Senior netball lead unchanged

Press, 12 June 1978, Page 22

Senior netball lead unchanged

St Nicholas and Technical continued to share the lead with good wins over Burnside A and Riccarton respectively in the senior netball competition at Hagley Park on Saturday.

Only two points behind, Sacred Heart B still has a chance to upset the competition. It will play Its critical game against ! Technical next Saturday. Sacred Heart B 43, Cashmere 17. sacred Heart got away to a quick stall, netting five goals before Cashmere could get the ball to its goal circle. Sacred Heart’s moves flowed smoothly, with the forwards, Mary-Ann Kibblewhite, Daphne White, and Gabrielle Martin, bringing the ball with speed to the circle, and allow’ing Penny Berry scoring opportunities.

Cashmere’s centre throw-off was continually broken by the strong defence of Philippa Karetai but Cashmere continued to pass to Sally Marshall Instead of using other players.

Karetai, new to the team after a move from Dunedin, has settled well and is now playing a strongly positional game, complementing the other defences. At half-time the score was 22-6 in favour of Sacred Heart.

Cashmere lifted its plav at the start of the second half and a downturn in Sacred Heart's plav meant, that goals came one fn r O rin Two po n nt’ I

Berry should have made it difficult for her but unobstructed views for White and Kibblewhite allowed for a well directed feed.

Cashmere was forced into extra passes round the circle before it could penetrate the tight Sacred Heart defence. Overheads to Linda Shepherd were a’ joy to Brenda Rowberry’, who Is playing at the same standard as in her representative years. Glen vs Warnes worked hard in goal defence for Cashmere and gave good back-up on the centre pass. But the team had no answer for the three swiff nasses from centre to circle and Sacred Heart finished 25 goals ahead. Technical 45, Riccarton 20. A similar pattern was repeated in the second game of the day, with Technical scoring five quick goals before Riccarton recorded one. The goal attack, Frances Granger. was in good shooting form: it made no difference whether ! she was under the post or shooting from the perimeter. l With unerring accuracy all shots' found the ring. Riccarton, ruffled by the de-: fence of Sue Mnrfon at goal ke«o and Lyn Canghiev at goal defence. massed easv shots at a time when each shot was precious. Although trussing the Zealand ’•* a pre<»’ntafive.

defence. Technical looked as teihal as ever. Riccarton s forwards were forced into careless errors such as stepping and held ball and Technical was ahead. 24-8. at half-time. Riccarton opened strongly in the second half and plaved with more confidence. Quick passes from Karen Ericson and Sarah Fitzgerald gave Bridget Hishop scoring opportunities. However, this was short lived, with Riccarton feeders failing to make use of Hishon’s height advantage. Too many flat nasses were intercepted bv Sue Morion when, with a little more lift, thov would have been Fishon’s. A tiring F’ccarton teem left Technical nlaying an open aerial game to score another big win. ■ Haqley 23, Burnside B 13. Hagley fielded its B team for-: wards for its match against i Burnside and the new combina-i tion of Karen Junes as shooter and Mary Ann Selby as attack took some time <o settle. It tookl Six shots at goal before the open-; in* points '’ere scored. r or the first tiw>e *h* Rirn- : s’de B team oniorod a height advantage in fho <roal circle, pouting on a strong defence and keening *he scoring down. Rorpcide had even- chance to spor*' its KTit C’-'-o Pnmmnns

>: dashed its hopes. The half-time score of 9-6 re- ? fleeted the shooting and the i closeness of the game. 1 The second half saw some t scrappy netball, with both ; teams scrambling for possession. i Burnside resorted to the lob ’ i pass, forgetting the long reach Si of its regular team members, i Janice Henderson. Dianne Petrie, j and the Canterbury captain. I Chris Pietzner. Sacred Heart A 27. ' Teachers' College 125. T College attacked from the out ' ’ set of play and with some good 1 ! driving moves from the centre, •;Lvn Menzies, and the wing, Julie h Muttimer, took the ball to its; . I shooters. Carol Honeybone and ; Sue Hume were in fine form. • i shooting accurately from any i position. At the other end the College tidefences. Sue Reeves and Jane -I Eddington, had Vicki Patterson forced to t’’e perimeter, and V bustled Jo Dillon into shooting ; ton quickly. The centre. Julie Standish • gave the shooters possession but, ■; goa’s were few and far between At half-time College held a four-j lead and locked dnjmmmt.. i |i Th" second half was a disaster ; foj- College. The fomvards ” er" i unable + o smk t'-’e shots a n d ell :, rebmind n"s«°«s : nn wa< ' i'H hv Sally 7 Mppn

- ahead IO f ? V RoXr£ i -jJJTan continually broke ' ; - ■ College throw-off and as •< ’ all attacking moves codap.e... ' Patterson and Dillon goaled accurately. A long Pass t.i.m Rowberi? to Dillon ■ ful time and again. intlnud«t.. g the College defence, who seemed afraid to intercept. St Nicholas 40, Burnsids 50. : St Nicholas again was a we J drilled side. Playing »*th p c eision it soon had last 'cai » competition winner, burnside A. ■ iin all sons of trouble. 1 Tight defence by Ph.llippa ’. Borlase and Barbara Kreft con tained the usually nippy Deidre , Snow. * With good timing, most rei bounds were snapped up bv I Kreft, swinging pla> into the St ' Nicholas court whero Ann David son and Judy Pani showed a good understanding. Their pass ing and shooting was skilful tn I spite of the strength of Burnside’s keeper. Wai Taumaunu i Not usually called for obstmv ■ tion. Taumaunu gaxe awav more possession than she usually does St Nicholas seemed as fit at the end the game as it had nt the beHnn’nff. home on r. qt —n t-t