Mairehau proves superior

Press, 14 May 1979, Page 19

Mairehau proves superior

Mairehau A and United put the on'.v life into this week-end's women's firs! division basketbail competition that continued at < owles Stadium on Saturday. Mairehau had too much genriri. ability and defeated Christchurch United by 56 points to 38. The other two matches were dour and uninspiring affairs with a . four sides guilty of rough play. The competition leader..; Checkers, had the bye. Points after the week-end's! games are: Checkers 10, Mai-1 rehau A 8. Mairehau High} Schoo . University 6. Christ-! church United 4, Rebels 2, Conti-t rental Caterers 0. MAIREHAU A 56, CHRIST CHURCH UNITED 38 Mairehau A will need as many j games as possible if it is to fare I well in the women's club cham-l pionships next month It made a| good effort to control play con-; structively and worked up many fine moves. Andrea Taylor and Jackie Cook; worked hard to set up play and! good team work between Colleen] McFarlin and Mary Fastier. who I •cored many good baskets,} allowed Mairehau to dominate? most of the game. Mairehau led 10-4 after six minutes. 25-12 after 13 minute! and was comfortably in control at half-time by 35 points to 22. United, tried hard to hold back] Mairehau's lead and strove to breakthrough Mairehau's strong; rone defence. Sisters Barbara; Carr and Heather Steele were

?/forced to shoot over this defen--5 sivc zone and only managed tol 1 score nine and eight points re- ! apectively. The tall Chris Heremia worked - hard under both backboards and - the captain Carol Jones worked tirelessly in a courageous at3 tempt to control Mairehau's fast--1 breaking forwards. 1 Mairehau began thie second .! half a little slower and allowed ■ United to close the margin to M nine points after five minutes. -;but Patsy Barry found the ring ii with several good shots and lay•jups. enabling Mairehau to find • it's rythm again. Both teams deserved praise for J a game played in fine spirit and ’ sportsmanship. UNIVERSITY 63, CONTINENTAL CATERERS 45 ii In a long drawn-out game University remained in third equal placing with an uninspiring vic-i lory over bottom-placed Conti-j .; nental by 63 points to 45. I’ The first half display by both u sides was poor, and bad fouls es- > pecially in trying to stop the .; shooter, caused 15 sets of free■|throw attempts in the first half. Andri anna Beukenholdt w r as ;• University's best weapon. Conti--1 nental was unable to stop her strong drives to the basket and .she was well rewarded in scoring J 20 points. Denise Mac Kay and >i Jocelyn Douglas covered much of ;;the court for University and Ann Brokenshire worked tirelessly. ■ University lead of 13-7 after

seven minutes was increased to 127-8 after a graet scoring spree by Beukenholdt four minutes I later. The rest of the half was even with University leading 4226 at the break. Kaien Atchison, working hard as always on defence, started the second half by scoring three good baskets for Continental. The second half was even with University scoring only 21 furhter points to Contenintals .19, but the basketball, although cleaner, was unspectacular. With three or four minute remaining Beukenholdt hobbled from the court with a sprained ankle. This was the end of r ne scoring apart from two baskets in the eighteenth minute for Continental. MAIREHAU HIGH SCHOOL 47, REBELS A 39 Rebels matched the young h:ghj I school team for the first five; i minutes, but then Mairehau took control of the game from 9-8 to 27-8 before Rebels could respond again. By half-time the score was 3112. Megan Stokes rolled her ankle early int he game and thus left Rayne Cassidy and Debbie Goodland to lead the scoring for Mairehau. Donna Broughton controlled much ball for Mairehau and set up her young team-mates repeatedly.

Mairehau controlled the early part of the second half, extending its lead to 45-24 after 12 min-

uies. During this period play deteriorated badly with both sides gulty of some bad fouls. At one stage the Mairehau coach. Kerry Williams, called ai time out and sat his girls down on the court while he remonstrated with the referees. During the final quarter Mairehau lacked any enthusiasm to score, only managing one basket while Rebels with Averil Robinson , in good form, scored 15 points to close the gap to eight points. Full results and individual scoring details. — Mairehau A 56, (M. Fastier 14 J. Cook 11, C. McFarlin 10, p’ Barry 8, A. Taylor 6, J. Armstrong 5, V. Howard 2), Christchurch United 38, fB. Carr 9. 11. Steele 8, C. Heremia 8. C. Jones io, K. Waitoa 4, D. "Wilson 2, V •Cunningham 2). Varsity A 63 (A. Beukenholdt 2°’ P- Mac Kay 12. J. Douglas 12. A. Brokenshire 10, M. Allen 3, J Johnson 2, T. Beukenholdt 2, T.‘ Beattie 2) Continental Caterers <K : Atclison 11, B. Fortune 10, R King 8. F. Van Zanten 8, C. Winter 4, J. McKay 4). Mairehau High School 47 (Rayne Cassidy 12, Debbie Goodland 9, A. Bermingham 6, I. I ee 4, D Broughton. 4, K. Richardson 4, V. Cassidy 3, B. Palmer 3, M. Sokes 2). Rebels 39 (S. Le W'arne W, C. Chaplin 9. A. Robinson 8, M. Williams 8, D. Shanks 2, E. Young 2).