saturday’s matches were notable for much tighter defensive patterns and more errors being made under pressure. As a result, the try-scoring rate fell away markedly, and no team scored more than 19 points. Three full-backs, however, achieved scoring milestones McCormick did his best to breathe life into his team's

Suburbs 11, Lincoln College 9.

New Brighton 14, Unlvor* sity A 5. Christchurch 15, University B 8. Linwood 17, Sydenham 0. Shirley 19, Merivale-Papanui 9.

Marist had its second win. but found Belfast a lively opponent while Old Boys again succumbed in the second half, this time to Albion, which advanced to

New Brighton did not have an easy passage through the fifth round. It won, 14-5, after trailing University A at

Albion 14. Old Boys 6. Marist 14, Belfast 6.

W. L. D. F. Pts New Bri. 5 - - 124 44 5 Subs. 5 - - 67 31 5 Line. Coll. 4 1 - 123 25 4 Linwood 4 1 - 113 38 4 Shir. 3 2-94 57 3 Chch. 3 2-54 57 3 Albion 9 2 1 46 77 24 Univ. A 2 3 - 57 61 2 Marist 2 3 - 61 64 2 Mer. Pap. 1 3 1 27 67 14 Svdenham 1 3 1 36 68 14 Univ. B 1 4-38 91 1 Belfast — 4 1 46 149 4 H.S.O.B. — 5-47 104