Women’s sides depleted

Press, 2 March 1981, Page 18

Women’s sides depleted

One senior women’s softball game — Suburbs v. United — was cancelled on Saturday when the Canterbury' under-21 team became stranded at Whakatane. Teams in the other two games fielded depleted sides. Robyn Storer produced some of her rare softball magic to score all three runs for Burnside, against Monowai, which ran the second-placed Burnside to the brink of defeat. Results were:— Burnside 3, Monowai 2. Albion 15, Red Sox 4. Burnside v. Monowai An impressive performance from Mrs Storer turned the

game Into virtually * solo performance. She struck out six Monowai batters and scored all the Burnside runs, one a mighty third-in-nings home run to cap a superb day. Monowai seemed perplexed by a call-up to first base as it pressed Burnside with fourth-in-nings runs from Popata and Martin, but Markinson lost the call by stopping to avoid a tag play and was out. Albion v. Red Sox Both teams were four frontline players short, but Albion, with its senior representatives absent, seemed to be risking

fate. Sharon Constable scored a lone run in the first inning. The second Inning was a great batting display by the “Black Machine.” Albion- scored a staggering 11 runs with some determined hitting. Phillipa Wyatt hit a clean shot through left-centre field for a home ran. AU the Albion batters chimed in. Mihi Dewes <2), Vernal (2), Dunn (2), Thompson, Constable, Glendinning, McGill, and Wyatt all scored. Albion continued to score inthe fourth innings. Wyatt. Dunn, and Thompson all scored on a great hit by Dewes.

. Red Sox tried, plucklly, to stem the scoring.' It retaliated with rims by Robinson and Cate on a Dreaver hit, In the third innings. Chalmers shot' hcxe in the fourth, and in a grandstand finish Kim Jolly drove a huge home run over left-field. Apprehension that the loss of Kemp, Salton, Hazelwood, and Goosman would curb the Albion side were swept away on a flood tide of hits. Gavin Britt, the Red Sox coach, dug Into the inexhaustible list of talented Burnside youngsters to produce a lively side that shook off the nightmare second innings to finish the game strongly.