Sport results

Press, 12 April 1989, Page 35

Sport results

VOLLEYBALL The Japan Tobacco men’s team beat the Sparta team of New Zealand, 15-4, 15-2, 15-4 on Monday in the opener of the first Peace Cup tournament for Asian volleyball clubs. Fourteen teams, including six women’s teams, from 14 Asian nations are competing in the seven-day round robin. ORIENTEERING The Peninsula and Plains orienteers are organising the seventh annual Canterbury Mountain marathon for May 7. The event, which has become popular with endurance runners rather than orienteers, is a mixture of crosscountry and marathon and an easily navigated orienteering course. This year’s event will be held in Kaituna Valley. The most difficult course is 26km long and rises 6500 feet. There will be three other courses ranging in length and difficulty from the novice event, which is 7km long and rises 400 m. One hundred and fifty competitors started the same event last year, at Whitecliffs. Similar numbers are expected this year including many Coast to Coast competitors. CHESS NZPA-Reuter Barcelona The world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, postponed his match against Britain’s Jonathan Speelman in the World Chess Cup in Bar-

celona on Monday because he was ill, organisers said. Kasparov, in sixth place in the 17-round competition, hoped to play on Tuesday. His doctors gave no details of the illness.

Meanwhile, the Yugoslav grandmaster, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, maintained his lead in the World Chess Cup yesterday when he drew with black pieces in the tenth round against the Hungarian, Zoltan Ribli, after 35 moves.

Other tenth round results: Boris Spassky (France) drew with Valery Salov (Soviet Union); Miguel Illescas (Spain) drew with Alexander Beliavsky (Soviet Union); Artur Yusupov (Soviet Union), Jost to Nigel Short (Britain); Yasser Seirawan (United States), beat Johan Hjartarson (Iceland); Victor Korchnoi (Switzerland) and Robert Huebner (West Germany), adjourned after 60 moves; Garry Kasparov (Soviet Union) and Jonathan Speelman (Britain), postponed until Tuesday. Prebrag Nikolic (Yugoslavia) did not play. SOCCER Raewyn Vernall of Riccarton scored a hat-trick for her side in its 5-1 win over Woolston W.M.C. in the women’s division two soccer competition on Sunday. In a close scoring division three match Halswell downed Rangers, 5-3, with Halswell’s Margaret Hughes scoring three times.

Results.— Division one, section one— Imperial 0, Nomads A 7; Hornby 0, New Brighton A 3; Shamrock 0, Nomads B 4. Section two.—

Technical 1, Baisweil 1; University 2, New Brighton B 0; Rangers 0, Western 0. Division two. — Burwood 9, North Beach-Parklands 1; New Brighton 4, Hornby 0; Lyttelton 2, Dux 2; Woolston 1, Riccarton 5. Division three— Rangiora 0, Shamrock 4; Western 5, Cashmere 0; Rangers 3, Halswell 5; Riccarton 2, Nomads 6. ■ Division four. — Avonhead 0, New Brighton 0; Technical 0, Western 2; Rangers 0, University 1; Shamrock 0, Burndale 2. ROWING Several Canterbury rowers gained places at the New Zealand masters’ rowing competition at Lake Pupuke in Auckland last week-end. A team comprising Tony Corsbie, Edie Martin, Barry Jones and Peter McKeefry was second in the D grade four. Bernie Reid had a hectic schedule in the single sculls. He won the D grade singles, gained seconds in the A grade and C grade singles, and was third in the B grade singles. He was narrowly beaten in the A and C grade by a former New Zealand rowing great, Murray Watkinson. Reid is preparing to compete in the Australian masters in Sydney in six weeks. SQUASH NZPA London It was a bad day for New Zealand when all three players in action failed to progress beyond the qualify-

ing stages of the British open squash championships yesterday.

Rory Watt playing his first match of the tournament lost to Australia’s Mark Carlyon, 9-7, 9-4, 9-4. Jillian Oakley, after winning her first two qualifying rounds found Hugoline van Hoorn of the Netherlands too tough an opponent losing 9-2, 9-0, 9-7. Annette Owen put up some resistance before losing to England’s Linda Charman 97, 6-9, 9-2, 9-5. New Zealand’s hopes now rest with the fourth seeded Ross Norman, the defending champion and top seed, Susan Devoy, and Joanne Williams seeded ninth, who play their first matches today. TENNIS Results of Davis Cup group zone matches completed on Monday (home countries named first) were: European zone, group two, first round: Luxembourg beat Malta 5-0, Monaco beat Cyprus 5-0. African zone, group two, quarter-finals: Ghana beat Egypt 4-1, Morocco beat Algeria 3-1 (the second reverse singles was not played). American zone, group one, semi-finals: • Argentina beat Canada 3-0 (the two reverse singles were cancelled due to bad weather). Peru beat Brazil 3-2. Relegation playoff: Uruguay beat Ecuador 30 (the two reverse singles were cancelled due to bad weather).

American zone, group two, semi-finals: Bahamas beat Dominican Republic 5-0.

Asia-Oceania zone, group one, quarter-finals: Philippines beat China 4-1. Japan lost to South Korea, 3-2. Asia-Oceania zone, group two, quarter-finals: Thailand beat Bahrain 5-0; Sri Lanka beat Taiwan 3-2; Bangladesh beat Singapore 4-1; Kuwait lost to Pakistan 5-0.

' • Steve Guy of New Zealand beat the Swede, Johan Carlsson, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round of the South Korean tennis open on Monday. • The leading New Zealand women’s tennis player, Belinda Cordwell, has slipped two places to 39 in the latest Women’s International Tennis Association singles’ rankings. In the doubles she has moved up from 47 to 48. Other New Zealanders covered by the W.I.T.A. include Julie Richardson who is ranked at 114 in the singles; Claudine Toleafoa who is at 252; and Ruth Seeman at 292. GOLF Charteris Bay B, Akaroa A and Taitapu B have gained perfect points after two rounds of the Central Canterbury Patterson Cup (Peninsula zone) inter-club competition. Second round result from Akaroa: Charteris Bay B 8, Taitapu A 0; Charteris Bay A 4, Akaroa A 4; Akaroa B 5, Richmond Hill 3; Taitapu B 5, Kaituna 3.

Points: Charteris Bay B 2 (13>/ 2 ), Akaroa A 2 (11), Taitapu B 2 Kaituna 1 (8), Charteris Bay A >/ 2 (61/ 2 ), Akaroa A (6), Richmond Hill 0 (6), Taitapu A 0 (2>/ 2 ).