Results

Press, 29 July 1987, Page 37

Results

SOCCER The final round of the Canterbury women’s soccer league competition was completed on Sunday. A knock-out competition for all divisions will start this Sunday. In the fourth division Riccarton beat Avonhead, 9-2, with Janet Dixon netting a hat-trick, while in the fifth division Riccarton beat Shamrock, 4-0, Morag Jones scoring all the goals. Results were: Division two: Rangers 1, Hornby 1; Imperial 1, University 0; Shamrock 3, Rangiora 0; North Beach-Parklands 4, Burwood 1.

Division three: St AlbansShirley 1, Technical 1; Lyttelton 5, Western 1; Woolston 2, Dux de Lux 1; Nomads 1, Cashmere 0. Division four: Bumdale 1, Prince of Wales 1; Halswell 4, Western 0; Riccarton 9, Avonhead 2; New Brighton 9, Rangers 0. Division five: Burndale 5, Burwood 0; New Brighton 3; Technical 2; Riccarton 4, Shamrock 1. Canterbury advanced to the semi-finals of the national under-17 premier boys competition when it beat Otago, 42, in Dunedin on Sunday. Its goal-scorers were John Campbell (2), lan Lachie and

Brent Patrick. Canterbury, which is the defending champion, will meet the winner of the match between Hutt Valley and Nelson in the next round. The final of the Sunday Soccer League’s Bolam Cup knock-out tournament will be contested by Dux De Lux A and Avonhead A. In the semi-finals played last week-end Dux De Lux beat MacKenzie Rovers, 2-0, while Avonhead beat North Beach A, 5-0. The final will be played at English Park on August 30. It will be Avonhead’s fourth successive appearance in the final.

WATER POLO As it expected, the New Zealand women’s water polo team has found the competition tough in the early stages of Its six-week European tour. At the Oslo Cup in Oslo, New Zealand played seven games for six losses and a draw. The draw, 8-8 against Sweden, was a significant result for New Zealand. It was the first time it had had anything other than a loss in a full international. New Zealand’s other results were: v. France, 3-14; v. Belgium, 10-15; v. Canada, 2-20; v. Norway, 6-14; v. U.S.A. B, 4-11; v U.S.A. A, 1-22.

NETBALL Saints kept their unbeaten record intact when they beat Whanau, 49-20, in the men’s Sunday netball league competition at the Hagley courts. Saints and United are the competition leaders. Results; United 38, Cashmere High School 30; Saints 49, Whanau 20; University Blue 33, College Old Boys 14. Points: Saints 30, United 28, University Red 22, Whanau 20, Cashmere High School 20, College Old Boys 17, University Blue 15.