Avon victory

Press, 5 March 1988, Page 88

Avon victory

A superb all-the-way y viclory by Avon in (he \ senior eights highlighted a • I successful day by Christ- II church crews in the ' G.R.E. New Zealand rojw- i ing championships bn | Lake Karapiro yesterday. il Avon harnessed rippling i| power with smooth co-H ordination to surge away in the final from its rivals, 11 none of whom could be J described as sluggish. ii Four members of he winning Avon combination earlier rowed second in the senior coxless event I to a powerful Canterbury crew, winner of the Auck- j land title a week before. I Avon’s other successes; were in the finals of the! intermediate coxed four! by the No. 1 combination,! and in the novice four. . I The South Island en- j trains 1 dominated the in-- j termediate men’s coxed

pairs finalj with North End (Dunedip) winning from a fast-finishing Avon crew of Brent Salomen and Jason j Lppas, with Glen Lopas! as cox, who just pipped Union’s novice combination; of Andrew Taylor and I Jeremy Kennedy, who| has Jason Cowles as cpx.j Union’s third earned it elevation tlo [the senior division after; just four months of rowing. The former Christchurch Commonwealth Games competitor, Phillipa BakerJ now: of Cambridge, retained her title in the women’s lightweight single sculls. There were jseveral delays to the! racing yesterday .because! of weed drifting across; the course. Most of thp fipals will be held on the lake today.