SIDELINES

Press, 25 March 1987, Page 52

SIDELINES

HUGH McGAHAN, the New Zealand and Eastern Suburbs captain, is obviously a marked man' 1ri f the Sydney rugby league premiership. Last Friday night the former Australian prop, Craig Young, was sent from the field by a fellow policeman (and match referee), Kevin Roberts, for a' high, tackleon McGahan after only 58 seconds. Two weeks earlier an Illawarra player had been dismissed for a similar offence in thesecohd minute. McGahan recovered last Friday to score one try and set up several others as Easts thrashed Young’s St George side, 44-2. Another New Zealander, Gary Prohm, was also a tryscorer. _ ; ~,.7' '■ ,■

TWO CRICKETERS shared the distinction©! being the king hitters, in Canterbury first grade inter-club ; cricket for 1986-87. Both Chris Flanagan r (High School Old Boys) and Geoff Smith (St Albans)cleared the boundaries once in the final round of the Trust Bank Cup one-day competition to nudge their summer’s totals of sixes up to 15. Craig Thiele, of Lancaster Park, was next with 11. ' / . '

NEW CLUBROOMS for the Banks Peninsula Rugby Club will be opened, probably by the president of the C.R.F.U., Les Russell, at Little River this Sunday. With much voluntary labour, the cost of the building, which has bar-lounge-kitchen facilities, has been kept at below $BO,OOO. The rooms will be shared 1 with the Little River cricket, netball and tennis clubs, and at some future date new changing rooms will be added. To mark the occasion on Sunday a rugby match will be played between the High School. Old Boys seniors and a Peninsula Invitation XV, which will include one or two Canterbury players. , 1

LAKE RUATANIWHA'S international standard rowing course will be a focal point of thejnaugural Twizel triathlon this Saturday. All sections 'in the event will start and finish from the same point beside the hydro lake which should appeal to spectators. Competitors will have to do 45kni of canoeing, 32km of cycling and run 9km. Among the competitors will be the former Christchurch formula one motor-cycle racer, Paul McLachlan, who now runs an accommodation centre in Twizel. .