Water polo N.S.W side beaten

Press, 6 April 1981, Page 18

Water polo N.S.W side beaten

A dramatic improvement wai not enough for New South Waled Combined Services to stave *otf defeat yesterday at Queen Elizabeth II Park in the water litjjo series with New Zealand Combined Services. -S/X

Beaten by 14 goals in. the firS.(. match, at Wellington, New South' Wales this time went down byla mere 6-9, and New Zealand^ jwhich included two full interhatfoiw als — could never relax its efforj. ■} The decisive difference between the two teams lay in the hojiie team’s fitness. So often, New South Wales received a change of posse_ssion, but could never successful counter-attack. ‘ ’

In the week-end’s supporting] matches, the two non-service com-j binations had the measure of Nev? Zealand Combined Services and Army respectively. A Canterbury team with only one player, Richafif Tweedie, over the age of 21, beat] Services by 10 goals, though the., latter side played without Pad! Dyson and the regular goalie, Gerald Wilkinson. ■ /

Then, yesterday mornih’g,'] Wharenui beat Army, the latfer! side twice giving goo’d accounts of itself, particularly in its 10-18 loSh to New South Wales. Canterbury beat New Zealand.' Combined Services, 19-9, dtid’ Wharenui beat Army, 14-6. ] £ Results;— ’ .. ; yr

Canterbury 19 (J. N. Koons 4, S. J. Wakefield 4. M. A. Forbes 3, ScA. Ward 3, P. R. Tweedie 2, J.-Al Boyce 2. B. M. Ferigo), N.Z. Coin-’ biried Services 9 (G. W. Campbell 3J R. Bell 2, B. Coulter 2, B. W. Buck/ M. McLean). N.S.W. Combined Services 18 (fjJ Spillstead 6, M. Defina 3, G. Foster,* T. Bates, N. Goltz, all 2; P. Whelani A. Forsvth, P. Haxell), NJZ. Army* 10 Bell ’3, G. Mclsaae 3, G. gate, R. Parkinson, L. Cleave,. McConney). Wharenui 14 (Tweedie, R. A'JClark, Wakefield, all 3; B. Ferigo Koens, D. J. A. Ferigo, Campbell),! N. Army 6 (Cleave 4, Bell, Par/ kinson). , I

N.Z. Combined Services 9 (Camp-|. bell 3, P. W. Dyson, M. Moohan Bell, Coulter 2), N.S.W. Combined/ Services 6 (Defina 4, P. Whelan, O’Hara).