Schoolboy softball

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 14

Schoolboy softball

GV.Z. Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH. Hawke’s Bay is tile only un- • beaten team in the A section of the national schoolboys’ softball tournament at Palmerston North after two days of play. Results ■of yesterday’s games: A section. Bay of Plenty 11. • Wellington 8; Hawke’s Bay 11, : Midlands 2; Nelson 12. Canter•bury 1; Wellington 3, Manawatu •2; Bay of Plenty 14. Midlands 3; Hawke’s Bay 11. Nelson 2; Can- • terbury 7. Manawatu 5. B section.—Waikato 6, East Coast 2: Hutt Valley 11. Counties 0: Auckland 15, Wairarapa 0: Hutt Valley 11, Waikato 1; Counties 7. Wairarapa 1; Auckland 10. East Coast 5. GIRLS’ TOURNAMENT Canterbury is one of four unbeaten teams in the national • school girls’ softball tournament at Wanganui. The others are Auckland, Wellington and Horewhenua. Results of yesterday's games:

Section A.—Auckland 40. Taranaki 0; Waikato 14, East Coast 4; • Wellington 16. Midlands 3: .Hawke’s Bay 10, Manawatu 7; Waikato 40. Taranaki 10; Auckland 27. East Coast 2; Manawatu 25. Midlands 13; Wellington 17. Hawke’s Bay 6.

Section B—Canterbury 31. jMarlborough 2: Horowhenua 22. iWanganui 7; Nelson 13, Canter!bury 12; Bav of Plenty 16, Marlborough 6: Counties 20, Wanganui (5: Nelson 14, Marlborough 1: 1 Canterbury 16. Bay of Plenty 10; Horowhenua 9, Counties 6.