Win, loss to Papanui

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 24

Win, loss to Papanui

(NZ. Press Association) HAMILTON. Papanui (Christchurch) had a win and a loss in the national club softball championships in Hamilton yesterday. The team comfortably beat the Wanganui side Braves 18-4, in the afternoon match. However, in the early match Island Bay (Wellington) beat Papanui 3-1 after the latter had brought its : very first batter home. Although scoring three hits to two, Papanui’s errors cost it the game. Papanui has a record of two wins and two losses for I the tournament so far. An action-packed day at the championships yesterday set the scene for breathtaking final games on Saturday. Hutt Valley Cardinals’ victory over Marist (Hawke’s Bay) and Cambridge’s subsequent win over the Hutt Valley combination has left the competition wide open, with these three teams and Wellington’s Island Bay all with three wins and a loss after two days of play. And all appear capable of taking home the new Stars Travel Trophy, which has replaced the 35-year-old John Lennon Trophy.

Marist, Wednesday’s outstanding combination, was the team to beat yesterday. That was exactly what hapened. but it took a tremen-

dous effort by Cardinals to do it. Cardinals won 2-1 in 10 innings after scoring six safe hits to Marist’s four. The New Zealand representative Terry Bell featured in the winning run. He came home on a passed ball to halt the Hawke’s Bay side’s run of success. But one of the best games was yet to come. Late in the afternoon Cambridge clashed with Cardinals and desperately required victory to even the win-loss ratio amongst the top quartet. In an extremely tight game, Cambridge emerged a 1-0 winner, scoring five safe hits to the opposition's two. The home team scored its run in the first innings and. I with the national pitcher Kevin Herlihy in outstanding (form, it was obvious Caridinals had an uphill struggle ahead. Results were.— STARS TRAVEL TROPHY United 8, Panthers 2; Cardinals 2. Marist 1; Island Bay 3, Papanut 1; Cambridge 3. Braves 0; Marist 7, Panthers 3; Island Bay 2, United 1; Cambridge J. Cardinals 0; Papanui 8. Braves 4. TOM VOYLE CUP A division.—Douglas Villa 5, Army 4; Roslyn Wakari 8, Buzzards 0: Police 12, Pukekohe 4; Army 8, East Coast Bays 0; Roslyn Wakari 6. Police 1; Puke-' kohe 11, Buzzards 1; Douglas Villa 2, East Coast Bays I. B division.—Timberiands 9. Waipapa 4; Huia Chiefs 4, Greerton 2: R.N.Z.A.F. 7, Pioneers 3; Greertou 14. Waipapa 7; Saints 11, Timberiands 1; lluia Chiefs 3. Pioneers (I; Saints 1. R.N.Z.A.F 0.