Woolston XI is new suburban leader

Press, 25 February 1986, Page 23

Woolston XI is new suburban leader

Woolston WMC became the new leader in the senior suburban cricket competition after the second-to-last round on Saturday and Sunday.

Woolston defeated Hoon Hay with an outright win, and has a ten-point lead over the second-placed Heathcote. These two teams will meet in the final round, set down for March 8 and 15.

Vistalite Sumner is eight points behind Heathcote, and now out of contention, followed by Upper Riccarton, two points behind.

The other team with an outright victory was Bowleys Hornby, which beat Christchurch WMC at Bradford Park.

Hornby won the toss and got off to a good start, with Andrew Knowles quickly scoring 38 froip six overs. The score then rose briskly to 100 from only 10 overs, then continued through to 217. In reply, Hornby lost an early wicket without scoring, then the other opener, Gary McManus, lost his wicket early at 10. Batting on, using its maximum 55 overs, Hornby struggled to 173 for nine.

Christchurch tumbled in its second innings, adding a further 98 runs, when it had a handy first-innings lead of 44. Needing 143 runs to win, Hornby achieved this with a valuable third wicket partnership of 115 by Trevor Flutey and Ross Morgan. They were both undefeated on 64 and 48 respectively. Flutey had also scored an excellent 61 in his first innings.

Woolston WMC and Hoon Hay both had low-scoring first innings at Garrick Park with Woolston WMC declaring 28 runs behind Hoon Hay’s first innings of 131.

Woolston then needed to score 173 in 80 minutes and 20 overs. It succeeded, with five wickets and seven overs in hand.

For Hoon Hay, Jim Bennie bowled well again, with a total of nine wickets for the match. He took five wickets in the first innings and four wickets in the second.

In the third game between Vistalite Sumner and Heathcote at St Leonard’s Square, Heathcote won the toss and sent the home side into bat Sumner declared in the fiftyfourthover, at 196 for nine, with five batsmen scoring over 20. In Heathcote’s inningsof

198 for eight declared, also in 54 overs, Don Braid (Sumner) added took five wickets.

Sumner began its second innings but at 133 for four, a result being impossible In the time, play was abandoned.

At Beckenham Park in the clash between Southern Districts and Upper Riccarton, Southern Districts struggled in scoring 165 from 52 overs with one of its players retiring hurt Upper Riccarton had passed this figure on the first day and expected to declare overnight Instead it batted the remaining seventeen overs to score a massive 243. Colin Fenwick topscored'on 89 with a hard-hitting performance and was dropped only once.

Southern Districts, with nd alternative, batted out the afternoon, to finish seven down for 171. Roger Queree batted almost the entire innings, eventually being dismissed for 62.

The only century in senior cricket went to Peter Steere of Belfast Senior B, who scored 112.

Competition Points: — Woolston WMC 87; Heathcote 77; Vistalite Sumner 69; Upper Riccarton 67; Hoon Hay 63; Southern Districts 54; Bowleys Hornby 51; Christchurch WMC 14.

D.B. Trophy points: — Woolston WMC (30) 296; Bowleys Hornby (30) 294.5; Southern Districts (30) 294; Upper Riccarton (30) 293; Vistalite Sumner (29) 291; Christchurch WMC (30) 290; Hoon Hay (30) 290; Heathcote (29) 289. Senior A Upper Riccarton 243 (C. Fenwick 89; A Kerr 31; T. Caldwell 29; G Slave 3/71; R. Aldous 3/95; M. White 2/44) drew with Southern Districts 165/9 dec. (A Laurent 40; G. Black 33; W. Moore 20; W. Clark 3/32; A Kerr 2/15) and 171/7 (R. Queree 62; W. Moore 42; D. Kennedy 2/30, Umpires Day 1 V. F. Payne, G. Clark, Day 2 M. G. Tindall, G. Clark.

Woolston WMC 103/9 dec. (G. Baxter 29 n. 0.; J. Bennie 5/20; B. White 2/29) and 173/ 5 (M. Hartland 47; B. Harns 60; S. Payne 23; K. Taylor 25 n. 0.; J. Bennie 4/62) beat Hoon Hay 131/9 dec. (T. Barclay 34; W. Baylis 22; P. Nelson 21; K. Taylor 5/37; S. Payne Sf 22) and 143/7 dec. (Bell 50 n. 0.; Stapleton 25; J. Bennie 21; M. Hartland 3/51:

L. Robson 2/33. Umpires: D. J. Steere.

Heathcote 198/8 dec. (R. Hay 42; S. Collier 40; D. Oetgen 33 n. 0.; W. Cresswell 23; N. Clark 20; D. Braid 5/ 89; D. Boreham 2/66) drew with Vistalite Sumner 196/9 dec. (E. Smalle 34; C. Cross 34; T. McKendy 30; G. Nicol 24; O. Southen 22; K. Chambers 4/49; B. Thompson 2/22) and 133/4 (G. Nicol 55; C. Cross 43; N. Clark 2/14). Umpires: D. S. Gray.

Bowleys Hornby 173/9 (T. Flutey 61; M. Pannell 21; R. Provan 3/60; W. Stapley 4/ 44) and 143/2 (T. Flutey'64 n. 0.; R. Morgan 48 n. 0.) beat Christchurch WMC 217 (A. Knowles 38; W. Tinker 54; R. Smythe 42; A. Smythe 31; B. Adam 3/17; G. Gifford 2/17) and 98/8 dec. (T. Lightfoot 28 n. 0., M. Pannell 2/20; G. Clifford 2/30) outright. Umpires: R. W. Smith. Senior B Belfast 200 (P. Steere 112) and 122/5 dec. drew with Bowleys Hornby 112/7 dec. and 42/2. Southern Districts 208 (C. Flood 50) and 151/8 dec. drew with Vistalite Sumner 160 (J. Barnett 51; C. Flood 6/21) and 93/7. New Brighton 221/8 dec. (B. Maxted 74) drew with Harewood 226 (K. Williams 93; T. Jones 54) and 87/5. Merivale — Papanui 172 (R. Horten 61; and 115/4, R. Horten 51) beat Richmond Working Men Club 203/9 (C Cattermole 58) (83, and T. Greenham 5/44)outright