Christchurch clubs eye medals

Press, 4 March 1988, Page 34

Christchurch clubs eye medals

Christchurch clubs can expect! a reasonable medal {take when the New Zealand I rowing: championship finals are held ■ on Lake Karapiro today and tomorrow. j In perfect weather and water I conditions yesterday the Avon club qualified in the men’s senior

coxed four, the intermediate eight and lightweight coxed four, and the single sculler, John Cook, in the championship event. A surprise non-qualifier for the single sculls; was Dale Maher, of the Union club, although it i was noticeable that he greatly reduced his efforts in the

latter stages of his semifinal, no doubt saving himself for his specialist lightweight event. Union’s other qualifiers from the semi-finals yesterday were the women’s senior eight and intermediate ; coxed four, the men’s coxless pair (G. Perry, K. Calvert), and

the coxed four, in which the pair combines with the Murfin twins and the cox, Carl Sheehan. Virginia le Bas (Canterbury) qualified for the final of the women’s intermediate singles, and the club’s No. 2 intermediate coxed four also advanced.